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The protest and legal battle over an oil pipeline being constructed near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is drawing varying reactions from the candidates running for North Dakota’s sole seat in the House of Representatives. I’m talking Citibank. I’m talking Wells Fargo.
Activists from People of Albany United for Safe Energy (PAUSE) are taking action to show their support for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. Protesters say the risk of contamination to fresh water is too great, and that the project will disturb sacred sites.
Protestors voice their support of the Standing Rock Sioux’s fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline also would cross some of the tribe’s burial grounds.
“With the US government siding in favor of Native American protests against a key North Dakota pipeline, local oil producers and shippers are facing the possibility of greater delays in getting a quick route to ship oil to the Gulf of Mexico”, Reuters reported, regarding the 40-mile stretch of the pipeline through North Dakota.
“It’s also good business to protect our water resources because we don’t have energy security unless we have water security”. “Water is sacred, water is what everyone needs, not just us”.
“I know a lot of native places have already been messed up”, Laban said.
Sanders called an end to the exploitation of the Native American people the number-one issue of the day.
But most of all, Edwards said, this gathering will be remembered as a historic event that brought indigenous and water protection issues to the forefront.
The activists’ petitions were delivered today to a Public School Employees’ Retirement System (PSERS) board of trustees meeting in Mechanicsburg.
“We must not allow that to happen”, Sanders said.
Also on Friday, a Bismarck judge dissolved the temporary restraining order on protesting that had been levied against Archambault, Tribal Council Member Dana Yellow Fat, and several other tribal members. “Our oil and gas sector lending represents less than 1% of our total lending portfolio”.
The Dakota Access dispute is cresting 10 months after President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada Corp.’s plans for the Keystone XL pipeline, which had faced opposition in Nebraska.
Mark Charles, a Navajo Christian and Washington correspondent for Native News Online, puts it this way: “The way most Natives feel about the land where they’re living is the way most European Christians (American Christians of European origin) feel about Israel. Why?”
In a conference call with the Department of Justice, Department of Interior and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the delegation and the governor asked for both federal funding and additional law enforcement personnel.
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FARGO, N.D. (AP) A federal appeals court has ordered a halt to construction of another section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota.
