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The Army Corps of Engineers responded by saying it did consult extensively with affected tribes, including the Standing Rock Sioux, but they could not identify any specific cultural sites that would be damaged by the pipeline.
That might or might not be the case with the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe must have a say with regard to a $3.8 billion oil pipeline that could disturb sacred sites and impact drinking water for 8,000 tribal members, representatives of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues said Wednesday.
“The DA pipeline’s path poses a threat of irreparable harm to (1) the tribe’s primary source of clean water and (2) sacred sites, which fall under the protection of the treaty between the federal government and the tribe”. At the end of the hearing the same day, the U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg said he would issue ruling on September 9. Dakota Access previously estimated the cost to move construction crews and equipment around the 15 parcels at more than $500,000 for each. We owe them more than an apology: at the very least an equitable redress of grievances, and our honor and respect.
We can do better and we need to do better.
“We are standing with our relatives in a peaceful manner to express our concern”, said JoDe Goudy, Chairman of the Yakima Nation. They are standing up for all of us. We stand with our wives and our children and our grandparents. “We must stop the destruction of the earth”. As far as they are concerned, the price is too high. Actresses Susan Sarandon and Shailene Woodley – both diehard Sanders backers during the Democratic presidential primary – headlined a rally against the pipeline in Washington this week.
“We’ve seen the success our friends from Washington state have had in their battles to protect treaty rights against the transport of fossil fuels”, Archambault continued. “This is all connected”.
Civil disobedience is another important tactic those who called themselves “protectors, not protestors” will use in the future.
They appealed to him to reject the project – as he did with the Keystone XL pipeline.
The tribe is challenging the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to grant permits for Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, which crosses through four states, including near the reservation that straddles the North Dakota-South Dakota border. Inside, Judge James Boasberg considered the case of the Standing Rock Sioux, who have filed to halt pipeline production and are asking the U.S. to honor long-ago enacted treaties protecting Native lands and water.
Energy Transfer Partners announced the Dakota Access pipeline in 2014, a few days after Dalrymple urged industry and government officials to build more pipelines to keep pace with the state’s oil production, which is second only to Texas’.
Members of three Eastern Montana tribes have pledged support and funding to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which is protesting the installation of a pipeline near Bismarck, North Dakota. More than 20 people have been arrested.
“My grandma told me a long time ago there were camps along the river near Mobridge, and it’s kind of like that now”, Iron Eyes said.
“Our native warriors out there are trying to protect water for everyone”. And the word “resistance” is being used.
“There’s a line to cross of where you let them do something for their land and then where am I an ally to come in and help them?” Can you verify? Thank you.
About 30 environmental groups, including the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, signed a letter to President Barack Obama, slamming the Dakota Access Pipeline as “yet another example of an oil pipeline project being permitted without public engagement or sufficient environmental review”. We are part flower and grass and tree.
“We are also a resilient people who have survived unspeakable hardships in the past, so we know what is at stake now”. “And our culture, our heritage is what has made us warriors”. Like Bellecourt, he was at Wounded Knee when natives led a 71-day standoff in the town on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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“The leaders of the protest have asked that protests remain peaceful”. “We’re not going anywhere”.
