Eight tribes from Washington state have joined the protest recently.
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The company building the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline says in a court filing that it opposes the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s request for a temporary work stoppage in North Dakota.
It’s an historic moment, and with the support of more than 90 tribes, it’s the largest gathering of its kind in more than a century.
Lawsuits are pitting Native American tribes and environmental activists against the Energy Transfer Partners pipeline company.
“We hope the governor is listening and takes action immediately to restore law and order to this situation”, Johnson said.
“I’m not here for a photo op”, Stein said. The sheriff’s department said no one was arrested.
Democracy Now! news anchor Amy Goodman and her TV crew filmed one of the pipeline workers, wearing a hard hat, throwing a protester down on the ground, which spurred several other demonstrators to run over the dirt mounds being bulldozed.
Stein spray-painted the the blade of a bulldozer. We were constructing according to our plans.
As Tuesday’s protest got under way, some children back at the camp played basketball as adults unloaded a steady flow of donated clothing, water, food and other supplies.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said Tuesday that work will temporarily stop between State Highway 1806 and 20 miles east of Lake Oahe, but will continue west of the highway because he believes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lacks jurisdiction on private land.
Dakota Access, an oil pipeline company, employed private security guards who used dogs and pepper spray against Native American protesters in Morton County, North Dakota, on September 3 (video below).
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“We want to shut down this pipeline”. “This is your modern-day David versus Goliath”.
