Stand With Standing RockStatement Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II “Today, the Department of Justice announced in federal court that it will be announcing the next steps on a “path forward” for the Dakota Access Pipeline crossing at Lake Oahe. The only possible path forward for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is a decision that denies the… Read more »
News
Norwegian Bank May Weigh Pullout From Dakota Pipeline
Law360, New York (November 7, 2016, 10:02 PM EST) — Norway’s DNB Bank ASA may reconsider its financial backing for Energy Transfer Partners’ $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline in response to Native Americans’ concerns about the project’s impact in North Dakota, the bank said Sunday. Clashes between police and pipeline protesters at a site near… Read more »
Why we take a stand at Standing Rock
“I realized that it is we Native Americans who were entrusted by the Great Spirit to speak for the protection of our relatives: the water, soil and the air. Further, we also speak for the protection of the many species of life, the protection of the sacred sites of our ancestors, sites where our people… Read more »
Environmentalists Target Bankers Behind Pipeline
“Environmental groups have also criticized the Dakota Access pipeline as outdated infrastructure with no place in a world racing to stave off the worst effects of climate change. The 1,172-mile pipeline is expected to carry nearly half a million barrels of crude oil daily out of the Bakken fields of North Dakota, according to the… Read more »
Bill McKibbon: There Is Still Time to Stop the Injustice at Standing Rock
by Bill McKibbon of 350.org, for newrepublic.com “The demand is straightforward: The Army Corps should not grant the final permit, the one required to put the pipeline under the Missouri River. If the company insists on finding a new route, then the whole project should undergo a rigorous environmental impact review (not the farcical, fast-tracked… Read more »
Tim Kaine: Looking at alternative routes for Dakota Access Pipeline is ‘right thing to do’
During an exclusive interview with Fusion’s Alicia Menendez on Saturday, Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine voiced hesitant support for President Obama’s view that there might be a way for the Dakota Access Pipeline—which has been the subject of mass protests from Native Americans who claim their water supply would be endangered and who have been… Read more »
This Land Is Our Land: All Sides Dig In as Pipeline Nears the River
by Jenni Monet for Yes! Magazine On the day a no-fly zone was lifted over Morton County and the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, Dean Dedman Jr. sent his drone into the sky and released some of the most dramatic aerial footage to come from the occupation. It was ?a shocking first look at the rapid… Read more »
For Native ‘water protectors,’ Standing Rock protest has become fight for religious freedom, human rights
by Jenni Monet for PBS Newshour. The tops of teepees could be seen in the distance, east of where a standoff between police and protesters was intensifying. Draped in a Pendleton blanket stood Casey Camp-Horinek praying in the middle of North Dakota Highway 1806. The Ponca woman, a respected traditionalist, was singing with a sacred… Read more »
New York Times: Time to Move the Standing Rock Pipeline
by the Editorial board of the New York Times: The Dakota and Lakota of the Standing Rock tribe would hardly be the first American Indians to pay the price for white people who want to move environmental hazards out of sight, out of mind and out of their water faucets. If the federal government shifts… Read more »
LA Times Editorial: Say no to the Dakota Access Pipeline
From The LA Times Editorial Board: The pipeline — designed to transport 470,000 barrels of oil a day from North Dakota to Illinois — has become a lightning rod for an array of issues, from historic tribal claims on the privately owned land through which the pipeline will run to the environmental risks of pipeline… Read more »