Dakota Access Pipeline Temporarily Halted — NoDAPL

As such, Tuesday’s protests will be focused outside Army Corps offices throughout the country, and at major banks financing construction of the pipeline.

Environmental attorney and Waterkeeper Alliance President Robert F. Kennedy Jr.is joining the protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, saying it’s important to “the future of humanity”.

ETP disputes that the pipeline would endanger the tribe and Warren noted earlier that Army Assistant Secretary Jo-Ellen Darcy had informed company officials and Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault that the corps’ previous permit decisions “comported with legal requirements”.

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“What we have got to tell Mr. Trump and everybody else: We are not going silently into the night”.

“No. They know how that story ends”, he said.

Others want the pipeline-and projects like it-stopped dead in their tracks. And it’s all about water, oil and heritage. Instead, they marched in defiance of the Dakota Pipeline initiative happening in the Great Plains.

Native American land and water rights have come direct opposition with the needs of energy companies to supply the nation with fossil fuels by building the $3.7 billion pipeline. And that’s what this fight has been about.

“We can not have oil in our water – no oil, no chemicals”, he said. And police did arrest some folks here today for that. There’s one thing I have learned the hard way.

“I think it’s far safer to put it 92 feet below the river which is what this pipeline will be”, she said.

JADE BEGAY: The movement’s growing.

The following day, November 15, a Unicorn Riot reporter spotted construction continuing despite the statement from the Army Corps. Zerkle said. “They are human beings just like us”.

Protesters are concerned about the potential for leaks and contamination but the companies behind the pipeline insist the risks are low. What is it they’re asking for? “I’m here to support alternative energy so we don’t have to have pipelines being built, destroying the Earth and polluting it”. Marchers went from Davis Park in Mountain View to the Boniface Parkway access gate of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, in which the Army Corp of Engineers building is located.

“What you’ll hear from tribal leaders is… tribes have unique government-to-government obligations”, says Gonzales. It seems like this dispute might outlast that administration. Her 10-year-old daughter was at the demonstration holding a sign right by her mother’s side.