ND gov: We won’t block supplies to protesters

However, the corps several days later said they would not evict people.

Among the veterans will be former Marine Jade Emilio Snell of Billings. “We can not allow the authority of the United States government to be harnessed in the pursuit of corporate profits at the expense of public health, safety and cultural heritage. We want the entire public to know that this is not a safe place”. But the protesters are saying they aren’t going anywhere. “My main objective is to make sure that everybody that’s going in there, comes out O.K”. “This is ridiculous in our own country”.

He believes the veterans coming to Standing Rock have been misinformed and should not be supporting a movement that has “broken laws, destroyed property and attacked law enforcement”.

The willingness of our veterans to join in on a battle after serving is admirable and hopefully impactful. They plan to round up thousands of demonstrators at camps located on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land as a means for protecting organizers.

The proposal includes a plan to route the pipeline beneath a stretch of the Missouri River in North Dakota. The agency says it has no plans of “forcible removal”.

Herr said authorities will be “passively” enforcing the governor’s order, meaning there will not be a roadblock, but anyone entering the area will be notified that they are trespassing and penalized.

“I bought a one-way ticket”, he said.

“Although North Dakota seems far away from us, like really if we all stand up for what’s right in our backyard then I think we can build stronger communities”, Misch said. “This is our land and they can’t remove us”, protester Isaac Weston, who is an Oglala Sioux member from South Dakota, told The Associated Press. We will continue to monitor DAPL and see exactly how the presence of our veterans plays out.

The Army Corps of Engineers, at President Barack Obama’s direction, moved to momentarily halt the project again despite having reviewed more than 1,200 pages of environmental and cultural analysis over the past three years, as well as consulting with 55 American Indian tribes almost 400 times.

“Same thing with the treaties”, he stresses.

“. The American people must feel secure in their constitutional protections, and as their elected representatives, we urgently need information on what actions are being taken to de-escalate this situation”. Attorney Lauren Regan with Eugene based Civil Liberties Defense Center says a small group tried to move one of the vehicles.

“The message many of (the tribal elders) had for us was that this wasn’t just about their land and their water”, Finkel said. “And I’m exhausted of the treaties being broken”.