Neil Young protests Dakota Access pipeline with new song

A large crowd of Native Americans gathered to take a stand against the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline that would transport crude oil from North Dakota to IL.

The project would stretch 1,172 miles over four states once complete, transporting oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formations to IL. “This pipeline violates our treaty rights and our human rights, and it violates the UN’s own Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But the oil companies and the government of the United States have failed to respect our sovereign rights”, Archambault told the commission in a video shared by the tribe.

Industry leaders said moving forward with the Dakota Access pipeline is central to keeping the US shale oil sector a strong component of the national economy.

International Indigenous Youth Council of Standing Rock and Oceti Sakowin Youth announced Monday that they had asked Sen.

A panel of three judges stated that it needs more time to consider the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s request for an emergency injunction in the recent ruling.

Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren told employees the pipeline is almost 60 per cent complete and that “concerns about the pipeline’s impact on the local water supply are unfounded”.

The protests have also opened a wider national debate on corporations’ ability to encroach on Native American lands.

“We cannot allow our drinking water to be poisoned so a handful of fossil fuel companies can make more in profits”, he said in an emailed statement. “We want to raise awareness about how they are trying to go through sacred grounds”. The Army Corps of Engineers said it did not oppose the suspension.

The Obama administration directed the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior on September 9 to shelve the project until the government can determine the effects it will have on the environment.

Kirchmeier said the probe is focused not only on protesters but also whether the pipeline’s private security personnel with guard dogs were licensed and whether Dakota Access destroyed sacred sites as Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials claim.

Archambault told NBC News that the trip to Geneva was facilitated by the Indian Law Resource Center, a USA -based non-governmental organization that has consultative status at the Council.