Oil pipeline protesters disrupt construction sites

Demonstrators in Boone, Iowa, and North Dakota have been arrested during protests within the last month. “This is a moral responsibility for me”.

In fact, once state and federal officials approved the project, known as the Dakota Access Pipeline, earlier this year, Boone became a rush of last-minute activity – with community leaders like Kurt Phillips, head of business chamber, phoning local hotels, trailer parks and campgrounds to find living quarters for the onslaught of workers expected to arrive. Cladoosby plans to join them in North Dakota again next week.

On Tuesday, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation chairman Gary Burke wrote a strong letter of support to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, who is protesting and opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline that would cross near their reservation and put their resources at risk.

The Sioux argue the pipeline violates federal laws, threatens water quality and sacred sites.

Authorities cut free a man who bound himself to construction equipment and arrested at least two protesters Wednesday during a rally near Highway 6 outside St. Anthony, North Dakota.

“The pipeline would adversely affect not only the security and access to drinking water of the Sioux and millions of people living downstream of the Missouri River, but it would also destroy archaeological, historical and sacred sites of the Sioux”, the United Nations body said in its statement.

This report includes information from the Associated Press.

“This is a corporation that is coming forward and just bulldozing through without any concern for tribes”.

Many protestors that gathered for Saturday’s demonstration say they will not stop until their voice is heard and action is taken to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from further construction.

When completed, the $3.8 billion, 1,168-mile underground pipeline will carry up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil daily from North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields to a distribution hub in IL.

On Wednesday protestor from across Iowa and the nation made their way to various locations where Dakota Access is building the Bakken Oil Pipeline. The line, which can carry 470,000 barrels a day, is projected to be in service in the fourth quarter.

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is a planned 1,168-mile long crude oil pipeline with the capacity to transport almost 570,000 barrels of oil each day from North Dakota to IL. Activists are trying to reboot the movement that helped bring down the Keystone XL pipeline. So supply for the pipeline, which could ship nearly half of Bakken production, will probably fall as it’s coming online, he said. Proponents say it is the most efficient way for crude oil transportation and will cause an economic boost.

The tribe’s request coincided with a declaration of emergency across several counties by North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple, as well as unsubstantiated claims by a local sheriff that pipe bombs, molotov cocktails and other potentially risky implements had been spotted.