BAKKEN OIL PIPELINE
The fracked oil pipeline is about as long
as the Keystone XL and equally controversial.
RT America Reports August 12, 2016
Arrests made as Native American tribes,
landowners protest Keystone XL rival
Construction on the controversial Bakken
pipeline is set to begin any day now, forcing both landowners and Native
American tribes in North Dakota
to intensify their desperate attempt to protect their land from eminent domain
laws.
Twelve people were arrested at a Sioux tribes
protest Thursday after they staged a peaceful protest to keep pipeline
construction off of their lands. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
are concerned that the pipeline could potentially contaminate their drinking
water and damage sacred lands.
Continue reading at
https://www.rt.com/usa/355613-standing-rock-bakken-legal-fight/
WATCH / LISTEN
TRIBE POINTS TO VIOLATIONS OF
FEDERAL LAWS
Pipeline draws parallels to dark times for Native Americans YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5cbVc6zJW0
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Tribes And
Landowners Are Still Fighting The Bakken Pipeline
Across The Midwest
ThinkProgress Alejandro Davila Fragoso
Aug 12, 2016
Climate Reporter @ThinkProgress. Email me: adavila@thinkprogress.org
North
Dakota Law Enforcement Just Moved Into A Native American Pipeline Protest
The fracked
oil pipeline is about as long as the Keystone XL, and equally controversial.
An oil pipeline poised to run through four Midwestern states
may have all the permits it needs for construction, but
Native Americans and Iowa
landowners facing eminent domain continue to fight the Bakken
pipeline with protests and court injunctions.
On Thursday Sioux tribe members continued for a second day
to block workers at a Bakken
pipeline construction site near where the Cannonball and Missouri rivers meet, prompting law
enforcement to move in. This is an escalation from months of spirit camp protests camps where tribe members pray as a
group for hours at a time.
Continue reading at https://thinkprogress.org/fight-over-bakken-pipeline-continues-5f7a5dee451e#.mn0j22so8
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Landowners take Bakken
fight higher
Oskaloosa Herald Aug 10, 2016
SKALOOSA The motion, if granted, would halt pipeline construction
spanning multiple counties until pending lawsuits have been resolved. The
prosecution argues The Iowa Utilities Board
misinterpreted Iowa law, specifically the 2006
law designed to protect Iowa farmland and the United States
Constitution. Continue reading at
http://www.oskaloosa.com/news/local_news/landowners-take-bakken-fight-higher/article_be43754e-5f43-11e6-ab4a-f70b37bb3f3f.html