North Dakota Standing Rock
No Dakota Access Pipeline,” or #NoDAPL, emerged as a response to thousands of voices being silenced, and it was heard.
It is a term defining North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux’s, other First Nations’ and nonnative allies boundless efforts to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. It is a call to not allow their lands to be used for an oil pipeline which would cross 1,134 miles of land, including sacred sites as well as crossing water sources from the Missouri River and Lake Oahe. It is a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Crude Oil project that happens to include “access,” rather ironically, as those that it effects most have had so little over the course of American history, and would only be removed of more because of its creation. It is a stand against all of these things, and further, it is an echoing call for hope in the face of environmental destruction, dismissal of Native American rights and the rise of governmental “loop holes” which threaten water, livelihoods and the dignity of millions of people.
Indigenous peoples, allies and environmentalists would not let this happen. DAPL, also known as the Bakken Pipeline Project, was approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on July, 27th 2016. This pipeline would transport 470,000-570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota, across South Dakota, then from Iowa into Illinois, eventually being transported to larger markets across the midwest and east coast. After last year’s crossroads and halt of the creation of the Keystone XL pipeline, evaluation of the environmental conditions which could detrimentally affect hundreds to thousands of ecosystems and people was a top priority for Native peoples and environmental activists. The Keystone pipeline was determined to become a significant risk to the Nebraska Sandhills region’s fragile ecosystem; respectively, DAPL could spill into major water sources for millions of people – potentially having horrible consequences for the Missouri River – and would exist under 1 mile outside of the Standing Rock Reservation.
These pipelines bypassed the necessary National Environmental Policy Act environmental impact statements. Additionally, this project used a “loophole” in the Clean Water Act, as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers looked at several hundred waterways and the effect of the pipeline to each one as independent smaller projects, instead of one larger structure. This is an entirely inaccurate way to measure the effect of this pipeline on the environment, and it was a massive factor for why construction began to move forward despite the push back and the risks.
From the Jane Goodall Institute
It is a term defining North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux’s, other First Nations’ and nonnative allies boundless efforts to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. It is a call to not allow their lands to be used for an oil pipeline which would cross 1,134 miles of land, including sacred sites as well as crossing water sources from the Missouri River and Lake Oahe. It is a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Crude Oil project that happens to include “access,” rather ironically, as those that it effects most have had so little over the course of American history, and would only be removed of more because of its creation. It is a stand against all of these things, and further, it is an echoing call for hope in the face of environmental destruction, dismissal of Native American rights and the rise of governmental “loop holes” which threaten water, livelihoods and the dignity of millions of people.
Indigenous peoples, allies and environmentalists would not let this happen. DAPL, also known as the Bakken Pipeline Project, was approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on July, 27th 2016. This pipeline would transport 470,000-570,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota, across South Dakota, then from Iowa into Illinois, eventually being transported to larger markets across the midwest and east coast. After last year’s crossroads and halt of the creation of the Keystone XL pipeline, evaluation of the environmental conditions which could detrimentally affect hundreds to thousands of ecosystems and people was a top priority for Native peoples and environmental activists. The Keystone pipeline was determined to become a significant risk to the Nebraska Sandhills region’s fragile ecosystem; respectively, DAPL could spill into major water sources for millions of people – potentially having horrible consequences for the Missouri River – and would exist under 1 mile outside of the Standing Rock Reservation.
These pipelines bypassed the necessary National Environmental Policy Act environmental impact statements. Additionally, this project used a “loophole” in the Clean Water Act, as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers looked at several hundred waterways and the effect of the pipeline to each one as independent smaller projects, instead of one larger structure. This is an entirely inaccurate way to measure the effect of this pipeline on the environment, and it was a massive factor for why construction began to move forward despite the push back and the risks.
From the Jane Goodall Institute
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