The Indigenous Peoples of the Sioux nations and their allies are fighting to protect the water for everyone.
Communities are joining to end irrational private profiteering interests when they conflict with rational life-sustaining public interests. When private corporate decisions lead us to the brink of our planet becoming uninhabitable those entities simply cannot be left in decision-maker roles.
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From Democracy Now!
“On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline’s construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield to Illinois. The project has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and members of nearly 100 more tribes from across the U.S. and Canada…..
Democracy Now! was on the ground at Saturday’s action and brings you this report”
The United Nations stepped in and said that according to a declaration that President Obama signed, the Sioux, who this land belongs to, need to have a say in whether the pipeline happens.
AP: “The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe must have a say with regard to a $3.8 billion oil pipeline that could disturb sacred sites and impact drinking water for 8,000 tribal members, representatives of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues said Wednesday.”
“States shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples concerned in order to obtain their free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.”
and last from USUncut:
“Enbridge Energy Partners is pulling out of the equally controversial Sandpiper pipeline in northern Minnesota. The Sandpiper Pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline would both have originated from North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields. Ground hadn’t yet been broken on the Sandpiper Pipeline, but the Dakota Access Pipeline was expected to open by the end of the year.”