Dakota Pipeline

Entire Cities Are Cutting Ties With Wells Fargo For Its Support Of Dakota Pipeline

June 14, 2017 Ilana Novick, www.alternet.org Resist! Banks, Dakota Pipeline, Divestment, Wells Fargo

By Ilana Novick for AlterNet - Conservatives have long had a monopoly on the love of states' rights and local government, but in Trump's America, it's the left that has seized the opportunities of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called "laboratories of democracy." Even as the Dakota Access Pipeline inches toward completion, multiple cities including Seattle, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Raleigh, and Philadelphia have spoken with their wallets, severing ties with the oil pipeline-funding banks—in particular, Wells Fargo. On May 31, New York City became the latest city to join the effort, when Mayor Bill de Blasio and comptroller Scott Stringer announced that they will vote to stop New York City from entering into new contracts with Wells Fargo and strip the bank of its role as book-running manager for NYC's General Obligation and Transitional Finance Authority bond sales. Seattle was at the forefront of the movement back in February, when a coalition of activists convinced the city council to pass an ordinance that, as the Nation explained, "would effectively bar the local government from doing business with or investing in Wells Fargo in the future.

Keystone XL, Dakota Pipeline Green-Lighted In Trump Executive Actions

January 25, 2017 Phil McKenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Educate! Dakota Pipeline, Donald Trump, Executive Order, Keystone XL

By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News - President Trump uses early directive to clear the way for two major, controversial oil pipelines to get built, countering Obama decisions to the contrary. President Donald Trump issued executive actions on Tuesday to revive two highly contested oil pipelines previously blocked by the Obama administration. The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline had become litmus tests of President Obama's commitment to the fight against climate change as each project galvanized widespread grassroots opposition. Disputes over them had also created a bitter split over fossil fuel development that sharply divided Democrats from Republicans.

Legal Defense Fund For Sacred Stone Spirit Camp

September 3, 2016 Staff, www.fundrazr.com Resist! Dakota Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples

By Staff of Sacred Stone Solidarity Collective - Support the legal defense of warriors protecting land, water, and human rights. The Camp of the Sacred Stones is a spiritual and cultural camp on the Standing Rock Reservation resisting the Dakota Access oil pipeline thru non-violent direct action. Pipe is already in the ground and the company is preparing to drill a tunnel 92 feet below the bed of the Missouri River, over a mile in length, to install the Dakota Access pipeline.

Anti-Colonialists Against Billionaries (ACAB) Visits Pipeline Company

September 3, 2016 Staff, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Dakota Pipeline, Pipelines

By Staff of Earth First! Newswire - Before the first rays of sun hit the wretched Dallas, TX skyline, a crew of Anti-colonialists Against Billionaires (A.C.A.B.) paid a visit to the corporate offices of Energy Transfer Partners, a pipeline company owned by Texas billionaire Kelcy Warren. A.C.A.B. locked the parking garage gate shut and superglued the locks to the office doors with the understanding that whenever ETP employees are working, Mother Earth is suffering. A banner was left which read “Kelcy Warren Is An Asshole. Solidarity with S.R.S.T. [Standing Rock Sioux Tribe] No DAPL.”

Open Corruption: Pro Dakota Pipeline Senator Invests Bakken Oil

September 2, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Dakota Pipeline, Oil, Pipelines

By Steve Horn for Desmog - U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) has invested in in 68 different oil-producing wells in North Dakota named after an Indigenous tribe that opposes the Dakota pipeline U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) recently came out in support of the Dakota Access pipeline, the hotly contested Energy Transfer Partners-owned pipeline envisioned to move oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) from North Dakota's Bakken Shale basin.

Winona LaDuke On Dakota Access Pipeline: What Would Sitting Bull Do?

September 1, 2016 Winona LaDuke, www.yesmagazine.org Resist! Dakota Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

By Winona LaDuke for Yes Magazine - It’s 2016, and the weight of American corporate interests has come to the Missouri River, the Mother River. This time, instead of the Seventh Cavalry, or the Indian police dispatched to assassinate Sitting Bull, it is Enbridge and Dakota Access Pipeline. In mid-August, Standing Rock Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II was arrested by state police, along with 27 others, for opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. In the meantime, North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple called for more police support.

Dakota Access Pipeline Tribal Liaison Conflict Of Interest

August 31, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Dakota Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

By Steve Horn for Desmog - The Standing Rock tribe has filed a lawsuit against the U.S Army Corps of Engineers for using the controversial Nationwide Permit 12 to fast-track authorization of the hotly contested Dakota Access pipeline. Slated to carry oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) from North Dakota's Bakken Shale basin to Patoka, Illinois, the plaintiffs say not only was the Army Corps' permitting of the Energy Transfer Partners and Enbridge Corporation jointly owned pipeline a violation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Clean Water Act, but also a violation of the National Historic Preservation Act's (NHPA) Section 106.

Newsletter: For Justice, Unity & Inspiring Each Other

August 27, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Dakota Pipeline, North Dakota, Pipelines, Sioux, Water

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The latest chapter in the US war against Indigenous Peoples of this land is being fought by more than 90 tribes in North Dakota against a pipeline that threatens water, air and land, including sacred sites. Indigenous Peoples understand that the environment is to be respected and that to destroy it for corporate profit goes against nature and against ourselves. People's Climate March indigenous @Peoples_Climate People's Climate March indigenous @Peoples_Climate Indigenous Peoples have lived in what is now called North America for more than 10,000 years. They were the first human inhabitants. In comparison, the United States is not even 250 years old. Ever since colonizers from Europe came to these lands 600 years ago, Indigenous Peoples have paid a heavy price.

Judge Delays Injunction Ruling As Pipeline Protest Grows

August 26, 2016 Lisa Song, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Dakota Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines, Protests

By Lisa Song for Inside Climate News - Activists resisting a controversial oil pipeline in a growing protest camp in Cannon Ball, N.D. hoped to hear a federal judge side with them Wednesday by issuing an injunction stopping its construction. Instead, they learned they may have to wait up to two weeks to hear the judge's decision. In the meantime, the activists, who have formed a camp of largely Native American protesters that has swelled to more than 1,200 people, vowed to keep fighting.

Taking A Stand At Standing Rock

August 26, 2016 David Archambault II, www.nytimes.com Resist! Dakota Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines, Protests

By David Archambault II for The New York Times - Near Cannon Ball, N.D. — It is a spectacular sight: thousands of Indians camped on the banks of the Cannonball River, on the edge of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. Our elders of the Seven Council Fires, as the Oceti Sakowin, or Great Sioux Nation, is known, sit in deliberation and prayer, awaiting a federal court decision on whether construction of a $3.7 billion oil pipeline from the Bakken region to Southern Illinois will be halted. The Sioux tribes have come together to oppose this project, which was approved by the State of North Dakota and the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

State Pulls Relief Resources From Swelling Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Camp

August 24, 2016 Mike Nowatzki, www.bismarcktribune.com Resist! Dakota Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, North Dakota, Protests, South Dakota

By Mike Nowatzki for The Bismarck Tribune - CANNON BALL – North Dakota’s homeland security director ordered the removal of state-owned trailers and water tanks from the Dakota Access Pipeline protest campsite Monday, citing mounting reports of unlawful activity -- the latest involving lasers -- and the risk of damage. “Based on the scenario down there, we don’t believe that equipment is secure,” Homeland Security Division Director Greg Wilz said.

Dakota Pipeline Delayed By Protests & Court Hearing

August 21, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Dakota Pipeline, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Sioux

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams. Construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline has been temporarily halted as protests against the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile project continued this week at the North Dakota state capitol building as well as at a "spirit camp" at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers. According to the Associated Press, pipeline developers on Thursday agreed to pause construction until a federal court hearing next week in Washington, D.C.—but a spokeswoman for Energy Transfer Partners vowed the work would still be completed by the end of the year. Meanwhile, Indigenous and environmental activists continue to gather in opposition to the pipeline, with between 1500 and 2000 people currently engaged in active resistance. . . If candidate Clinton does nothing to address this issue yet continues into November promising Native Americans that she is our champion, then her words will be nothing but false promises—just more bombast, more white lies to Indians.

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