Posted on 11/23/2016 8:24:08 AM PST by rktman
The American Indian tribe arguing the Dakota Access Pipeline would leak oil in its water source finalized a years-long plan to move its water source 70 miles downstream of the project.
The Standing Rock Sioux tribe orchestrated a months-long battle against the pipeline due in large part to worries about contamination of their primary water source.
The decision to plant a water treatment plant several miles downwind of the pipeline’s location, environmental analysts argue, may dispel concerns associated with the project. The relocation was years in the making.
Standing Rock currently gets its water 20 miles away from the so-called DAPL.
The tribe maintains its opposition to the DAPL, even though the distance from the pipeline to the new plant would dramatically reduce widespread contamination risks.
“Just because the new intake is 70 miles away doesn’t mean our water is still not threatened,” David Archambault, Standing Rock chairman, said when asked what effect the new water plant would have on the pipeline.
Environmental protesters and members of Standing Rock also believe the pipeline’s construction would trample on tribal lands and destroy artifacts. Cultural surveys show the pipeline route does not cut through the tribe’s reservation or tribal lands.
The company behind the line’s construction – Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) – is currently weaving its way through the courts, regulatory morass, and environmentalist protests to build the multi-billion-dollar pipeline. It’s expected to bring 470,000 barrels of Bakken crude oil per day from western North Dakota to southern Illinois.
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This is such a red herring. The oil already crosses the Missouri River - via five oil trans a day, which is a far riskier way to transport oil.
No it won’t because they want to eliminate fossil fuel use...its not about water at all.
They won’t be happy until all live in cities and ride buses everywhere.
Why not upstream?
So run an intake upstream of the pipe.
But that doesn’t matter. It’s not about the water supply, it’s about having an excuse to “fight the Man”. Protesters have decided it’s “their land”, and that they’re “peaceful” regardless of their violence. It’s a cause for those desiring a cause. It’s suffering for those who want to be victims. And not a d@mn one of them will stop using gasoline powered vehicles to reduce the need for such a pipeline.
And how do they propose to power those cities and buses? Rainbow Unicorn Farts?
No shortage of cars and pickups at the protest.
I am not sure how it could be done, but the Indians need to have their sovereignty taken away.
Pen, phone. At least that’s the way the lyin’ king has been getting around nearly everything.
This won’t fix a fake problem. This whole thing is as manufactured as the religion of Climate Change.
This pipeline will not leak unless catastrophically breached by man or nature. And even in that event, the flow can be simply shut off.
As usual the protests are about the money. Just a simple case of ‘insurance’.
Like I said, some big chief ain’t gettin’ the “beads” he/she thinks they deserve.
You are wrong. They won't ever be happy. If they get their way here they will just move on to the next cause du jour to get enraged about. They are professional rage monkeys. They are simply enraged bitter people. They are enraged because no one else acknowledges their obvious superiority.
Correction: they won’t be happy until they live in a few futuristic enclaves with all the perks, while we live in caves and teepees within fenced perimeters.
They’ve learned a lot from their mentors in the casino world.
“Sure is a nice pipeline you’ve got there it would be a shame if something were to “happen” to it.”
As always, FOLLOW THE MONEY, it is about the money and who isn’t getting their “share”. This is a shakedown, nothing else.
But the mindless minions will be out there in their petro based foul weather gear protesting the unfair treatment etc. Ungrateful snots I do believe.
You have accurately described the distopian workd of A Brave New World....and I bet you intended to do so.
Actually, they described that model themselves back in the mid-70s ...
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