Dakota Pipeline Opponents Speak with Forked Tongue

American Thinker ^ | December 2, 2016 | Daniel John Sobieski

[Kaslin]

Having lost both scientifically and politically with the Keystone XL pipeline, deemed safe by Hillary Clinton’s State Department and certain to be approved by a President Trump sworn to develop American energy, opponents of fossil fuels have enlisted the support of American Indians. Opponents are claiming that the Dakota Access Pipeline which, like Keystone XL, will bring oil from the rich Bakken oil field in North Dakota to American markets, will violate and pollute sacred tribal lands.

That they are on slippery ground with the facts has been explained by the Heritage Foundation:

This 1,172-mile Dakota Access pipeline will deliver as many as 570,000 barrels of oil a day from northwestern North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to connect to existing pipelines in Illinois. It will do this job far more safely than the current method of transporting it by 750 rail cars a day.

The protesters say they object to the pipeline’s being close to the water intake of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. However, this should be of no concern as it will sit approximately 92 feet below the riverbed, with increased pipe thickness and control valves at both ends of the crossing to reduce the risk of an incident, which is already low.

As a result of the fracking revolution and shale oil boom, oil train shipments have increased, particularly on a railroad shipping oil from North Dakota’s Bakken formation owned by billionaire and friend of Obama, Warren Buffett.

[Trump-a-licious]

Title should have been... “speakem’ with fork tongue”

[Elsie]

How DARE you post something with factual data!

The Great Spirit will now touch you with his noodly appendage!!

[blueunicorn6]

Let me tell you how this will turn out under Obama.

The pipeline will be built.

The Indians, a sovereign nation within our borders dependent on American Taxpayer money, will be bought off with some more American Taxpayer money so they will vote Democrat.

The lawyers will win. Lawyers win by stuffing their pockets full of money.

I don’t know how things will go under a Trump Administration.

[Mr. K]

First it was ancient indian burial ground, then it was their soverighn land- when those both turn out to be lies it became “water protectors”

There are ALREADY hundreds of pipelines crossin waterways, and there has never been an accident.

And let’s say there was a catastrophic leak of oil- they would shut down the pipeline and cleanup would be minimal.

There would be much less damage than there was when THE GOVERNMENT morons dug a hole into the side of a containment reservoir and released millions of gallons of waste into the river.

[deport]

The orginal route when north of Bismark and the Sioux lands. Route was changed to
the south of Bismark which put it going thru the unceded Sioux territory.

Click for Wikipedia article and maps

[21twelve]

This section of the pipeline is along an existing easement that has an existing natural gas pipeline. As these protestors DRIVE to the site, they must cross hundreds of existing pipelines. Old, decrepit lines ready to burst and spew their black death at any moment. But they don’t seem to have a problem with them. (Maybe I shouldn’t give them any ideas.)

The left’s way is to make everything a crisis - moving from one to the next. Hey - at least it gives the college kids something to do.

[snoringbear]

“Title should have been... “speakem’ with fork tongue”

For sure. Pipe lines are by far the safest and cheapest environmental method to move oil. Pull up a map of the Ogalla Aquifer pipe lines map and you will see hundreds of pipe lines cris-crossing it. Many of these lines go back fifty years or more and the aquifer remains unpolluted.

[Bringbackthedraft]

I have a feeling we have a Wampam talks, no body walks situation. You run pipe through sacred grounds, you bring much wampam kimosabe.

[tuffydoodle]

I was watching Judge Judy the other day and a defendant was describing how she has any money. She said she gets a monthly $2500 from the government and recently got a $50,000 lump sum. Why, asks Judge Judy? Because she’s native American. What the freaking heck??? She’s not disabled, she was a young, strong woman. Does our government think they are doing these people any favors by handing them money for nothing? All it’s done is turn them into parasites, drug addicts and drunks.

[tuffydoodle]

I’m guessing the pipeline company refused to give them massive amounts of money to go through the reservation so the tribe refused to let them dig there. The pipeline company went around the reservation so now the Indians are claiming environmental issues. Had they got a big payout for doing nothing, they would have kept their mouths shut.