I think that Trump's best move would be to work with Congress to quickly pass an act that provides an alternate route that is exempted from any lawsuits, is exempt from existing federal, state, or local planning laws, department or agency oversight, or permits, and that provides in stone a route and allows the State of North Dakota two weeks provide an alternate route that will replace the one in the federal act.
Any alternate North Dakotav route cannot be more that 25% longer than the one defined in the federal act and should also be as free of delays as the federal route was under the Federal act.
Live 50 miles east of this fiasco. Word was the Rez would’ve been happy to allow the pipeline actually thru their land.....but for rumors of 15million dollars and a ridiculous percent of oil that ran thru it..........so the Commpany simply rerouted a few miles off the land.
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If any of us “locals” ventured on Army Corp. land, let alone defile it like these eco-terrorists are.......we’d already be in jail
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Another case of the Obama Admin flaunting written rule of law to the advantage of their “commrades”
It’s not going through the Standing Rock Res.
It isn't. The land in question is claimed by the tribe, but the government doesn't recognize the claim. They didn't win on the land ownership claim. They won on the potential harm claim. That claim is also ridiculous BTW since the government is already in the process of moving the intake for the reservation water supply far downstream due to the water being too shallow where it is now.
Tom Woods recently did a whole episode of his podcast on this topic.
Ep. 793 What Should Libertarians Think of the Dakota Access Pipeline?