You Need Oil to Protest Oil(HIPPO-CRITZ)

americanthinker.com ^ | 10/17/2016 | Andra Constantin

[rktman]

In July of 2016, the United States Army Corps of Engineers approved an oil pipeline construction project to transport crude oil via 30-inch-diameter pipes 90 feet below private lands and federal waterways. Dubbed the Dakota Access Pipeline, it originates from the fossil fuel-abundant Bakken shale formation in North Dakota. The DAPL is one of hundreds of underground pipelines safely and unobtrusively providing a service all across the continental USA. It marks an investment and upgrade in infrastructure, as it runs parallel to the Northern Border Pipeline, which set the framework followed by the DAPL, when NPB commenced operations in 1982.

While delayed by destructive protesters encouraged by an unethical executive intervention over judicial authority from President Obama, the pipeline is mostly complete. Its route runs 1,172 miles from North Dakota to southern Illinois. The benefits of a pipeline are easy to understand, representing economic independence from foreign sources; economic stimulus by providing thousands of direct and indirect jobs, union and non-union; and hundreds of millions of dollars in local and state income and property taxes. It also relieves overburdened railways and the associated costs to grain farmers, providing the most efficient and an environmentally safer way to transport sweet crude over the current rail method.

[rktman]

Some chief ain't getting the wampum he/she thinks they deserve. I guarantee the majority of the assclowns participating in this "action" have no clue as to it's beginning and end. All they hear is "White man screwing the Indians again." and that's all they need. Useful idiots on display.

[minnesota_bound]

90 feet below ground. Why so deep?
Plus I hate to be the one working at the bottom!

[Laser_Ray]

Kinda like how you need to live in a Christian society that values women immensely (perhaps too much even) in order to pull stunts like marching topless with a goal of “Breasts not Bombs” in support of a terrorist nation while your own is fighting a war with it.

Pull that kind of crap anywhere else, you’ll get tossed into a looney bin or stuffing an ice pack down your bra and popping aspirin for the well-deserved pounding you got. If you’re less lucky you’re family will marry you off to the first man they can find and if you live in a primitive culture you might be killed.