Posted on 10/26/2016 1:13:29 PM PDT by PIF
Here’s what’s happening:
Seattle Times environment reporter Lynda Mapes and Times photographer Alan Berner are on the ground through the end of the week to report on protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline near Bismarck, N.D. Hundreds of protesters have joined the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their effort to block construction of the pipeline they say threatens water supplies and sacred sites. American Indian tribes in Washington state on Tuesday called on President Obama to overhaul the way the federal government consults with tribes on fossil-fuel export and other projects. Also on Tuesday, the Obama administration asked for the second time that Energy Transfer Partners stand down on the Dakota Access Pipeline, to no avail. Read our primer on what’s going on with the oil pipeline. And here’s what we’re reading about the project and the region’s history.
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The Blackfoot Tribe in MT invited the oil companies to drill on their reservation.
And now the “concerned” are flocking to support their poor downtrodden reservation wunderkind - brothers and sisters who have suffered 520 years of oppression -— etc
Bkmk
These Communist protesters have no right to block this construction project.
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