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Obama: Controversial Dakota pipeline could be re-routed
BBC News ^ | 11/2/2016 | BBC

Posted on 11/03/2016 5:23:11 AM PDT by Nextrush

US President Barack Obama has said a controversial oil pipeline in North Dakota which has seen months of protest could be re-routed.

In an interview, the president said he would allow the conflict to play out for "several more weeks" to see if the issue could be resolved.

The controversial Dakota Access pipeline crosses an area near a Native American reservation.

Riot police armed with pepper spray clashed with protestors on Wednesday.

In an interview with NowThisNews, President Obama said his administration was monitoring the clashes closely.

"My view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of native Americans," he said, "and I think right now the Army Corps is examining whether there are ways to re-route this pipeline.".......

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: barackobama; donaldtrump; hillaryclinton; sarahpalin
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To: ecomcon

The roadsides in Arizona just sparkle from all of the broken glass that has been deposited over the years by broken booze bottles. (Ya dare NOT get caught with hootch on the DRY rez!)


21 posted on 11/03/2016 8:50:33 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Nextrush

It may not be the issue to you but it’s exactly the issue the NAs and their fellow travelers are pushing to media who are just dumbly spouting the narrative. The politicians then just stand by and count their 30 pieces of silver while getting none of the media attention as their cash machine is demonized after the check has cleared. You can be right as rain on the root cause yet won’t be heard because the established narrative is overcoming your message. IOW, you can’t just be right, you have to be responsive, too.


22 posted on 11/03/2016 9:01:57 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Someone commented on an earlier thread that the pipeline was originally planned to cross reservation land but the tribe wanted a ridiculous payment to allow it.

The project was re-routed.


23 posted on 11/03/2016 9:09:08 AM PDT by Rebelbase (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Rebelbase

Obama to reroute pipeline through Guam.


24 posted on 11/03/2016 9:11:36 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Elsie

They are OK with a defacto national police force acting on the ground in North Dakota.

I’ve been concerned about this notion I first saw in Baltimore when there was rioting police from other states including mine (PA) were moved in.

The National Guard soliders aren’t deployed to these situations anymore.

Just a militarized police force that operates across state lines.


25 posted on 11/03/2016 1:50:42 PM PDT by Nextrush (Remember Pastor Niemoller: Freedom is everybody's business)
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To: dynoman

The people who ‘owned the land’ before the private land owners who sold out to the energy industry were given a raw deal by the federal government in the past.

The Ft. Laramie treaty in the 1850’s gave all that land to the tribes.


26 posted on 11/03/2016 1:53:45 PM PDT by Nextrush (Remember Pastor Niemoller: Freedom is everybody's business)
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To: Nextrush

Ok so the private landowners need to give that land back to the tribes because they ripped it off and then “out to the energy industry”????

Sounds like more crap talk to me.


27 posted on 11/03/2016 3:21:05 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

I don’t know the final answer to all that.

I smell corrupt hypocritical politics behind the pipeline for sure and think we should at least listen to the concerns of the tribes and figure out the right way forward.


28 posted on 11/03/2016 7:12:20 PM PDT by Nextrush (Remember Pastor Niemoller: Freedom is everybody's business)
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