Currently, the pipeline is about 85% complete; with the only work needing to be completed in North Dakota is the section under Lake Oahe.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmental activists claim the pipeline construction will pollute the nearby water sources and destroy the tribe’s sacred sites.
I still don’t understand how they think the pipeline will pollute the water.
Do they think it’s a trough that frequently spills over? Or do they think the pipeline leaks a lot? Because that’s simply just not true.
The tribe’s claim of the pipeline defiling sacred sites reminds me of the peyote argument that gave the Native American Church protection for its use by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. This claim of religious freedom, in the case of the pipeline, is justified by by pure fantasy. When policy is created on the basis of pure fantasy, we have tyranny.
The tribe is lying. Big time.