Posted on 12/03/2016 8:34:52 AM PST by Lorianne
U.S. military veterans were building barracks on Friday at a protest camp in North Dakota to support thousands of activists who have squared off against authorities in frigid conditions to oppose a multibillion-dollar pipeline project near a Native American reservation.
Veterans volunteering to be human shields have been arriving at the Oceti Sakowin camp near the small town of Cannon Ball, where they will work with protesters who have spent months demonstrating against plans to route the Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, organizers said.
The Native Americans and protesters say the $3.8 billion pipeline threatens water resources and sacred sites.
Some of the more than 2,100 veterans who signed up on the Veterans Stand for Standing Rock group's Facebook page are at the camp, with hundreds more expected during the weekend. Tribal leaders asked the veterans, who aim to form a wall in front of police to protect the protesters, to avoid confrontation with authorities and not get arrested.
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I wonder if there is oil under reservation land?
There is a million miles of pipe criss-crossing this country. Building a pipeline is not rocket science. They seldom cause problems, and when they do, you fix them. Fixing them is not rocket science either.
I don’t know anything about North Dakota reservations, but a recent report on reservations elsewhere showed a younger generation with nothing to live for, gang-banging and using meth, with essentially no jobs and no hope for a job without leaving the reservation. With that in mind, the North Dakota oilfields would be the best thing that ever happened to small town kids and reservation kids growing up out in the boon docks. They don’t have to leave home to have a career that pays well and has upward potential. Those jobs are being brought right to their door.
So one of the organizers appears to be a "writer," not a veteran.
And why am I not surprised that this self-described writer is the son of perfumed prince retired U.S. Army General Wesley Clark?
It is just a supposition. But there’s something about this whole deal that doesn’t feel right. I would also question who in the Obama administration benefits financially from the plan. Having grown up within a few miles of the formerly iridescent and flammable Cuyahoga River I know industry isn’t always wise and benign and concerns about the environment aren’t necessarily nonsense.
Exactly.
For me its the opposite. Obama could legally stop Keystone and he did. He couldn’t legally stop this one, so he is deploying mobs.
We already know how mobs are deployed by the obamists.
Its left-fist-right-fist tactics. Use the law when you can. Use mobs when the law doesn’t work for you. Banana republic stuff.
Trust me, there are lefty veterans, lots of them.
An extreme example would be Kerry. By the way, did you know he served in Vietnam?
Appreciate the feedback and hope my “reservations” are unfounded. I certainly understand and agree that transport by pipeline is hugely safer than by road or rail. Don’t know why it’s necessary or advisable to go to the extra trouble and expense of routing under a lake, in a geologically highly active region, but maybe it is.
Not sure but I think the photo is of one of the refineries in Billings, Montana.
You might well be exactly right. But considering the fact that legality has never been an obstacle to Obama or the EPA doing as they please I guess I’m still puzzled over what makes this project different.
Proposed route of the pipeline in regards to the Sioux Reservation and the unceded
territory of the Sioux Nation. Orginally the pipeline was to go north of Bismark and the
Sioux. It was rerouted south of Bismark and across the unceded territory of the Sioux.
“If they are simply protesting the location, then maybe it should be moved.”
pipeline exclusively crosses private property, none of which is reservation land, and none of which has historical or “sacred” injun sites on it. In fact, pipeline is being installed adjacent to existing pipeline on existing right-of-way.
Nothing more than a demonstration of alt-left idiocy.
I know one of these “caring” protestors. She actually has mineral rights in North Dakota and is collecting a big fat monthly oil check. How pathetic.
All this to so that Warren Buffett’s train line can have a monopoly transporting oil. Its not like the oil just stays in North Dakota. It goes south on way or another. Its just a matter of how efficiently it gets there.
Legality has never been an obstacle. Exactly. Use the law when you can, use other means when you can’t. We know they organized the riots that appeared in the Trayvon episode, and in Ferguson, those were directed by Justice. We know the riots in Dallas and Chicago were paid for by Clinton. We know this mob is being directed by Soros who is Obama’s godfather.
Get used to it.
North Dakota is already crisscrossed with pipelines, and the whole country is crisscrossed with them. This is no different. A month after its in the ground you won’t even know its there anymore than you notice any of the others.
Right now this oil has a $20 a barrel cost added to it because it has to be railroaded to market... the owner of the railroad is Warren Buffett, Obama backer. That might have something to do with it. And shale oil has changed the paradigm, allowing the US to drive the price of oil rather than the Saudis. That might have something to do with it. And Soros is looking for an issue to drive the mobs he traditionally uses when he overthrows governments... that might have something to do with it.
Working overseas I’ve seen how leftists use the tribes as cannon fodder for political action. This looks very similar.
That refinery is the Dickinson Prairie Refinery, diesel, which was recently
sold to Tosoro and has been operating at a loss.
(not you Lorianne!)
Correction. s/b Dakota Prairie Refinery operating in the Dickinson area.
They are not a threat. One breaks, you fix it. Not a big deal. Especially when its a liquids line.
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