Posted on 12/04/2016 4:39:01 PM PST by ColdOne
The Dakota Access Pipeline will not go ahead at the Standing Rock Indian reservation, it was announced Sunday.
Moments after the decision was announced Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council Chairman Harold Frazier told DailyMail.com that he was 'shocked' by the news, which he'd received from Jo-Ellen Darcy, United States Assistant Secretary of the Army.
The camp erupted into cheers as the news spread that the US Army Corps of engineers would not enforce an easement that would have allowed a pipeline to run under Lake Oahe half a mile south of their reservation, potentially affecting the tribe's drinking water and infringing on land rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I think that Trump's best move would be to work with Congress to quickly pass an act that provides an alternate route that is exempted from any lawsuits, is exempt from existing federal, state, or local planning laws, department or agency oversight, or permits, and that provides in stone a route and allows the State of North Dakota two weeks provide an alternate route that will replace the one in the federal act.
Any alternate North Dakotav route cannot be more that 25% longer than the one defined in the federal act and should also be as free of delays as the federal route was under the Federal act.
The pipeline will have to cross the Missouri River at some point.
And, if it must cross the river below the reservation, then it will have to go through the reservation. Currently, despite all the furore, it is not routed through reservation land.
Trump can resolve this issue immediately upon acceding to office. The appropriate permits will be issued. And any illegal protests will be handled appropriately.
Thanks thought it was that much...wasn’t sure.
Live 50 miles east of this fiasco. Word was the Rez would’ve been happy to allow the pipeline actually thru their land.....but for rumors of 15million dollars and a ridiculous percent of oil that ran thru it..........so the Commpany simply rerouted a few miles off the land.
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If any of us “locals” ventured on Army Corp. land, let alone defile it like these eco-terrorists are.......we’d already be in jail
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Another case of the Obama Admin flaunting written rule of law to the advantage of their “commrades”
Yesterday my son who is very passionate about this asked me to pray. I just sent him this story and asked whether he had any other prayer requests. :-D
Passionate for which side?? The deep green side, it sounds like.
It Should NOT have even Been any Question about it. It was THEIR LAND! PERIOD... While I may not agree with them in that I think it would have been better to allow the pipeline it does NOT Matter. This is what Land Ownership is about and they are Sovereign!
God Bless Them!
Let me get this straight, the current route of the pipeline does not run through the reservation?
If so Trump should push the approval and the Sioux Tribe should STFU.
>>The American Indians never got so far as inventing the wheel. Any sane ones would never want to go back to their ancestral standard of living.
Yep. That was my point exactly.
It’s not going through the Standing Rock Res.
Is this related to the Keystone pipeline or is this a separate pipeline?
Separate pipeline. This one had the OK from all. 92 feet underground. At some point obamas minions started to protest.
Then Trump should push it through.
America is tired of the deindustrialization and impoverishment of America.
Because of their nomadic life as they followied the buffalo herds, tribes on the Great Plains were constantly at war defending their hunting territory. Their descendants just wait for their government checks.
My prayer was that the issue would be resolved without any more confrontation.
Nope. The pipeline is 85% complete, and this was the last leg of it.
Oh well. Put it in freight tankers and haul it over the road and let the damn thing explode.
...potentially affecting the tribe’s drinking water....
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That is a big fat lie. Someone posted a link here recently to the extensive research that someone has done into this whole incident. This is an astroturf movement, and their drinking water is not threatened.
It isn't. The land in question is claimed by the tribe, but the government doesn't recognize the claim. They didn't win on the land ownership claim. They won on the potential harm claim. That claim is also ridiculous BTW since the government is already in the process of moving the intake for the reservation water supply far downstream due to the water being too shallow where it is now.
Tom Woods recently did a whole episode of his podcast on this topic.
Ep. 793 What Should Libertarians Think of the Dakota Access Pipeline?
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