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It's difficult out here at the #NoDAPL camp. Peaceful water protectors are surrounded on all sides by the army Corps, ND Law Enforcement, National Guard, and the BIA Federal Police. We are facing a federal raid within 48 hours.
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The deadline has passed and law enforcement is clearing out the protesters. Work on the pipeline is moving forward. One more chapter for the Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee. Not to mention the callous disregard for safe public drinking water of all Americans.
Police prepare for SWAT situation at Dakota Access pipeline protest camp
Headline from a national news site.
Our industrial people don't care if the drinking water gets polluted, as they have proven time and again. Just makes more chronically sick to make money off of.
This is not being posted to in any way cause a disturbance, but only to offer a different perspective. I did not know some of thing found in this report.
Dakota Pipeline Facts
Quote:The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is the safest and most environmentally sensitive way to transport crude oil from domestic wells to American consumers. It is the result of an extensive process that involved review and approval by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and regulators in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. It will be among the safest, most technologically advanced pipelines in the world.
This $3.8 billion project crosses almost entirely private land, often already in use for other utility easements. The Dakota Access Pipeline does not cross the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, even at the portion of the pipeline that is the subject of dispute at Lake Oahe. In developing the route, the United States Army Corps of Engineers alone held 389 meetings with 55 tribes regarding the Dakota Access project. In addition, the U.S. Army Corps reached out to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe nearly a dozen times to discuss archaeological and other surveys conducted before finalizing the Dakota Access route.
Notably, Lake Oahe already contains eight other pipelines uneventfully operating adjacent to the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline, as well as one high-voltage electric transmission line. DAPL crosses at least 95 feet below the bottom of Lake Oahe, and at points, up to 115 feet below.
The protest is about pipelines that pollute the water. That is why the people self labeled themselves as "Water Protectors." When rich people protest pipe lines are too close, it's "no problem" to reroute them through poorer people's neighborhoods.
Media block at Standing Rock.
UPDATE FROM STANDING ROCK:
Worse than before square one: being arrested and demolished and persecuted in SILENCE: they've shut down live feeds (must be an illegal block) and are behaving in ways that keep the media from being able to cover what's happening.
They warned that they would come on the 22nd and instead came today so there would be no media coverage. Please please post so it can reach the people it should.
This makes me sick to post this: The raid has begun at Standing Rock (per Sunny Savage who is there). There is apparently a standoff happening right now. Backwater bridge has been opened, and there are large numbers of police, DAPL security, and National Guard circling the water protectors. Raids and mass arrest are imminent. Apparently, Trump is behind this. Live feeds are blocked. Media are not there, except for TYT. If you copy and paste, more people will see than if you click "share." Send love & support by reposting if you will.
