Obama: Army Corps Considering ‘Rerouting’ Dakota Access Pipeline

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast

President Obama on Tuesday provided a glimmer of hope to protesters unhappy with the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s proposed path. After violent clashes between activists and authorities, Obama said in a NowThis interview that his administration is working on possible ways to “reroute” the project, saying he is aware of concerns from Native Americans that the $3.8 billion pipeline’s location is slated to be built less than a mile from tribal lands in North Dakota. “We’re monitoring this closely,” Obama said. “My view is that there is a way for us to accommodate sacred lands of Native Americans. And I think that right now the Army Corps is examining whether there are ways to reroute this pipeline.” He added, “We’re going to let it play out for several more weeks and determine whether or not this can be resolved in a way that I think is properly attentive to the traditions of First Americans.”

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More from Reuters:

Obama says US mulling alternate routes for North Dakota pipeline


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/obama-says-us-mulling-alternate-routes-for-north-dakota-pipeline/

[Fahrenthold451]

1. Reroute up a Koch brother's ass--IMHO

[vi5]

2. Can someone help me here...

I understand the crux of the issue. The pipeline was supposed to go one way (through Bismark) but people complained about the risk to their water. Now it is going another way through the native land that is causing the protests.

But how did the oil company get away with this? Who owns the land? Who gave them permission?

That's the only piece I don't understand.

[Fla Dem]

3. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Litigation on the Dakota Access Pipeline

Why did the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe bring a lawsuit?

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is deeply concerned about the construction of a major crude-oil pipeline that passes through its ancestral lands. There are two broad issues. First, the pipeline would pass under the Missouri River (at Lake Oahe) just a half a mile upstream of the tribe’s reservation boundary, where a spill would be culturally and economically catastrophic. Second, the pipeline would pass through areas of great cultural significance, such as sacred sites and burial grounds that federal law seeks to protect.
The Tribe sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is the primary federal agency that granted permits needed for the pipeline to be constructed. The lawsuit alleges that the Corps violated multiple federal statutes, including the Clean Water Act, National Historic Protection Act, and National Environmental Policy Act, when it issued the permits.

more>>>
http://earthjustice.org/features/faq-standing-rock-litigation?gclid=CjwKEAjwnebABRCjpvr13dHL8DsSJABB-ILJaUOZiPF0E8bgnDfgRlaeWmN-xSHE9FQxH739E5lb-xoCFwLw_wcB

Just goggle Dakota Access Pipeline and there are plenty of articles for you to read.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "But how did the oil company get away with this?"

The state. Often through approval of seizing land through eminent domain. Problem is what is what you also asked - whose "land" they are talking about and whether any treaties that may have been in effect. And I believe the issue here is that in this case, they were doing eminent domain + land that they had purchased and that included land the Sioux claim is theirs by treaty.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Yep...

the state sold land they didn't own, which is where the federal government should have stepped in.