Tribe files new legal challenge against North Dakota pipeline

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



09 FEB 2017 AT 10:44 ET

A Native American tribe said on Thursday it had filed a last-ditch legal challenge in a bid to block the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline project after the company constructing it won federal permission to tunnel under the Missouri River.

“This administration (of President Donald Trump) has expressed utter and complete disregard for not only our treaty and water rights, but the environment as a whole,” the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said in a statement on their website.

The tribe and environmental activists have vowed to fight the 1,170-mile (1,885-km) pipeline project, fearing it will desecrate sacred sites and endanger drinking water. Supporters say the pipeline will be a safer mode of transportation for the oil than rail or trucks.

Legal experts have said the Standing Rock Sioux faces long odds in convincing any court to halt work on the pipeline, which is being led by Energy Transfer Partners LP and could now begin operation as soon as June.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/tribe-files-new-legal-challenge-against-north-dakota-pipeline/

[SHRED]

1. I fear for the water protectors

[turbinetree]

2. And guess what the sexual predator did...............to the environment...............

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/02/army-corps-ignores-environment


"All Federal Agencies are bound to follow laws in their actions. One of the laws is the National Environmental Policy Act or NEPA. Though agencies can follow different routes within the NEPA framework, they can't work outside of it. Not unless expressly given permission to with other laws. There is no other law at play with the Corps Dakota Pipeline decision."


Donate:

standingrock.org

earthjustice.org

[Bayard]

3. I SO wish they could make it so

Seems like everyone just kind of forgotten about them since they "lost". Which is what this administration and ETP were planning.

[ananda]

4. Where are the vets?

They've raised over a million dollars already.

Is that a scam?

[HelenWheels]

5. i donated to the Native Americans in their fight against the pipe line