Tribe to Continue Fight After Court Refuses to Halt Dakota Access Pipeline

As reported by NBC News:

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will keep fighting the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline after a federal court rejected its request to halt construction on the project, which the tribe says would destroy some of its sacred sites, the tribe's chairman told NBC News on Sunday night.

In a two-page ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the tribe's request for a permanent injunction to block the $3.7 billion, 1,170-mile pipeline, which would transport 470,000 barrels of oil a day across four states. The pipeline would run within a half-mile of the tribe's reservation, which straddles the North and South Dakota border.

The ruling allows Energy Transfer Partners — the Dallas-based company funding the project — to move forward with construction of the pipeline on all privately owned land up to the Missouri River. Construction had been halted by a temporary injunction issued in late August, which prohibited construction 20 miles east and west of the river, the tribe's main water source.

Tribal Chairman Dave Archambault II called the ruling "disappointing," but he told NBC News: "We aren't done with this fight."

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Midwest Energy News headlines on DAPL and other crude oil pipeline impacts on Native American communities, the land, the water, etc.

PIPELINES: Michigan approves adding oil pipeline supports in the Straits of Mackinac, but the state did not grant the pipeline owner’s full request after concerns raised by the public, local tribes and environmental groups. (Detroit Free Press)

ALSO:
• A three-judge federal appeals court panel is set to hear a dispute over whether construction should continue to be halted on the Dakota Access pipeline. (Associated Press)
• A Dakota Access protester is accused of terrorizing a police officer after allegedly charging at the officer while on horseback. (Associated Press)

[Re: that last headline, what about the terrorization of militarized police confronting non-violent Native American land defenders/water protectors merely engaging in the free exercise of peaceful religious ceremonies?! See for example:

Officer points gun at protester as Dakota Access pipeline clashes continue

and

Military-Style Raid Ends Native Prayer Against Dakota Pipeline

What about the use of attack dogs, sicced on unarmed water protectors, including a pregnant woman and a child?! What about the Mace-ing and tackling of unarmed land defenders? All the land defenders/water protectors were doing was trying to stop the desecration of ancient sacred sites and burial sites by DAPL bulldozers. See:

MoveOn.org petition to ND Private Investigation and Security Board, re: attack dogs sicced on Native American water protectors]

Native American land defender/water protector speaks truth to power at ND gubernatorial debate

As reported by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! during the show's Oct. 4th news headlines segment (watch/listen from the 11 minute 43 second mark to the 13 minute 13 second mark), a Native American land defender/water protector (they do not want to be called protestors), opposed to the crude oil Dakota Access Pipeline threatening Standing Rock Sioux Tribe drinking water, ancient sacred and burial sites, etc., disrupted the North Dakota gubernatorial debate last evening.

She compared DAPL's violation of the 1851 treaty between the Sioux and U.S. government -- in the form of desecration of sacred and burial sites on historic tribal lands -- to violation of nuclear weapons treaties, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Meanwhile, as reported by Goodman, Native American land defenders/water protectors in a large convoy of vehicles non-violently disrupted ongoing construction of the DAPL in North Dakota, as non-Indian protestors in Iowa engaged in non-violent direct action to stop DAPL construction there, resulting in multiple arrests.

Beyond Nuclear on Thom Hartmann's "The Big Picture" with IEN, re: Dakota Access Pipeline resistance

Beyond Nuclear was honored and privileged to appear on Thom Hartmann's "The Big Picture," along with Indigenous Environmental Network, to discuss the ongoing, inspiring water and land protector resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline, centered at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe lands near Cannonball, ND.

Thom discusses how the North Dakota pipeline protests are spreading across the country with the Indigenous Environmental Network’s (IEN) Kandi Mossett and Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps.

The interview segment begins at the 30 minute 20 second mark, and ends at the 42 minute 50 second mark.

(Please note, Anishinaabemowin refers to Anishinaabe language; Anishinaabeaki refers to Anishinaabe land. Kalamazoo means "Boiling Pot" is Anishinaabemowin; Michigan means "Great Lake.")

Officer points gun at protester as Dakota Access pipeline clashes continue

Alejandro Dávila Fragoso at ThinkProgress reports:

Nearly 100 people have been arrested since protests began.

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