Dakota Access pipeline
Trump Jumps Into Pipeline Fight
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President Donald Trump has signed documents to advance the Dakota Access Pipeline. While not unexpected, his actions are met with a mixed response in North Dakota.
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Beginning in late summer 2016, Native American tribes from across the country and their supporters gathered in North Dakota to protest the Dakota Access pipeline, a 1,200-mile pipeline that would carry oil from the Bakken to Illinois. The Standing Rock Sioux sued the Army Corps of Engineers to stop construction, and the case is making its way through the courts. The conflict is reminiscent of earlier conflicts between tribes and the federal government over infrastructure development on tribal land.
President Donald Trump has signed documents to advance the Dakota Access Pipeline. While not unexpected, his actions are met with a mixed response in North Dakota.
From 19th-century treaties to today’s clashes in rural North Dakota, Inside Energy walks you through the events of the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy.
North Dakota has never experienced anything like the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Tension over the project is still boiling months after the controversy hit the national spotlight.
Inside Energy reporter Amy Sisk has chased the story of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests for four months. Here, she describes her journey gaining access to demonstrators, navigating blizzards and avoiding arrest.
Inside Energy is working on a documentary about the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy and tribal sovereignty issues raised by the Standing Rock Sioux. Does the current system of tribal consultation work for tribes? Does it work for energy infrastructure projects? Stay tuned for a full treatment of these issues. In the meantime, here’s a short look at some of the concerns from both sides.
On Sunday, the Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline. After months of protest and months of construction, parties with vested interests in the pipeline are wondering what’s next. For thousands of Native Americans and climate activists who have joined the Standing Rock Sioux’s protest against the pipeline, and are camped out in blizzard conditions, the question is — should they leave or should they stay? At the same time, the oil industry and legal experts are trying to make sense of the decision and what it means for the longterm project’s fate.
For the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the effort to block the Dakota Access pipeline—an effort that attracted thousands of protesters, including members from hundreds of different Indian tribes across the nation—is about much more than oil, or water.
What’s going on with that pipeline in North Dakota? Momentum behind the Dakota Access pipeline protests has been building for months. The 1,200 mile-long pipeline project is controversial, involving many big-picture interests, issues, and plenty of misinformation. You’ve been flooding us with great questions, and we’re answering them.
After months of protests, the Army Corps of Engineers has denied the easement needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Protesters have been camped out on federal land at the Dakota Access construction site in North Dakota for months, and now winter has arrived, dumping almost two week of snow on the encampment the last week of November. The winter storm hit just before news that president-elect Donald Trump indicated he supports completion of the pipeline.