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#NoDAPL: Dakota Access Pipeline Has Already Had a Leak Before It’s Even Fully Operational
The $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, which was the subject of international protests because of the threat it posed to both the environment and the indigenous people living along the Missouri River, has already had a leak more than a month before it’s scheduled to be fully operational. The April 6 leak spilled 84 gallons…
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#NoDAPL: Police in Wash. State Win Warrant to Search Content of Protest Facebook Page
Local police in Washington state have been granted a warrant to search the Facebook page of a group dedicated to protesting the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline. The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Department in Bellingham, Wash., obtained the warrant, which seeks to collect data surrounding the Bellingham #NoDAPL Coalition’s Facebook page, which, as…
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Trail of Tears: Militarized Imperialist Forces Seize Standing Rock Camp
With fire and smoke lapping the skyline, Standing Rock Sioux tribal members and water protectors marched, drummed, sang and prayed their way from Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) Camp, the home they have built while protecting their sacred land from the “black snake,” also known as the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Associated Press reports that…
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#NoDAPL: Cheyenne River Sioux File Legal Challenge to Dakota Access Pipeline
Earlier this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted the easement needed for Energy Transfer Partners subsidiary Dakota Access to continue construction on the highly contested $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, and the company began work late Wednesday to begin the process of crossing the Missouri River. But one Native American tribe is not…
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#NoDAPL: US Army Corps of Engineers Issuing Final Permits Allowing Pipeline to Move Forward
After nearly a year of protests, debates, legal battles and government stalling and backpedaling, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will grant an easement needed for construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline to continue, despite the fact that critical environmental-impact studies have not been completed. As CNN reports, President Donald Trump signed executive actions just…
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#NoDAPL: CEO Says Dakota Access Pipeline Will Move Forward; Trump Sends the Law to Clear Protesters From Land
As what will likely be the case with many of the new president’s policies and proclamations, the Dakota Access Pipeline may move forward as initially planned—even though many thought it wouldn’t. Although protesters of the pipeline got a victory in December, when the Army Corps under President Barack Obama denied the easement that would have…
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Malia Obama Seen at Dakota Access Pipeline Protest at Sundance
America’s former first daughter (fight me) is apparently keeping busy now that her dad has stepped down from the presidency. Malia Obama marked her first week as a “normal” person by attending an event supporting the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah,…
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Environmental Racism Is a Special and Urgent Concern
The focus of environmental justice has been the preservation of ecologies and spaces largely uninhabited by people of color. There is grave consideration for the preservation of national parks, but not for the preservation of black life and space. The ideas of justice and environment refer to the surrounding conditions of living things, yet the…
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Sandbranch, Texas: A Small Community Denied Water for Over 30 Years Fights Back
Sandbranch, Texas, a small unincorporated community in Dallas County, has been fighting for over 30 years to have access to clean running water, but between the machinations of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Dallas County officials, the community continues to go without this most basic and critical of human rights. Sandbranch is located 14…
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#NoDAPL: Big Win at Standing Rock as Army Corps Denies Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline
Updated Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, 5:30 a.m. EST: Predictably, Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics Partners—owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline—have made it clear that they aren’t going anywhere and that the Army Corps statement was just politricks as usual. Read the full statement below: For more than three years now, Dakota Access Pipeline has done…