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Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Activists Plan Emergency Actions Across the Country to Protest Approval of Dakota Access Pipeline
Lawyers for the tribe say they will argue in court that an
environmental impact statement, mandated by the Army Corps under Obama,
was wrongfully terminated. They will likely request a restraining order
while the legal battle ensues. Pipeline company lawyers have said that
it would take at minimum 83 days for oil to flow from the date that an
easement is granted. Although the tribal government once supported the string of
anti-pipeline camps that began popping up last spring, leaders have
since insisted that pipeline opponents go home and stay away from the
reservation. “Please respect our people and do not come to Standing Rock
and instead exercise your First Amendment rights and take this fight to
your respective state capitols, to your members of Congress, and to
Washington, D.C.,” tribal chairman Dave Archambault said in a statement. Still, the easement announcement is already activating pipeline
opponents to return. A “couple thousand people” are headed back to the
camps, including contingents of veterans, said former congressional
candidate Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the tribe, in a video posted to Facebook. Cedric Goodhouse, a Lakota elder who lives on the reservation and has
been involved in fighting the pipeline since last spring, said it’s
inevitable that the fight will spill outside the courtroom. “It’s going
to come here to the drill pad. That puts us in a different spot,” he
said. “It’s going to come to a head, and people are probably going to
get hurt.”...more
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