Activists are threatening "mass resistance" to President Donald Trump and the Army Corps of Engineers on the hotly disputed Dakota Access pipeline — and it could be difficult for the White House to counter the movement. "The granting of an easement, without any environmental review or
tribal consultation, is not the end of this fight — it is the new
beginning. Expect mass resistance far beyond what Trump has seen so
far," the Indigenous Environmental Network said in a statement.
What that resistance will look
like is uncertain. The movement appears to be taking on a diffuse,
leaderless structure, similar to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives
Matter. Such movements tend to have staying power...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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