How Did The Dakota Access Pipeline?

A big movement that has came across America’s headlines in The Dakota Access Pipeline. It has created a war between the US Government and the Indian Reservation. The pipeline would run through the Indian Reservation. The biggest argument that the Standing Rock Sioux People were bringing up were that the pipeline would be destroying the water supply to the reservation. The Indians believed it would be scorching the earth. The people of the reservation believe t “water is life”, and that they are looking out for the future of their children, with protesting against the pipeline. (Archambealt) If the pipeline was put in, it would be ruining Mother Nature by taking down 100-year-old trees, and polluting the water of the Missouri River, which is the primary drinking source for Standing Rock.(Archambealt) If there were to be an oil spill it would pollute the main source of water for the Indians. This would leave them no water to survive. The historical precedents the US would break once again would be the Laramie Treaty of 1868.(Estes) This Treaty brought peace between whites and the Sioux. The Sioux agreed to settle in the Black Hills reservation, which had wood, water and a source food which are the three things the Sioux need to survive.
The US government believed that the pipeline would help the economy. The Pipeline would process 47,000 barrels of Bakker crude oil daily. The 47,00 barrels would bring in 3.78 billion dollars daily.(Fargo-Moorhead) The state tax revenue would go up to 43.3 million in the first five months of the pipeline operation. This would benefit our economy in a huge way. Also, the shipping price per barrel went down. It was seven to eight dollars a barrel and was reduced to five dollars a barrel. This left the producers and royalty owners with a big profit. (Fargo-Moorhead) Overall, the US would be improving our