One of the main issues is wildlife and how they will react to the pipeline. The pipeline runs through areas such as Kendall Island Migration Bird Sanctuary and other unprotected, but…
When I read Dakota Access Pipeline: What's at stake? by Holly Yang the topic was bothersome. For some people reading and they are part Native-American, they would be mad that the government approved this project. The people who have lived there all their lives on the land that the government granted and now the government is going to invade their own land to build a pipeline to carry oil to benefit their economy. The Native-American's have a right to say what happened on their land. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe sued the Corps because it would threaten the tribe environmentally and economically…
Before one can form an opinion on whether the Keystone Pipeline should or should not be built, they should first know what it is, and hear both sides of the argument.…
The Keystone Pipeline, also known as Keystone XL, is a 1,179-mile-long pipeline from oil fields in Western Canada to the Midwestern United States. Specifically, this pipeline will extend from Alberta, Canada to Steele City, Nebraska with plans to link to an existing pipeline that reaches to the Gulf Coast. Despite the advantages this pipeline will produce, it will also create various negative effects regarding wildlife and inhabitants of these areas, economic and political issues, as well as challenge government policies and regulations.…
The United States government possesses a long history of double-crossing Native Americans. The most recent event is the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline currently being protested by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters. Though the pipeline is more than halfway completed, protestor's have held their ground since April of 2016, and show no sign of losing momentum. The tribe argues construction of the pipeline has already bulldozed into the sacred burial grounds of their ancestors, and further digging will result in irreparable damage to historical, religious and cultural sites. Along with the possible contamination of the Missouri River in case of a leak or oil spill. Followed by The Army Corp of Engineers, responsible of approving the final permits for the pipeline, failing to properly consult with the tribe beforehand. The pipeline has been momentarily halted, while…
In my opinion, authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline would be damaging to the environment. Displace residents from their home or property if it obstructs the construction of the pipeline. And lastly, will only cause a short term economic benefit to the working class who seek long term employment not a seasonal position.…
The Keystone Pipeline has been in news for several months and has been the subject of scrutiny, political bantering and environmentalist activism. Keystone Pipeline is a transcontinental synthetic oil project that runs from Canada to the Gulf Coast. Construction of such a pipeline bears many risk associated with ecosystem disruption and environmental hazards. President Obama blocked the pipeline’s extension noting several studies that the pipeline would have adverse impact on air and water supplies.…
Many concerns of the pipeline include a possible rupture that can pollute the Missouri River and contaminate water sources in the state. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe acknowledge this concern and are protestesting their disdain of this possibility. Moreover, the protesters are being confronted with private security and state authorities to suppress them. However, it is within their first amendment right, from the Bill of Rights, to oppose what they deemed more harmful than good. Altogether, The construction has not only begun to destroy their tribal burial mounds but has a potential to create a enormous environmental disaster that protesters are trying to avoid.…
"What You Need to Know About the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community." Common Dreams, www.commondreams.org /views/2016/09/09/what-you-need-know-about-dakota-access-pipeline-protest. Gail Ablow shares what is happening among the Sioux and the Dakota access pipeline with her personal analysis, to inform individuals what they should know about the event. She clarifies the threats and dangers that the Dakota Access Pipeline can bring to the Sioux Native Indian tribe. Also, the protest between the two and how it’s affecting the state of North Dakota. She also explains about the Dakota Access pipeline and the intentions of it being put in place. She goes into various details about how the pipeline…
There should never have been a problem with the Dakota Access Pipeline, and it should be built. The pipeline has many benefits, and few, if any, actual problems. Nodaplsolidarity.org, a site dedicated to opposing and protesting the pipeline, avoids the issue of what the problems with it actually are, saying that the pipeline is a violation of the United Nation’s Declaration of Universal Human Rights, and a violation of the United Nation’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, without actually naming what it is about the pipeline that violates these declarations. Since there appear to be no actual issues violated (and they are declarations of the United Nations, not the United States) these problems can be dismissed, leaving us with…
The government should not come in contact with property that does not belong to them unless consent is given by the owner. In the case of Standing Rock, the government was never given permission to construct the oil pipeline in their Indian Reservation territory. The government should not be allowed to construct the pipeline in Indian Reservation territory because first of all that property is not theirs is the Sioux’s Tribe property. Second of all, the oil pipeline is going to produce many complications for the environment and the community around it. Third and final of all this is going to give America a bad image.…
The American Indian tribe argues that a leak or spill could be ruinous. They say historical and cultural reviews of the land where the pipeline will be buried were inadequate. People also worry about catastrophic environmental damage if the pipeline were to break near where it crosses under the Missouri River.…
Many people would most likely feel conflicted if a very large pipeline was being built through their back yard. Some would even take action. In the article, “Native Americans Celebrate pause of North Dakota Pipeline, Vow to Fight on,” the author, Dave Thompson, claims the Native Standing Rock Sioux Tribe feels the same way about their sacred land. However, through growing efforts the Native people of the local region of the pipeline’s construction to discontinue this pipeline they are making progress in halting the continuation of the pipeline. The author provides the readers with mostly fact used to inform the audience of the article…
They attach a spiritual component to their land (Native American Struggles1.) To Native Americans land is not just a piece of grass or dirt, but purely a living being. So, a major concern for the DAPL project is that it is being built on sacred burial grounds that belong to the Sioux Tribe. “This pipeline is going through huge swaths of ancestral land. It would be like constructing a pipeline through Arlington Cemetery or under St. Patrick’s Cathedral,” said Tribe attorney, Dean DePountis (Heim 2). Under the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie, the land that the pipeline is being built on is still the unceded and sovereign territory of the Sioux Tribe (Dakota Access 4.) The Dakota Access Pipeline is appointed to run through the land that was allegedly protected under the Treaty of Fort…
According to Robert Boos from Pri, the keystone pipeline will go through First Nation peoples lands. This means that the lands people have worked so hard to keep sacred and undisturbed will have people in trucks and cranes disturbing their peace for a while. Later, a pipeline will go straight through their lands. According to these lands have been sacred to the native people for hundreds of years. The first colonists were terrible to the natives, but over time Americans realized how horrible they were to them and now Americans have a chance to prove that they believe that Native Americans should be respected. According to the Washington post, sacred native lands will be disturbed and that should not be an option for the keystone pipeline. The keystone pipeline would go through sacred native lands and that alone should be a deal-breaker for building…