Should The Dakota Access Pipeline?

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a 1,172-mile-long underground oil pipeline that runs from North Dakota down to Illinois. The pipeline costs $3.8 billion and is owned by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners LP. It is supposed to carry approximately 470,000 barrels of oil a day and the pipeline makes that move in oil a more cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner. The plan is to construct it through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Those lands are considered sacred to the native people and the lake where the pipeline would run under is a big supply of water for the nearby tribes, one big concern with the pipeline running under lake Oahe is when the line may break it will contaminate the supply of water. As we all know there
Of course there is the Native American tribes who protest the pipeline because the plan is for the pipeline is to go straight through their territory. To being there was just a small protest mainly with the native Americans of the local tribes peacefully protesting the building of the pipeline but after one A-list Hollywood celebrity was arrested on October 10th, which so happened to be National Native American day, Shailene Woodley the star of The Divergent Series, was arrested while protesting with the tribe members and her arrest was streamed live all over the internet for the world to see. After her arrest more people tuned in to find out exactly what was happening at Standing Rock. Since Woodley’s arrest thousands more people have gone up to Standing Rock to stand alongside those protesting this pipeline. Among those who joined in the protest are thousands of military veterans, chairman Dave Archambault II, Chief Morgan Littlesun, and many of other people from around the country. These protests even brought Sioux and Pawnee tribes together after centuries of hating each
Many have been shot with rubber bullets, pepper sprayed, blasted with water cannons at freezing temperatures, tasered, verbally abused, threatened and attacked. One women nearly lost her arm when Morton County sheriff’s fired a concussion grenade. While law enforcement continues to assault them, protesters remain peaceful. Protesters are not only enduring cruel treatment from law enforcement, they also have to endure the cruel conditions of mother nature. They’ve been protesting in freezing temperatures, and a blizzard that left behind more than a foot of