The Dakota access pipeline has much risk in the aspects of environmental impact and the thousands of people protesting for the protection indian reservation‚ but these pipelines bring in huge economic gain. In the article‚ “Dakota Access Pipeline: What’s at stake?” Written by Holly Yan‚ she explores the possible pros and cons of piping oil through North Dakota to Illinois. People are arguing that piping oil could be hazardous to native american land‚ but others say the U.S. needs the money. While
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Prison Privatization Privatizing prisons may be one way for the prison population to get back under control. Prisons are overcrowded and need extra money to house inmates or to build a new prison. The issue of a serious need for space needs to be addressed. “As a national average‚ it costs roughly $20‚000 per year to keep an inmate in prison. There are approximately 650‚000 inmates in state and local prisons‚ double the number five years ago. This costs taxpayers an estimated $18 billion each
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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
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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
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Ball‚ North Dakota there’s a land called Standing Rock Sioux reservation and that’s where the USACE wants to put a pipeline in. The Standing Rock Sioux reservation is a Native American sacred and burial ground. The Native Americans don’t want them putting the pipeline in because‚ it’ll contaminate their clean water and bother the people who were buried there. At first‚ the pipeline wasn’t a big deal and then the USACE wouldn’t cooperate and the THPO sued them which caused a very big problem. Once
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everything will be taken away no matter what conditions. The Dakota Access Pipeline project has caused various obligations to the Indigenous people‚ but the citizens also‚ because of the decisions the government made there will be negative outcomes due to them investing their money and time to this project‚ such as problems like environmental issues‚ interruption of sacred land use‚ economics and the outcome of protesting. This pipeline that’s begun and is about to
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The Keystone XL Pipeline: Environmental Impact Abstract. The topic of global oil production is becoming a well-recognized political issue‚ as it should‚ but the environmental impacts need to be addressed as well. The recent development project of the Canadian oil sands has been put into the spotlight after the TransCanada Company applied for a permit allowing their Keystone XL pipeline. Introduction. The Keystone XL pipeline is a project of oil companies invested in tar sands oil‚ which
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The TransMountain Pipeline Expansion Project is intended to maximise the energy potential of Canada by laying a pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby City. Though it intends to create jobs‚ inject huge capital into the economy‚ and improve lives‚ there is an increased anxiety about the safety measures incorporated into the whole project. This is partly because of the lack of involvement of the people who will be directly affected by the project in the decision-making process. There wasn’t enough education
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Jail and Prison Kyle T Klusacek March 11‚ 2013 Jail and Prison During the last three decades‚ prisons and jails have become full to capacity because of an increase in drug laws and repeat offenders. Before prisons took control‚ early punishments were brutal and not humane. There are two different cultures when discussing jails and prisons. Jails can be seen as short term whereas prisons are long term. Crime has been an increasing factor in today’s society‚ prisons and jails hold the offenders
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part of the economy. The inmates are being held in prison and are a part of the violence and the unpredicted behaviors that is happening inside the prisons. Prisons are supposed to be places that change and develop people to the better. Instead it is a place deprived of humanity and consciousness‚ which leads to recidivism and behavioral violence. Prison reform is needed because it would help increase economic growth‚ reduce the number of prisons needed‚ and help allocate taxpayer’s money to education
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