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The 4. In December, the Obama administration halted the development of the Dakota Access Pipeline to pump fracking oil from North Dakota to the state of Illinois. Oil transfer Energy Transfer Partners and its Texas chief Kelcy Warren failed to stop the Lakota Indians' fight against the oil pipeline "The Black Snake." The Army Corps of Engineers does not permit the company to put oil pipes under the Lakota Tribe's only drinking water source. The Missouri River is the water reservoir for the Native American Reserve and 18 millions of Americans down the Missouri-Mississippi River. The eight-month resistance battle succeeds – for now.
Sacred burial sites and ancient Native American cultural landscapes have been destroyed by the oil company's excavators, LaDonna tells Brave Bull Allard. The rollout is a limited victory in a war that has lasted for 300 years. In the struggle for land and rights, the indigenous people have so far always lost. For the first time in history, over 300 tribes from across America have stood together. Media attention led to a startling result. It has cost. At the same time, the triumph will only be a beginning of the right of participation of indigenous peoples. Minority opponent Donald Trump is inaugurated as president of 2017. The billionaire has invested millions of dollars in the pipeline, and says he will promote the completion of the expensive 3,8 billion dollar and 1900 kilometer project as soon as he has come to power.
According to EcoWatch, in 2016, there were 220 oil pipe leaks in the United States. Since 2006, 3032 pipe leaks have been recorded. The Lakota people are afraid that the drinking water will be polluted. The last leak occurred in the Belle Fourche Pipeline in Billings County, 241 miles from Standing Rock Camp. 4200 barrels of oil leaked into the wild. DNB accounts for ten percent of the project funding with a limit of NOK 30 billion through loans to Energy Transfer Partners, according to Aftenposten.
The rollout is a limited victory in a war that has lasted for 300 years.
Lawlessness in North Dakota. In the past month, state police have used all means to stop the water protectors in the land that today "belong to" the Army Corps of Engineers, but which, according to agreements the US government has signed with the Lakota tribe, owned by the Sioux Indians, cf. The Fort Laramie Agreement of 1851. These are facts that the media for unknown reasons fail to report. The Laramie agreement is documented in the book The Earth Shall Weep from 1998 by author James Wilson, who has been researching the history of indigenous peoples in the United States for over 25 years.
The militarized police force recently deployed extreme noise, blasted tear gas grenades, sprayed pepper spray on faces, flushed people with freezing cold water from minus degrees, shot people with rubber bullets in their heads, and kicked and kicked water guards before being arrested and thrown naked in ice shells. . Over 160 people have been injured, many seriously.
Journalist Joshua Fox of TYT Politics gets upset when he documents the abuses. Institutionalized violence has been normalized. If the government's procedure is allowed to continue, the United States will end up as an oligarchic anarchy, he claims. In November it peaked: On November 26, Lakota Tribe Chief Dave Archambault received an ultimatum from State Governor Jack Dalrymple, who threatened that Oceti Sakowin Camp would be forced to evacuate if people did not leave it by December 5. The reason was security concerns for the camp's residents and residents of the state by the way – suddenly the governor was interested in the protesters' well-being after eight months of harassing them. The governor banned all access to "federal" land in the area, and ignored the 1851 agreement. The absurdity is amplified to the comic: US authorities deny people access to land they do not own and enforce expropriation with militarized power. Fox points out that it is the media's duty to state that the lands were stolen from the Indians, and elaborates this with a parable: "Imagine being robbed in my own house, fleeing from the thieves and trying to take the house back – and then be arrested by the crooks for breaking into my own home. "
The media fails. The Sioux today demonstrate solely because the tribe survived the genocide. Most indigenous peoples in the United States are extinct, they have no voice anymore. The nightmare is common to all Native Americans in the United States, and they live in a surreal reality. Fox is accusing the New York Times of failing to report from the clashes, and of going to the police for coverage of the brutality. According to Fox, the newspaper is "too lazy" to find out the truth about who actually owns the land according to agreements made with the indigenous people. The mainstream media has been completely absent in the coverage of the conflict, the journalist Fox notes. He points out that the events at the camp cannot be defined as a "confrontation between two parties". Only the police and the oil company's security personnel have acted violently. When the water protectors put on gas masks to protect themselves from tear gas and pepper spray, they were instructed to remove the gas masks. Wearing a gas mask is an "aggressive act," according to police. In connection with the sheriff's notification of forced evacuation of the resistance camp, the authorities suggested creating a free speech zone for people south of the Oceti Sakowin camp. The camp residents should be moved to smaller camps, including Rosebud Reservation and Standing Rock Reservation. One Native American woman responded to the governor's order: "I thought America was a 'free speach zone'! Does the police have to establish freedom of expression in the US itself? ” Governor Dalrymple has decided that Highway 1806 is closed to date. Private oil companies set the agenda.
Serious damages. 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky from New York nearly blew her entire forearm when a tear gas grenade hit her during a November demonstration. She has undergone several surgeries. It is still unclear whether her arm should be amputated. Her father tells Democracy Now! that both were monitored by the FBI's counterterrorism department at the hospital for several hours. Morton County police report that they are not responsible for the damage and refuse to use tear gas grenades against the protesters. Wilansky was trying to escape the police rubber bullets when she was hit by the grenade. Witnesses say the grenades usually explode after seven seconds on the ground, but that police removed the plug and held the gas grenade for five seconds before throwing it at Wilansky. Due to the roadblock, it took several hours before Wilansky could be transported to hospital by helicopter.
On November 20, Vanessa Dundon was hit by rubber bullets in one eye. The road block prevented rapid transport to the hospital. She lost sight of her right eye forever.
Energy Transfer Partners says they will complete the pipeline. They would rather pay a fine than shred the project they know Donald Trump is going to prioritize.
The latest news is that the Army Corps of Engineers will raise the water level in the river, which will make it technically impossible for the oil company to drill under the river. The case is finally decided in the courts after New Year. None of the water protectors trust the authorities until the oil company has left the area for good.
21-year-old Sophia Wilansky from New York nearly blew her entire forearm when a tear gas grenade hit her during a demonstration.
Trump good for Statoil. On November 23, the DN said that Trump would make it cheaper to extract fracking oil. He will cancel all restrictions that destroy jobs in energy production. This is positive for Statoil, which can look wider and increase activity on land, says an oil analyst at DNB Markets. The oil is extracted in North Dakota and Texas.
For Norwegian investors and lenders to the Dakota Access Pipeline such as the Oil Fund, Statoil, DNB, Storebrand and KLP, the above-mentioned human rights violations are obviously indifferent. The companies will make money at the expense of the Indians. Politicians are waiting for the Storting's ethics council to come up with "strategic" wording at the beginning of the year. But it may be too late. An oil spill from the pipeline will affect millions of people along the Missouri River. The Bakken field emits tons of greenhouse gases. The green shift is so far in the blue.
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