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Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs and Pepper Spray
2016-09-04 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Democracy Now!: On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline`s construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakotas Bakken oilfield to Illinois. The project has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and members of nearly 100 more tribes from across the U.S. and Canada. Democracy Now! was on the ground at Saturdays action...
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North Dakota pipeline protest turns violent after cultural sites destroyed
2016-09-04 15:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A protest against a four-state, $3.8bn oil pipeline turned violent after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota. Morton County sheriffs office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey said four private security guards and two guard dogs were injured after several hundred protesters confronted construction crews on Saturday afternoon at the site just outside the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. North Dakota oil pipeline...
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North Dakota oil pipeline protesters stand their ground: 'This is sacred land'
2016-08-29 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Cannonball river flows into the mighty Missouri about 50 miles due south of Bismarck, North Dakota. At its confluence, a protest encampment really a series of camps, on both sides of the Cannonball, strewn with kitchens and canteens, portable toilets, stabling for horses, sweat lodges and tall teepees, and stands selling indigenous art has sprung up. The inhabitants are there to block the planned $3.7bn Dakota Access Pipeline, which would transport fracked crude from the Bakken oil...
Were not going home: inside the North Dakota oil pipeline protest video
2016-08-29 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There is a battle under way near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, over plans for a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline. The North Dakota Access pipeline will run just outside the formal boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, and tribal members fear it will pollute local drinking water and disturb sacred sites
Native American tribes unite against Dakota pipeline project
2016-08-28 12:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deutsche Welle: Several hundred protestors from at least 100 Native American tribes have joined a weeks-long protest to support the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its bid to stop construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline. The tribe argues that the $3.8 billion (3.4 billion euros) pipeline, which will pass through Iowa, Illinois, North Dakota and South Dakota, threatens its sacred sites and drinking water. The Sioux group also says it was not properly consulted before construction began on the pipeline. As...
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