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Life in the Native American oil protest camps

2016-09-07 03:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: An Indian reservation in North Dakota is the site of the largest gathering of Native Americans in more than 100 years. Indigenous people from across the US are living in camps on the Standing Rock reservation as they protest the construction of a new oil pipeline. As a result, a new community has emerged. The BBC's Charlie Northcott went to North Dakota to meet the protesters and discover what goes on in camp. Peter Francis, of the Sioux people, has spent a week hauling iron pots between a holding...

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Are Environmentalists Using Native Americans, and Does It Matter?

2016-09-06 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Daily Beast: In an unprecedented show of inter-tribal cooperation not seen, according to one elder, since the Battle of Big Horn, thousands of activists from at least 200 Native American tribes have gathered in a remote part of North Dakota to protest the construction of a new oil pipeline. Thousands more have joined them in support: dramatic moments of protesters tying themselves to bulldozers are streaming live on Facebook. A huge campground--dubbed Sacred Stone Camp--comes complete with sweat lodges and...

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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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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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