Violence begets violence

I am sure they will...and I don’t know what I should give up? I don’t have a stake in this other than the economy of our state vs my concern for historic resources except for my concern that the violence is spilling over into the rest of the city/state and I am concerned for my safety, the safety of the workers, the…

It isn’t on sovereign land

Thank you, yes.. here is a direct link to the project (hope it works)

They do, and it was. There are of course provisions for post survey discovery, if something is found during construction they need to stop immediately and notify the SHPO and possibly other parties (BIA, THPO and the Dept of Health). Burial sites are protected regardless of whether they are on the reservation or not.…

non-threateningly swinging wooden poles and metal posts?

They tore down a private fence and trespassed onto private land...yes.

Was with you until the p.s...

No. The county and state removed water trucks that they had taken down to the protest site for the comfort of the protesters after they determined they couldn’t guarantee the safety of their equipment or workers due to numerous acts of vandalism. There is still water going to whereever water was going before, they…

You mean like all the other pipelines that already run under the river? What we really need to do is just stop using oil at all...I would love walking to work at -20 /s

The entire portion of the pipeline located in ND was surveyed. The report was over 800 pages. There were 389 meetings in which the tribes were involved, the pipeline construction company specifically requested 7 meetings with Standing Rock which were rejected by them.

Lengthy legal process...the USACE doesn’t “fast-track” anything...

It is not on the reservation. It is on private land north of there.