It’s complicated. People can’t see a future without oil in ND because of how tied you are to a car here. And with the large distances and impact of cold on batteries, electric cars aren’t in a place to replace them at a price most can afford. So overall, they are for oil production.

Looks the the standing rock tribe is asking all non Sioux to leave. http://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4172750-standing-rock-sioux-chair-protesters-can-go-home-hopes-trump-meeting

Really hope it was just some technical glitch and she is okay. Not easy to hope, but I’m hoping anyway.

Settling like this isn’t very hardcore. I don’t like the odds of HScott having a Monster season next year.

It’s a different pipeline. I only know this because there has been talk of the keystone pipeline starting again under trump. Not sure if he has stock in the company that was doing that pipeline too, but I would not doubt it.

I hope that some resolution comes from this decision that both sides can agree upon, even if neither is fully satisfied. There will need to be some serious work done by both people against the pipeline and those in favor of it to rebuild relationships in that area, because it’s not great right now. There’s a lot of…

Kapernick should have just kept kneeling in the 1st quarter if he wasn’t going to complete any passes.

His commitment to not being 7-9 this year is really impressive. If you don’t run an offense, you won’t get close to 7. Looking forward to him taking his rightful place as biggest loser in NFL.

I think it’s called being a rich white leading man.

It was moved not because the town was white, but because of the environmental impact of a leak near a larger population center and that route went closer to water intake than this does. They chose a largely rural route with the current path. Not saying that there hasn’t been any racism involved, but there are…

I’ve seen some quotes recently about some of the white people joining the camp from around the country just treating this as burning man or some other type of thing they need to experience. It’s pissing off the people committed to the cause of clean water.

Not all the protesters are peaceful. The chairman of the standing rock tribe has said so himself.

Taxpayer dollars are only being spent in North Dakota on local police. Money from anywhere else isn’t being used for this as the corps doesn’t have a physical presence at the protests. That doesn’t mean that the federal government won’t give the state money to pay for law enforcement under trump, but they haven’t yet.

This isn’t reservation land. The land is Army Corps land. They claim it from an old treaty, but as a right now the land is not part of the standing rock reservation. The governor can make that declaration for this area.