That proposal required an environmental assessment. With this project, they broke it down into hundreds of little projects that do not require one. They literally used a legal double standard.
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While it is true that the land is not “legally” a part of the reservation (legally in serious side eye quotes) the land was indeed originally under the ownership of the tribe in treaties from the 1850s that were predictably not upheld. Their land has been stolen from them.
Also, the possible (likely, in fact) environmental damage would be catastrophic for people who live on the tribal lands. Most depend on hunting, fishing, gardens, well water and streams, and on the tribe leasing open space to ranchers for grazing. Even with these things, poverty is endemic. Oil leaks polluting wells…
Meanwhile white male hooligans with rifles get to hold federal lands hostage for weeks and get off scot free.
It’s not, in fact, tribal land of that’s what you’re asking. The initial objection was that the proposed structure endangered tribal land, because it’s directly north, upstream, and pipelines frequently leak. Also, the plans included demolition of traditionally sacred sites that the tribe doesn’t legally own, because…
Guess what. Given the way he and his kids have been meeting with (read: threatening) media and foreign leaders the past couple of weeks, the reactions of the new American Nazis, the freshly-emboldened bullies of every variety, and the way Congress is getting all sorts of nightmare legislation prepared, it’s already…
No, that was Dubya’s America, since the odious practice of corralling protesters into restricted areas where their protests would cause no disruptions to the regular business of America — which, in this case, is “fearmongering about immigrants to gain an unbreakable majority that then systematically destroys the…
THIS THIS THIS. The attitude of “I’ll take anything besides our current government/status quo” IS A FUCKING BAD ONE.
My Facebook newsfeed is full of rational, left leaning friends celebrating the death of a Dictator. He ceased to be a “revolutionary hero” long ago yet the romance lives on...
Looks like Trump did what Kennedy, Carter, and Clinton couldn’t.
As Philip J. Fry once said: “I have no opinion.”
Typical government bureaucracy.
You did not acquit yourself well here.
“it has to go somewhere.”
Yeah, I have to say that I still disagree. Even after reading the article. I don’t think it’s propaganda for the protesters to point out that the pipe was proposed to run one direction, and then ran another. Propaganda indicates that there is a willingness to lie or distort facts in order to show your cause in a…
No, but I never claimed to. All I said was that you should put your thumb back up your pooper.
Natural gas, as dangerous as it is, isn’t nearly as dangerous as having an oil pipeline going through there. And also, by your logic, because they couldn’t stop one dangerous pipeline, that means it’s open season and other pipelines are fine? Really? That’s like saying “Well, this previous environmental thing caused…
What a shitty human being you are. Just shameless.
Eh, put that thumb back up your ass, Stig.