Standing Rock

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• Army Corps of Engineers Confirms Native Protesters Are Right — There Is No Written Easement for Dakota Access Pipeline
  Jeremiah Jones, Counter Current News, August 29, 2016 In the wake of hundreds of people protesting a couple weeks ago, Energy transfer Partners, the company attempting to construct the Dakota Access Pipeline, voluntarily stopped work at the building site just North of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
• Civil Disobedience in Iowa Against Dakota Access Pipeline
  KCCI, Earth First Newswire, Sept 1, 2016 Protesters line the street as visitors to the Farm Progress Show stream past during a protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline at one of the entrances to a staging area used by Precision Pipeline, the builder of the oil pipeline, in Boone, Iowa, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)
• Diane Rehm Show - What’s Next For The Dakota Access Pipeline And The Fight For Tribal Rights
  Diane Rehm Show, Sept 14, 2016 At the Sacred Stone Camp, near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation In North Dakota, thousands of people from more than 200 Native American tribes have joined the protest against a pipeline that would carry crude oil from the Dakotas through Iowa to Illinois. And more demonstrations have emerged across the country this week. They say the project would damage drinking water and sacred ground. The Texas company behind the pipeline says it poses no risk, and a judge ruled last week that the stakeholders went beyond their legal obligations to get approval for it. Meanwhile, an order from the Obama administration has halted construction of the pipeline around certain waterways near the reservation. The controversy has sparked a renewed conversation over how energy projects are approved—and who is involved in the process. What’s next for the Dakota Access Pipeline and how infrastructure decisions are made in the U.S. Guests Brian Cladoosby president, National Congress of American Indians; president, Association of Washington Tribes. Amy Harder reporter covering energy and climate policy, The Wall Street Journal Kandi Mossett representative, Indigenous Environmental Network. She's been at the camps near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation for the past six weeks. Christi Tezak Managing Director of Research, Clearview Energy Partners LLC Frederick Hoxie Swanlund Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, focused on indigenous politics and American social and political history; author, "This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made"; co-author, "The People: A History of Native America." Website has a Statement From Energy Transfer Partners
• Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”
  Alleen Brown, Will Parrish, Alice Speri. The Intercept, May 27, 2017 A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first detailed picture of how TigerSwan, which originated as a U.S. military and State Department contractor helping to execute the global war on terror, worked at the behest of its client Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline, to respond to the indigenous-led movement that sought to stop the project.
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Condemns Destruction and Desecration of Burial Grounds by Energy Transfer Partners
  Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Indian Country, Sept 4, 2016 Sacred places containing ancient burial sites, places of prayer and other significant cultural artifacts of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe were destroyed on Saturday September 3 by Energy Transfer Partners, Tribal Chairman David Archambault II said.
• Tribe challenging pipeline has some advantages in courtroom
  Josh Funk, Associated Press, Sept 8, 2016 The American Indians challenging an oil pipeline that would cross four states have some legal advantages in a courtroom, particularly their tribe's status as a sovereign nation with long ties to the land in question. But stopping a project like the Dakota Access pipeline after construction has begun is difficult. And even if the Standing Rock Sioux win in federal court, the result might simply be an altered route.