A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota鈥檚 White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of the Giiwedinong Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota.
A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota鈥檚 White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of the Giiwedinong Museum in Park Rapids, Minnesota.
The Midwest ag industry is fearful that a shutdown of the Dakota Access oil pipeline could cripple grain transportation. A draft of an environmental impact statement could come this month.
Clean energy groups on the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota and Red Lake reservation in Minnesota were awarded $6.7 million in federal funding to build out electric vehicle infrastructure in the tribal communities.
These organizations plan for the arrests. They plan for the activities that will lead to the arrests. They force law enforcement into a quandary, forced to choose between allowing activists to trespass and harass and disrupt with impunity, or make mass arrests that will almost certainly be portrayed negatively.
The decision comes as a relief to a North Dakota oil industry that has been on edge over the fate of DAPL for the better part of a year, as well as a discouraging blow to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and environmental activists who have vigorously opposed the pipeline since its construction began in 2016.
In a much-anticipated federal court hearing on Friday, April 9, attorneys from the Department of Justice and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said they have not made up their minds on what to do about the embattled North Dakota pipeline, likely leaving its fate in the hands of a federal judge.
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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is seeking the closure of the Dakota Access pipeline, which can carry roughly 550,000 barrels of oil daily from North Dakota's shale region to the Midwest.
An attorney for Steve Martinez, a Bismarck resident, said he was arrested after being held in contempt of court for refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena for a federal investigation into the 2016 injury of another protester.
The letter, signed by more than 200 people including Indigenous leaders and activists and celebrities, calls on the administration to stop DAPL during a court-ordered environmental review of its effects on land near the Standing Rock Reservation.
The latest ruling comes just days after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, who has laid out an aggressive plan to address climate change that has generated anxiety among oil industry executives.
