Argumentative essay
The presence of intrusive oil pipelines have caused several negative effects. Will look at the battle over thousands of pipelines have become an environmental and cultural flash point, stirring passion across social media and drawing thousands of protesters to camp out in rural North Dakota. There are already an astonishing 9,000 new miles of pipelines underground (Halper,NO). The Dakota Access Pipeline creates negative effects on the mid-west.(add 3 Main points)
The Dakota access pipeline threatens the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux as well as millions of people downstream. North Dakota is not the only state affected, other states with pipelines also have the chance to either split or crack and poison the water. …show more content…
The Oceti Sakowin by treaty which includes groups of Native American tribes. Building the pipeline under the Oceti Sakowin could be a big risk. Tampering with sacred lands and destroying historical places isn’t outweighed by the need for a pipeline. It is too great of a cost for building a pipeline. Under the 1851 treaty of Laramie, the land that the pipeline is being built on is still unseeded and sovereign territory of the Oceti Sakowin. The government’s obligation should have consulted the pipeline before tearing up land that is historical. The Army Corps of Engineers said that "additional discussion and analysis are warranted in light of the history of the Great Sioux Nation's dispossessions of lands". (US Army Corps engineers) According to Ladonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Tribal Historian and director of the Camp of the Sacred Stones, the pipeline contractors are ignoring pending legal action taken by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other Oceti Sakowin tribes, treaty law," and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Construction of the pipeline has already damaged sacred burial sites and other culturally significant
The presence of intrusive oil pipelines have caused several negative effects. Will look at the battle over thousands of pipelines have become an environmental and cultural flash point, stirring passion across social media and drawing thousands of protesters to camp out in rural North Dakota. There are already an astonishing 9,000 new miles of pipelines underground (Halper,NO). The Dakota Access Pipeline creates negative effects on the mid-west.(add 3 Main points)
The Dakota access pipeline threatens the water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux as well as millions of people downstream. North Dakota is not the only state affected, other states with pipelines also have the chance to either split or crack and poison the water. …show more content…
The Oceti Sakowin by treaty which includes groups of Native American tribes. Building the pipeline under the Oceti Sakowin could be a big risk. Tampering with sacred lands and destroying historical places isn’t outweighed by the need for a pipeline. It is too great of a cost for building a pipeline. Under the 1851 treaty of Laramie, the land that the pipeline is being built on is still unseeded and sovereign territory of the Oceti Sakowin. The government’s obligation should have consulted the pipeline before tearing up land that is historical. The Army Corps of Engineers said that "additional discussion and analysis are warranted in light of the history of the Great Sioux Nation's dispossessions of lands". (US Army Corps engineers) According to Ladonna Brave Bull Allard, Standing Rock Tribal Historian and director of the Camp of the Sacred Stones, the pipeline contractors are ignoring pending legal action taken by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other Oceti Sakowin tribes, treaty law," and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Construction of the pipeline has already damaged sacred burial sites and other culturally significant