The Flint Water Crisis depicts the inevitable consequence of allowing the continued construction of the Dakota Access pipeline. The polluted water calamity is flooding one of Michigan’s poorest, blackest cities. This disaster is littered with racism and the detrimental results of poverty. The city is approximately 57 percent black and terribly poor; it’s citizens have been consuming and interacting with water that contains enough lead to meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s definition of “toxic waste.” Officials failed to apply corrosion inhibitors and proper regulatory policy, resulting in its drinking water becoming culminated with lead, creating a serious public health hazard. Negligence from city officials caused lead from aging
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This is due to the fact that environmental evaluation that was implemented to assess the impact of the pipeline on its environment was insufficient. The Army Corps of Engineers has disregarded federal regulations and official treaties between Native American tribes. The subsequent operator of the pipeline, Sunoco Logistics, has spilled unrefined oil from its pipelines more than any other US pipeline contractor, with a total of 3406 net barrels spilled. Farmers are distressed over the possible land upheaval. Mangled pipes, stemming from areas prone to flooding, could cause another water crisis. Recently, the media has began to promote the idea that the Native tribes being affected by the Dakota Access pipeline have faced a victory. But, in actuality, the fight isn’t over and they haven’t won. The Army Corps of Engineers has declined to grant the easement for Energy Transfer Partners' drilling under Lake Oahe. This isn't the same as its outright denial. Ultimately, they will perform a limited Environmental Impact Study before allowing the drilling. The study could take months. The Army Corps of Engineering has not solved this immense problem, but has filled a gaping wound with enough gauze to dissipate media coverage and send false activists home. The Dakota Access Pipeline is being built …show more content…
Racism touches every institution; therefore, you can’t extract race out of decisions made by bureaucrats when power arrangements between whites and people of color are unequal. A lot of people say it’s class, but race and class are allied. As a result, people of color and low-income communities face a disproportionate amount of toxic contamination as a result of pollution throughout their neighborhoods.
People of color have been left out of public consciousness. The protests at Standing Rock are an effort to prevent the construction of a lethal machine, perpetuated by greed-driven people with no regard for native lives. The pipeline was redirected from an area where it was most likely to impact the ninety percent white population of Bismarck, North Dakota. Moreover, that population opposed the hazard the pipeline presented for their drinking water, their concerns were obliged, and the pipeline was dumped into indigenous
This is due to the fact that environmental evaluation that was implemented to assess the impact of the pipeline on its environment was insufficient. The Army Corps of Engineers has disregarded federal regulations and official treaties between Native American tribes. The subsequent operator of the pipeline, Sunoco Logistics, has spilled unrefined oil from its pipelines more than any other US pipeline contractor, with a total of 3406 net barrels spilled. Farmers are distressed over the possible land upheaval. Mangled pipes, stemming from areas prone to flooding, could cause another water crisis. Recently, the media has began to promote the idea that the Native tribes being affected by the Dakota Access pipeline have faced a victory. But, in actuality, the fight isn’t over and they haven’t won. The Army Corps of Engineers has declined to grant the easement for Energy Transfer Partners' drilling under Lake Oahe. This isn't the same as its outright denial. Ultimately, they will perform a limited Environmental Impact Study before allowing the drilling. The study could take months. The Army Corps of Engineering has not solved this immense problem, but has filled a gaping wound with enough gauze to dissipate media coverage and send false activists home. The Dakota Access Pipeline is being built …show more content…
Racism touches every institution; therefore, you can’t extract race out of decisions made by bureaucrats when power arrangements between whites and people of color are unequal. A lot of people say it’s class, but race and class are allied. As a result, people of color and low-income communities face a disproportionate amount of toxic contamination as a result of pollution throughout their neighborhoods.
People of color have been left out of public consciousness. The protests at Standing Rock are an effort to prevent the construction of a lethal machine, perpetuated by greed-driven people with no regard for native lives. The pipeline was redirected from an area where it was most likely to impact the ninety percent white population of Bismarck, North Dakota. Moreover, that population opposed the hazard the pipeline presented for their drinking water, their concerns were obliged, and the pipeline was dumped into indigenous