The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), also known as the Bakken pipeline because of the area where it begins, will transport 470,000 barrels of crude oil 1,168 miles every day from hydraulic fracturing sites in northwestern North Dakota down to Illinois, if built. There are conflicting reports as to whether the oil would be used in this country or if it would be exported.
The current route of the pipeline is less than half of a mile from the Sioux’s reservation border. All along the route of the pipeline are sites of religious and cultural significance to the indigenous people, including burial sites of their ancestors. The pipeline would cross the tribe’s traditional and ancestral lands and the construction of the underground pipeline jeopardizes …show more content…
Why is money more important to the Dakota Access Company than the planet or the people living there? When will the time come for the capitalist bullshit to fade away and for us to truly put our focus on bettering our lands and the people who first lived on them?
Currently, President Obama has put a stop to the pipeline but hasn’t rejected it like he has the Keystone XL pipeline of the past. He is looking at ways it can be rerouted and is monitoring the situation as of this week.
With this, I ask for your help. There are many things you, the average citizen, can do: sign the petition to tell President Obama to permanently stop construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 to tell President Obama to Stand with Standing Rock and “deny the easement to the Dakota Access Pipeline.”
Donate to Standing Rock Sioux to sustain the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline. Protest in your local community, in your online spaces, and in any way you can. Inform your friends, family, classmates, strangers about why the DAPL sucks, and what we need to do to fix it! Your voice matters and your voice can add to the collective that can change
The current route of the pipeline is less than half of a mile from the Sioux’s reservation border. All along the route of the pipeline are sites of religious and cultural significance to the indigenous people, including burial sites of their ancestors. The pipeline would cross the tribe’s traditional and ancestral lands and the construction of the underground pipeline jeopardizes …show more content…
Why is money more important to the Dakota Access Company than the planet or the people living there? When will the time come for the capitalist bullshit to fade away and for us to truly put our focus on bettering our lands and the people who first lived on them?
Currently, President Obama has put a stop to the pipeline but hasn’t rejected it like he has the Keystone XL pipeline of the past. He is looking at ways it can be rerouted and is monitoring the situation as of this week.
With this, I ask for your help. There are many things you, the average citizen, can do: sign the petition to tell President Obama to permanently stop construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Call the White House at (202) 456-1111 to tell President Obama to Stand with Standing Rock and “deny the easement to the Dakota Access Pipeline.”
Donate to Standing Rock Sioux to sustain the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline. Protest in your local community, in your online spaces, and in any way you can. Inform your friends, family, classmates, strangers about why the DAPL sucks, and what we need to do to fix it! Your voice matters and your voice can add to the collective that can change