The Pros And Cons Of The Dakota Access Pipeline

The Dakota access pipeline is an affliction to everyone who has a sense of compassion and understanding, especially to indigenous people who are being taxed with decisions and demands from careless people who conceal their true intentions with false facts and reasonings,when all they care about is the green in promising. Recently the $3.8 billion project has become one of America's most followed up protest, for it keeps gaining many people's attention with every protest and support. There are hundreds of people every day at the construction site, and protests are held in others states like Chicago, New York, and Washington. Native Americans and their supporters have been protesting since July 2014, when they first learned about the protest, and since then their cries for help have had minimum effect on the process of the pipeline. Everyone will have a time in their life when they have to be as tenacious as they can be to stand up for their rights and beliefs. …show more content…
The Dakota Access Pipeline is known for its worth and that a source of motivation for Energy Transfer Partners CEO Kelcy Warren. And in return Native Americans have thousands of supporters behind their backs who know and understand their pain, and are willing to make the pipelines construction area their second home, just to ensure that their peaceful protest is acknowledged. “Things are changing and it's because people are letting go of a lot of pain and suffering that has existed for so many years, and we cannot it's our civic and civil responsibility especially me as a non-native to recognize what my ancestors did to native Americans in this country and what I refuse to let continue to happen to native Americans in this country.” (Shailene