Dakota Access Pipeline
Today's A to Z Challenge post brought to you by the letter... The Dakota Access Pipeline is supposed to be a more cost effective way to transport oil . Maybe it is, but in any case, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says that the pipe, which is supposed to run near their land, could contaminate not only important cultural sites but also their drinking water if it leaks (which has happened before in other sites). Another possible route was already rejected for passing too close to the drinking water of Bismarck . Is it all right to contaminate water if there are only a few people? And they’re all indigenous? It seems to be all right to sic dogs on them . And shoot rubber bullets at them, including a thirteen year old girl . The brief win which suspended construction was overturned by the “president,” who just happens to own stock in the company that is building the pipe . Because that isn’t a huge conflict of interest. Then a bill was put forward in North Dakota to exempt ...