Originally posted by mrsleeve
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More to the point, the Standing Rock Sioux argue that under federal law, the US government should have consulted extensively with the tribe about these issues — and didn’t. On July 27, the Standing Rock Sioux and the nonprofit Earthjustice sued the Army Corps of Engineers in federal court, arguing that the agency had wrongly approved the pipeline without adequate consultation.
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In their complaint, filed on July 27, the Standing Rock Sioux argued that the Army Corps of Engineers handed out water permits too hastily and only consulted with the tribe on a narrow set of potential impacts. (The tribe ended up sitting out much of the consultation process in protest.) The tribe also argued that Dakota Access used out-of-state experts to survey the lands beforehand, and so missed a whole bunch of culturally significant archaeological discoveries along the pipeline’s path.
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In their complaint, filed on July 27, the Standing Rock Sioux argued that the Army Corps of Engineers handed out water permits too hastily and only consulted with the tribe on a narrow set of potential impacts. (The tribe ended up sitting out much of the consultation process in protest.) The tribe also argued that Dakota Access used out-of-state experts to survey the lands beforehand, and so missed a whole bunch of culturally significant archaeological discoveries along the pipeline’s path.
Seems like their concerns have been getting ignored for awhile and they've been unhappy about it from the beginning. So your statement about now not being the time is null and void, they've been protesting it from the beginning. As they've continued to get ignored it's become a bigger and bigger issue. And that's usually the way anything works, from pipeline permits to headgaskets on an m20.
Also, the alternative pipeline routing being rejected because it was too close to the city's water supply but then routing it right next to the reservation is just mean. And really, it doesn't matter why theses pipes burst, it just matters that it does actually happen. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. I wouldn't be happy about a pipeline that close to my land as well.
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