Dakota Pipeline Debate

One of the most controversial issues faced nowadays is the way we deal with the transport of oil. One of the proposed methods is The Keystone XL Pipeline. Although there are some pros associated with building the pipeline, the risk outweighs the benefits by far. Building the Keystone XL pipeline would negatively affect the environment, jeopardize the public health and is to no benefit to the American people.

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe believes that there is a great risk of the pipeline leaking into the water source, even though there is already pipelines located below the Missouri River they do not want any more new oil pipelines to endanger their sacred burial land. They are at great risk of environmental damage and poisoning the people that use this water on a daily by putting this pipeline below Lake Oahe. Most of the 1,200 mile long Dakota Access Pipeline has already been built except for the last piece that is going directly under Lake Oahe, construction has been further halted because of the protesters and their supporters. They halted the construction of the pipeline because of the protest camps that were set up right near the construction site, located near the Missouri River.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a problem for the natives, but obviously not for us Americans. Energy transfer quote that “Some protesters stayed overnight what looked like dog kennels and were let out in the morning”. This is why we need to stop the construction of this pipeline because it could leak and contaminate the water, the pipeline would be going through sacred grounds, and we need to stop the violence against the native protesters.

The Dakota Access Pipeline needs to be stopped. Recently, Bernie Sanders called upon the Obama administration to cease the Dakota Access Pipeline, if he can ask that of Obama, why can’t either of the presidential candidates. It’s appalling to find out that Clinton hasn’t said a word. This is big news in the country right now. Native Americans from all over the United States have never come together, not in a 100 years, like they have for the Dakota Access Pipeline protest. This pipeline sparked up enough for that to happen, so shouldn’t something be done.

Ultimately, the Dakota Access Pipeline will only harm the people and environment. It will be seen as disrespect to Native Americans, release excessive amount of carbon into the atmosphere, and cause even more violent protests. This can all be resolved be rerouting the pipeline to go around the sacred burial site. Our Native Americans are a part of our country too, we wouldn’t want our peace with them to be disrupted for a simple

Have you heard about the protest going on about the North Dakota Pipelines? Encase you haven't here is some information and views on it. First who’s fighting? Well, that simple members from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, well that’s how it started off anyways, now there is several hundred Native Americans from all over the country. Since April they have been gathering outside of Cannon Ball to protest.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a pipeline that moves crude oil from the west side of North Dakota to the border of Illinois and Canada. There is a lot of controversy around it because it runs right past The Great Sioux Reservation. The Reservation has had many problems with the US Government throughout the years. Many people are protesting the construction of it, much to their prevail, Obama’s administration delayed its construction.

Since September of 2016 thousands of peaceful protesters had come to support the NoDAPL hashtag trend while fighting off police intrusion and violence. It brung up media’s attention and Army Corps of Engineers had begun to develop a way to accommodate rerouting the pipeline for the purpose of not contaminating the Missouri River. However, on January 24, 2017 newly elected president Donald Trump signed a memo to allow the original route of the Dakota Access Pipeline to go through the rivers and the Sioux’s burial grounds. While the pipeline would benefit supplies of oil to our country, it disrespects Native Americans’ cultural history and beliefs as well as damages the environment. Many Native American’s have cultural artifacts and religious customs that mean great essence to their tribes and the people within them. By proceeding with the pipeline, it allows the indigenous people’s land to be torn and damage relics that apply a substanial amount of respect to their historical trials. The Sioux tribe has many religious traditions that are relative to their lands, one of which includes

What do you think about the Dakota Access Pipeline? The Dakota Access Pipeline (D.A.P.L) is for crude oil, but it crosses a body of water. If the pipeline were to break it could have catastrophic consequences to the water source it crosses. The pipeline should be built because although it has disadvantages, it also has many advantages that could help the U.S. have cleaner air.

Oil is a significant essential in this society because it runs automobiles such as cars, buses, truck etc. Without oil, transportation, business and economic trade wouldn’t be possible. “The Dakota Access Pipeline Project is a $3.78 billion conduit being built from the oil-rich Bakken fields in North Dakota. .transport up to 570,000 barrels a day of crude to refineries and markets in the Gulf and on the East Coast” (Ablow). The Dakota Access Pipeline is funded by Energy Transfer Partners. They believe that will have a huge impact on the economic state of the United States because it will “bring an estimated $156 million in sales and income taxes to state and local governments as well as add 8,000 to 12,000 construction jobs”(Park). With over 10,000 of jobs and $150 million dollars that would bring into this country, The Dakota Access Pipeline is a project that is beneficial to the local and national economy of the country. “In addition, the Dakota Access Pipeline will improve overall safety to the public and environment. It will reduce crude oil shipped by truck and by rail and increase the amount shipped by pipeline” (Energy Transfers). Minimizing the trucks in delivering oil will help to prevent global warming and climate change. After the pipeline was approved by the government, The members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protested near the construction of The Dakota Access Pipeline. The tribe members are deeply against the project because it would damage their

With this pipeline their has been violent acts from officers or other law enforcement personal. Protesters were going north up a bridge to get better positioning to hold camp when, the law enforcement started firing water at them, rubber bullets, and tear gas. Their were two cars on from when the violent acts happened and protesters had to move the burning cars off the bridge before it would spread anywhere else and ruin everything in its path. Now I don’t know why the officers made the protesters move the cars of the bridge but that's rude to me because, its going back to when America was racist to Native Americans making them do things that they didn't cause. One reporter said, “Every time I went out it felt really unsafe.” When a reporter says that then the officers are really trying their hardest to build this pipeline to Illinois.(Park and

Native Americans are being disrespected, harmed, and their homeland is being taken from them. Am I talking about events taken place centuries ago? No, because these unfortunate circumstances yet again are occurring right here, now, in the present. This horrid affair has a name: The Dakota Access Pipeline. This Pipeline is an oil transporting pipeline, which is funded by the U.S Army Corps of Engineers, who have devised a plan for the pipeline to run through the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. However, unfortunately, this pipeline will run straight through the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe, expressing their distress for the pipeline have said, that the pipeline will be “Destroying our burial sites, prayer sites, and culturally significant artifacts,” Arguments for the pipeline however have tried to counter this claim, trying to emphasize that “The pipeline wouldn 't just be an economic boon, it would also significantly decrease U.S. reliance on foreign oil”, and that the pipeline is estimated to produce “374.3 million gallons of gasoline per day.”, which could help the sinking oil economy. (Yan, 2016) However, despite the economical growth it could achieve, the Dakota Access Pipeline could have damaging environmental effects on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the areas surrounding.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is an underground oil pipeline project that is designed to transport crude oil in the safest, most efficient way possible. The pipeline will run under Lake Oahe and the Missouri River. It is expected to be able to carry approximately 470,000 barrels of crude oil over 1,172 miles from North Dakota wells, through South Dakota and Iowa, ending at a shipping port in Illinois CITATION Sam17 l 1033 (Sampathkumar). The pipeline is needed for our own energy independence and has been designed to improve the overall safety to the public. However, many opponents have voiced, and even protested, concerns regarding the construction of the pipeline and the environmental issues it may cause to the Standing Rock Sioux Indian reservation.

In this article of “We are protector, not protesters”, I feel that there are pro and con action to construct a pipeline from Cannonball to Missouri rivers. The good part of constructing the pipeline would be easy to transfer the oil from one side to the other. Also, the oil business companies will get the benefit from this project. The bad part of constructing this pipeline is possibility having problems with their environments. In my opinion, I believe that the pipeline for the oil can pollute the land for farmers, can contaminate drinking water and can affect people who live in that area. The protesters have the right to voice their opinions on this matter because they trying to protect for the

The Dakota Access Pipeline should not be completed because it doesn't created long term jobs. Estimated construction jobs for the Dakota Pipeline are deceptive because they are infrequently accurate and the jobs are short term. The job estimates fluctuated between 26,000 and 13,000. Eventually, the project will employ around 21,000 people, however only during the highest construction times and that ultimately only last two summers. Therefore, the Dakota Pipeline may create jobs but almost all will be temporary. For instance, TransCanada, the company behind Keystone XL, authorized the