Dakota Pipeline Project

First of all, the Dakota Access Pipeline can threaten Native American health and welfare, especially if it is forced into their environment. According to the New Yorker,

The Dakota Access Pipeline is an oil pipeline that will run just half a mile outside of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers have approved the project, despite concerns from the tribe and others

With recent event the Obama’s Administration has halted the further construction of the North Dakota Access pipeline. This event have sparked the nation into an uprise in protests and public speaking against North Dakota Access. Now thrusted out onto a global stage, the struggle on both sides intensifies either is not going to stand down. The people of Standing Rock Indian Reservation are protesting against North Dakota Access to continue construction of the “North Dakota Access Pipeline”. Additionally the Army Corps of Engineers has denied the permit that allows construction underneath the Mississippi and Missouri River. These events have now escalated to national attention. It is not in the public safety or well being to have further construction or completion of the North Dakota Access Pipeline should it have negative environmental impacts and be harmful to the American people. ("Federal Government Halts Construction Of Part Of North Dakota Pipeline.")

For the most part, everyone is pretty familiar with the Dakota Access Pipeline and the protests that surround it. A 1,172 mile pipeline project

(Sills) Therefore, the pipeline would create further problems in the future involving enviromental issues which is why it shouldn’t be built at all. Another piece of evidence from an article provided by CNN claiming how the pipeline endangers wildlife habitat. The Dakota Access pipeline would carry 450,000 barrels of dirty oil per day from North Dakota to Illinois and cut through fragile wildlife habitat, enviromentally sensitive areas and sovereign tribal property. (Yan) The pipeline not only endangers people’s land but animals habitat and potentially their lives. It shows the ignorance of damaging wildlife and adding on to the enviromental problems we as a community already have to be concerned over. These evidentail pieces provide the ways the Dakota Access pipeline could potentially endanger are enviroment now and in the upcoming months ahead. While thousands of protesters contribute to refusing the Dakota Access pipeline construction to continue because of enviromental issues as well as invading the Sioux tribes land, the Army Corps of Engineers claims that not only will it benefit more oil but the route is a safer and more enviromentally friendly way of moving oil to other transportations such as railroads and

The Dakota Access pipeline claims to be a $3.7 billion project that would carry 470,000 barrels of oil per day. From the oil field of western North Dakota to Illinois where it will be link to other pipelines. The pipeline is speculated to create 8000-12,000 construction jobs as well as pump millions of dollars into local economies. In contrast, members of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sees the pipeline as a major environmental and cultural threat. They say it is routed over ancestral land where their forebears hunted and fished and were buried. They argue the pipeline could desecrate their ancestral burial grounds and also contaminate

There has been a great amount of pushback from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, a Native American group in North Dakota, against the instillation of an oil pipeline by Dakota Access. According to tribal leaders, the installation of this pipeline will damage the tribe’s water supply, and will disrupt areas that have great cultural significance to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. The land is regarded as sacred to the tribe members, and the construction will tarnish the land. At this moment, there is no final decision regarding the completion of the pipeline (Cite).

The DAPL has mainly been constructed on private land. However, some of the pipeline crosses under or near waterways that are managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the Federal government. And some of this land is near the Standing Rock Sioux tribe who argues that the pipeline will destroy undiscovered artifacts and could potentially cause contamination to the tribes major water sources. There have been protests of the building of the pipeline near Lake Oahe because that is the tribe 's main source of water. The protesters think that they have the right to be on the land where they are protesting because it was given to the tribe in the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie which was immediately broken. The settlers, at the time continued to take their land and much of it remained in the settlers hands and has since been sold or inherited by family members. The natives still believe it is

Because of this very reason, many citizens, especially passionate environmentalists, have taken interests on this matter because it jeopardizes our environmental welfare in exchange for mere money. This claim is actually possible concerning that nothing can really be perfect; that this pipeline will eventually have problems that can significantly affect us. As said before, professionals have worked and are currently working on this pipeline plan. Trusting someone who is credible enough to be a specialists on something is better than judging based on one’s unproven probability. Since the US Army Corps Engineers, the federal government, and oil company who is in charge for this claim that DAPL, “ will be among the safest, most technologically advanced pipelines in the world,” and still pushes for this project to continue, when the worst actually happens they can be sued for the infringement of: National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, Clean Water Act of 1972, Endangered species act of 1973, National Environment Policy Act of 1969, and Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 (“Checking the Facts Once Again”). Knowing that they will be facing these charges if,

To me, it just seems as though the pipeline will only give the government more power. The fact that the government will be able to possess private property needed for the pipeline without the owner's consent, (The Government Quietly Just Approved This Enormous Oil Pipeline, 2016), doesn't seem right. I'm also very concerned about the affect it will have on the native people. I don't think it's a good idea to put the water supply of the Native American Sioux Tribe in danger. It's not right to put their lives on hold just because this pipeline is being built. Considering the fact that the Dakota Access DAPL may have exaggerated the amount of jobs that the pipeline will create, (The Government Quietly Just Approved This Enormous Oil Pipeline, 2016), I don't think the Dakota Access pipeline is worth

An old Sioux prophecy once stated that a black snake will cross the great Sioux land. The black snake would come at a great time of uncertainty and destroy the world as we know it. It also states the only way to stop this black snake is for the youth to come together and stop it. Many protestors, commonly referred as water protectors, believe this black snake has arrived in the form of the Dakota Access Pipeline. In the beginning of the year 2016 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers published a draft of it plan to approve the Dakota Access Pipeline route under the Missouri River. This has sparked controversy between the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and the company building the pipeline, Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners. This has led to many Native American gathering in protest against the pipeline.

Should the Dakota Access Pipeline be built? Because of so many protesting acts going on, it really shouldn't be built. Police keep attacking Native Americans and other protesters. If the protesters keep fighting them they'll have to give up on everything and cancel the pipeline once and for all. I'm sure that all of you hate people getting hurt for this so, we need more people to come and help us stop this once and for all. With every single person down the Mississippi River with one burst the water and everything could get poisoned so, everybody couldn't drink the water until it was cleaned out. With this pipeline their could be a burst and many people could get sick.

The projected Dakota Access Pipeline would be beneficial for various reasons. To start, this huge creation would be 1,172 miles long and run "from North Dakota's northwest Bakken region down to a market hub outside Patoka, Illinois" (Mother Jones). With this being said, the construction of this massive pipeline would provide an estimated 12,000 jobs. In addition, crude oil would be able "to reach major refining companies in a more direct, cost-effective, safer and environmentally responsible manner" (Dakota Access Pipeline). To support the demand for crude oil now, railroads and trucks are transporting it to major U.S. markets. However, if this pipeline were to be approved it

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 environment is a very important thing to take care of and can be very fragile. In the recent years humanity hasn’t been doing much to take care of the earth, and instead is destroying it in the name of progress. One of the harmful things that could really impact the environment is the North Dakota Pipeline. Some facts about the pipeline is that it is owned by Energy Transfer Partners who are the owners of Sunoco. Sunoco has had multiple onshore pipeline leaks and disasters that have devastated many environments. The planned pipeline is going to be 1,134 miles long and will cut through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois, by doing that it crosses fifty counties in total. Pipelines in general aren’t really the most reliable things