Militarized Police Escalate Fight Against Water Protectors, 35 Arrested

‘Following the U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision to reject a permanent injunction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a group of heavily militarized police arrested twenty-seven people on Monday and nine on Tuesday.
On Sunday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied the Standing Rock Sioux’s request for a permanent injunction to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The DAPL is owned by Dallas, Texas-based corporation Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., which created the subsidiary Dakota Access LLC. The pipeline will stretch 1,172 miles upon completion and transport crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois.
The project is set to cross the Missouri River, within a half-mile of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The Oceti Sakowin, Sacred Stone and Red Warrior Camp’s were formed in opposition to the pipeline due to threats to sacred sites and the Missouri River.’
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