New Investigation Names Wall Street Banks Behind $3.8 Billion Dakota Access Pipeline

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http://m.democracynow.org/stories/16593

Over 1,000 people representing more than 100 tribes are gathered along the Cannonball River by the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to resist the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. It’s been described as the largest unification of Native American tribes in decades. On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they resisted the construction of the $3.8 billion pipeline on a sacred tribal burial site. Saturday was also the first day of a two-week call for actions against the financial institutions that are bankrolling the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline project. A new investigation has revealed that more than two dozen major banks and financial institutions are helping finance the Dakota Access pipeline. The investigation was published by the research outlet LittleSis. It details how Bank of America, HSBC, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions have, combined, extended a $3.75 billion credit line to Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of Dakota Access. For more, we speak with the author of this investigation, Hugh MacMillan, a senior researcher with Food & Water Watch.

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[annabanana]

1. Democracy Now does some damn fine work. . . n/t

[rdking647]

2. there is some dispute about how peaceful the protestors where

the local sheriff doesnt agree they were peaceful
Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said in a statement that “individuals crossed onto private property and accosted private security officers with wooden posts and flag poles.”

“Any suggestion that today’s event was a peaceful protest, is false,” his statement said

[G_j]

3. He is a liar

they desperately wish the nonviolent activists would resort to violence, but they simply won't. They have desperately tried to provoke violence, but have failed.

[niyad]

5. can you cite actual evidence from legitimate, reliable sources to back up his bs claims?

[niyad]

4. k and r and colour me sooooooo not surprised.