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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/dakota-access-pipeline-protests.html?_r=0
To Ms. Bailey, 76, and thousands of other tribal members who lived along the rivers length, the project was a cultural catastrophe, residents and historians say. It displaced families, uprooted cemeteries and swamped lands where tribes grazed cattle, drove wagons and gathered wild grapes and medicinal tea.
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Even though its been more than half a century, they still feel this loss, said Michael L. Lawson, the author of Dammed Indians, a history of the governments dam projects along the Missouri. He said about 56,000 acres of Standing Rock Sioux land had been condemned for the dams and 190 families relocated. Theirs was one of 23 reservations affected by the project.
Just about every part of their economy and living situation was impacted, Mr. Lawson said. They lost their most important resources in the bottom lands.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oahe_Dam
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/08/15/dakota-access-pipeline-standoff-mni-wiconi-water-life-165470
Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners will build, own and operate the proposed $3.78 billion Dakota Access Pipeline and plans to transport up to 570,000 barrels of crude oil fracked from the Bakken oil fields across four states to a market hub in Illinois. The pipelinealready facing widespread opposition by a coalition of farmers, ranchers and environmental groupswill cross 209 rivers, creeks and tributaries, according to Dakota Access, LLC.
Standing Rock Sioux leaders say the pipeline will threaten the Missouri River, the tribes main source of drinking and irrigation water, and forever destroy burial grounds and sacred sites.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)is on the price of "clean" water for third world countries. Should we add both North and South America to the list? You decide.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)of "water investment."
They probably regard this as a win/win for them.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/9/who_is_funding_the_dakota_access
HUGH MACMILLAN: Well, Ive got a list of the 17 banks that are specifically providing financing for this project. And its also coupled together with a Energy TransferEnergy Transfer Partner project to convert an existing pipeline that would connect to the south end of the Dakota Access pipeline and run oil all the way down to the Gulf Coast, where there are refineries and also export infrastructure.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you tell us that list of 17 banks?
HUGH MACMILLAN: I can. Citibank is the bank thats been running the books on the project, and thats the bank that beat the bushes and got other banks to join in. So, we have Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, SunTrust, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Mizuho Bank, TD Securities, ABN AMRO Capital, DNB First Bankand thats actually a bank based in Philly; its not the DNB Bank based in Norway, which is actually provided several hundred million to the Energy Transfer family separatelyand ICBC London, SMBC Nikko Securities and Société Générale.
http://www.businessinsider.com/water-investing-2012-7
The discussion surrounding water investing is growing as the global population swells and water becomes an increasingly scarcer commodity.
Citi recently held a Water Investment Conference with several panel discussions featuring industry executives and portfolio managers investing in the water space. They released a report with the key takeaways from the panels.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)Of what is going on here.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Anyone know the latest hour that decision can be made?
I do fear for the Tribe either way this is decided, however.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)The fight won't end with today's decision.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/dapl-dakota-sitting-rock-sioux/499178/
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Sadly it such a racist area that all I heard when I asked about the ordeal was.." There's two sides to this story." And the concensus is that the Pipeline is necessary & "the "indians" have nothing to say about it going through". The Red State also thinks Trump is exactly what this country needs.
I could cry everytime I talk to them. Their kids talk the same way. They hate the KKK but don't realize they talk the same as the Supremacists do.
I have learned to stay far away.