Oil pipeline protest turns violent in southern North Dakota
Source: Associated Press
Oil pipeline protest turns violent in southern North Dakota
James Macpherson, Associated Press
Updated 12:31 am, Sunday, September 4, 2016
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A protest of a four-state, $3.8 billion oil pipeline turned violent Saturday after tribal officials say construction crews destroyed American Indian burial and cultural sites on private land in southern North Dakota.
Morton County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Donnell Preskey said four private security guards and two guard dogs were injured after several hundred protesters confronted construction crews Saturday afternoon at the site just outside the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. One of the security officers was taken to a Bismarck hospital for undisclosed injuries. The two guard dogs were taken to a Bismarck veterinary clinic, Preskey said.
Tribe spokesman Steve Sitting Bear said protesters reported that six people had been bitten by security dogs, including a young child. At least 30 people were pepper-sprayed, he said. Preskey said law enforcement authorities had no reports of protesters being injured.
There were no law enforcement personnel at the site when the incident occurred, Preskey said. The crowd disbursed when officers arrived and no one was arrested, she said.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Oil-pipeline-protest-turns-violent-in-southern-9202307.php
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them turn their dogs on the protesters and pepper spray them, and physically assaulting the people.
So damned dirty. The corporation hires violent buffoons to go harm human beings. This has been happening for centuries, and it doesn't seem to have changed a bit after we started thinking of ourselves as "civilized" and "Number One!" or the "Shining City on the ####ing Hill."
The company behind this filthy activity is Dakota Access LLC. I'd like to find out more about that bunch of monsters later.
Here's something I did spot:
Senator Promoting Dakota Access Pipeline Invests In Bakken Oil Wells Named After Indian Tribe
By Steve Horn • Thursday, September 1, 2016 - 14:11
U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-ND) recently came out in support of the Dakota Access pipeline, the hotly contested Energy Transfer Partners-owned pipeline envisioned to move oil obtained via hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) from North Dakota's Bakken Shale basin. As the pipeline transports oil across North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois, it will cross farms, natural areas, and perhaps most notably, ancestral lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which is one of several tribes disagreeing with Sen. Hoeven's assessment that this pipeline is “infrastructure we need.”
What Sen. Hoeven — an outspoken supporter of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline — did not mention, however, is his personal investment in 68 different oil-producing wells in North Dakota under the auspices of the company Mainstream Investors, LLC according to his most recent congressional personal financial disclosure form.
Seventeen of those wells are owned by Continental Resources, the company whose CEO Harold Hamm also serves as a campaign energy adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Those wells have a value of between $11,000–$171,000, and 14 of them, named Wahpeton, are located within 18 miles of the Dakota Access Watford City terminal site.
In a twist of irony, Wahpeton is part of the namesake of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe, whose reservation sits in southeast North Dakota and northeast South Dakota. The tribe passed a resolution in 2014 in opposition to the building of the Dakota Access pipeline.
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Hoeven is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, where he has the responsibility to ensure tribal concerns are heard and adequately addressed. However, not all of his constituents feel he is living up to this role.
More:
http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/09/01/john-hoeven-dakota-access-pipeline-investments
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Racist fascist pigs! 
