Hundreds gather outside TD Bank to protest Trumps pipeline order
Source: Bangor Daily News
BANGOR, Maine — Less than a week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order clearing the way for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, more than 250 Mainers from Greater Bangor and beyond lined the drive leading to TD Bank’s branch on Stillwater Avenue to protest the corporate office’s role in financing the project.
TD Bank was targeted because it is one of 17 banks financing the project, but the only one with a local presence, according to Karen Marysdaughter of the Peace & Justice of Eastern Maine, which organized the protest along with members of Maine’s Native American tribes, the Land Peace Foundation, the Bangor Racial and Economic Justice Coalition, Community Water Justice and others opposed to the project.
“As a proponent of responsible energy development, TD works closely with clients, local communities and environmental groups to enhance our understanding of key issues and promote informed dialogue, TD Bank spokeswoman Judith Schmidt said in a statement. “We support efforts to ensure the sustainability and safety of the Dakota Access Pipeline site. And we respect the rights of those who wish to voice their opinions in peaceful protest.”
The 1,172-mile pipeline being built by a group of companies led by Energy Transfer Partners LP would offer the fastest and most direct route to bring Bakken shale oil from North Dakota to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.
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since you are now considered a viable person under the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling called Citizens United, I and thousands of other of Indigenous blood and millions of others that don't trust your words of hypocrisy we want your Bank to stand outside and drink water that is fracked, and shipped and mined into pipelines. Then tell us that you will work with us, its nothing more than empty words, they are lies
I want to see this Bank stand there like a human being and drink the water of life, that is polluted, and since your a f***ing proponent and you want to work closely with environmental groups, what you said is nothing more than BS coming out of your mouth of dirty energy, it means nothing, its empty words of BS.
Really, Judith Schmidt, why don't you take your millions and create jobs on the Pine Ridge and Standing Rock Reservations, you do realize that the Lakota on those reservations are the poorest in the nation, you do know this don't you?
You do realize the during the annual (“tatanka”) buffalo hunt this coming spring the water of the Missouri river is used to float down to the people the “tatanka” or buffalo!!!! Do you understand what this means in the water is life circle?
You do realize this don't you, how can this be done if it is polluted. Do you think sitting in a restaurant is the same thing-------don't think so.
Why don't you comply with the treaties of 1846, 1876 Laramie, and other treaties and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
You have nothing but empty words they are more BS, so in essence FU TD Bank
