Tribes make renewed push for pipeline protections

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Blake Nicholson, Associated Press
Updated 1:45 pm, Thursday, November 16, 2017

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two American Indian tribes in the Dakotas are making a renewed push to bolster protections for their water supply while federal officials further study the potential impact of the recently completed Dakota Access oil pipeline.

Lawyers for the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes on Wednesday filed court documents urging a federal judge to reject the recent arguments of federal officials and the pipeline developer that the tribes' proposals are unnecessary or unwarranted.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is requiring the Army Corps of Engineers to further review the pipeline's impact on tribal interests, but he's allowing oil to continue flowing while that work is done over the next several months.

The tribes fear any oil spill beneath the Lake Oahe reservoir on the Missouri River would contaminate their water supply. They want additional protections including implementation of an emergency spill response plan that incorporates tribal input and includes equipment staging.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Tribes-make-renewed-push-for-pipeline-protections-12363160.php

[turbinetree]

1. Well I guess if this "judge" were to look at what happened just today in the Northeast corner of SD

in Marshal County and it proximity to the Minnesota Water river shed and the Minnesota River, and the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, that does feed into the Mississippi, what could possible go wrong, water doesn't mean a thing after all it's just some company in Texas, and besides its just tar sands that polluting the ground water in Canada and raping the Land of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Fort McMurray First Nation, Fort McKay Cree Nation, Beaver Lake Cree First Nation Chipewyan Prairie First Nation, and the Metis,, who needs stinking water its just water, who needs it, right "judge".........................:facepalm

[tclambert]

2. But this is a new technology pipeline, just like the Keystone XL. It could never leak.

What's that? 200,000 gallons? Oh, then, um, . . . never mind.