The time and the cost to clean up oil spills will take years and probably millions of dollars. People will not be able to drink from the river or use the water. Grass, crops, trees and animals will not be able to grow and live because of the oil. If the pipeline breaks the oil will spill on the ground and into the water. I want to be the voice for my great grandparents and my community and ask you to stop the building of the Dakota Access pipeline. They raised gardens, chickens and horses. They lived along the Missouri River all their life. My great grandparents are originally from Cannon Ball, North Dakota where the pipeline will cross the Missouri River. I am writing this letter to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

North Dakota law enforcement officials and private guards hired by Energy Transfer Partners clashed with protestors, sometimes violently, and made hundreds of arrests.ĭear Assistant Secretary Darcy & The Army Corps of Engineers, Many Native Nations, along with non-Native allies, celebrities, and several politicians supported the movement and travelled to join DAPL protesters at the Sacred Stone Camp on the Standing Rock Reservation. To generate momentum for their cause and demonstrate their opposition to the pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe organized runs, horseback rides, and marches. would destroy valuable cultural resources.'

Sovereign nation, passed a resolution regarding the pipeline stating that 'the Dakota Access Pipeline poses a serious risk to the very survival of our Tribe and. In 2015 the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, operating as a 'undisturbed use and occupation' of reservation lands surrounding the proposed location of the pipeline. Tribe is that the Dakota Access Pipeline violates Article II of the Fort Laramie Treaty, which guarantees the Army Corps of Engineers accepted an application filed by Energy Transfer Partners, a Texas-based developer behind the project. The controversial construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) gained national and international attention when the U.S.

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