Thread: Trump supports completion of Dakota Access Pipeline

Thanks, I truly didn't know what was what, and therefore have tried not to comment on the good or bad of the pipeline. I just think it is so wrong to put the blame for that on PE Trump - no matter how to feel about it.

Originally Posted by nntrixie

Thanks, I truly didn't know what was what, and therefore have tried not to comment on the good or bad of the pipeline. I just think it is so wrong to put the blame for that on PE Trump - no matter how to feel about it.

You're welcome! And I totally agree with you about our dear PE Trump, trying his best to fix our country for US.

PIPELINE HALTED: Feds block proposed route of Dakota Access pipeline after protests

Originally Posted by Judy

Oh okay. Here's a source for the Keystone Pipeline which is in operation serving Canadian oil producers and a 47 mile leg in Texas which is under construction and to come on line in 2017 serving Texas producers and the Keystone XL Pipeline which would serve US producers in Montana and Nebraska, is Phase IV and stalled awaiting approval by the President.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline

One who attempts to pass Wikipedia off as a factual based resource probably shouldn't go out of their way to criticize someone else's source. Just saying ......

What issue of fact do you feel is in dispute here, MW? Are you claiming the Keystone Pipeline is not in operation? Are you claiming the Nebraska Supreme Court did not approve the Keystone XL Pipeline? What facts in my post are you disputing?

5/26/16

Trump would allow Keystone XL pipeline and end Paris climate deal

BREAKING: Nebraska Supreme Court Ruling Upholds Keystone XL ...

https://thinkprogress.org/breaking-nebraska-supreme-court-ruling-upholds-keystone-...
Jan 9, 2015 - The Nebraska Supreme Court reversed a lower court's decision that nullified the controversial Keystone XL pipeline route through Nebraska Friday, ... then bring the plans to Nebraska's governor for final approval or rejection, ...

Is the Keystone XL pipeline approved?

A bill approving the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline was passed by the Senate (62–36) on January 29, 2015,

and by the House (270–152) on February 11, 2015.

President Obama vetoed the bill on February 24, 2015, arguing that the decision of approval should rest with the Executive Branch.

Keystone Pipeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_Pipeline

the land in question was theirs under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851, which was signed by eight tribes and the U.S. government. Over the last century, tribes have challenged this treaty and others like it in court for not being honored or for taking their land.


“We have never ceded this land. If Dakota Access Pipeline can go through and claim eminent domain on landowners and Native peoples on their own land, then we as sovereign nations can then declare eminent domain on our own aboriginal homeland," Joye Braun of the Indigenous Environmental Network said in a prepared statement.


Energy Transfer could not be reached for comment.
Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. said the proposed route should be changed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pipeline-dakotaaccess-idUSKCN12O2FN

Andrew Jackson off of our money for "trail of tears" so it is hypocritical to run a pipeline thru an Indian reservation they were FORCED to go to.....considered barren, unlivable, unfarmable AND they had to WALK THERE. They were earlier settlers than Europeans, thanks to the lands being joined at the Strait; USA not their native land either - but treaties should be honored. The land is their religion and as fate would have it, they possess remarkable land and have rights to where they were forced to go - in treaties.

Senate Fails to Override Obama's Keystone Pipeline Veto - The New ...

www.nytimes.com/2015/.../senate-fails-to-override-obamas-keystone-pipeline-veto.ht...
Mar 4, 2015 - WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday failed to override President Obama's veto of a bill that would have approved construction of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline. A bipartisan majority of senators were unable to reach the two-thirds vote required to undo a presidential veto...

Originally Posted by artist

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pipeline-dakotaaccess-idUSKCN12O2FN

Andrew Jackson off of our money for "trail of tears" so it is hypocritical to run a pipeline thru an Indian reservation they were FORCED to go to.....considered barren, unlivable, unfarmable AND they had to WALK THERE. They were earlier settlers than Europeans, thanks to the lands being joined at the Strait; USA not their native land either - but treaties should be honored. The land is their religion and as fate would have it, they possess remarkable land and have rights to where they were forced to go - in treaties.

artist, the pipeline isn't on Indian Reservation Land. It's near it, but not on it. The Sioux are worried that something will go wrong and contaminate a reservoir that the pipeline would lay under, it's Army Corps of Engineers territory which is why the pipeline company needs an easement from the US Army Corps of Engineers, not the Standing Rock Tribe.

Hopefully the Corps can find a different location that is less controversial.