Standing Rock Breaking News: Army Corps Denies Easement
It looks like the Army Corps of Engineers has denied permission to Energy Transfer Partners to drill under Lake Oahe.
I have seen confirmation from Dallas Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network, and David Archambault, the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux, has issued a statement (I'm looking for the exact text). Text is below i comments in two parts
Snopes confirms. http://www.snopes.com/2016/12/04/army-corps-denies-easement-and-blocks-t...
Thanks to our very own Tall Bald and Ugly, who saw it before I did. http://caucus99percent.com/content/did-federal-judge-just-stop-dapl
This is very exciting, assuming it's true, and I just hope that it's not a tactic to get folks to leave Oceti Sakowin.
I'll update this as I get more news.
**1st update 4:30pm MT** Check the comments for other documents, links, video**
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statement from tribe's chairman
I haven't been able to find the full letter, but here's what looks like the first page.
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Great to see!
This should motivate us to double down on efforts to go after the banks who are financing this dead end.
Recently in Santa Fe we participated in an action in front of Bank of America and Wells Fargo asking folks to move their money and the banks to stop financing climate change fail.
Now read where there are ongoing actions against the banks around the world!
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Stand strong and united.
People must not leave until all invaders leave. It's not over til it's over.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
This just in from 350.org Twitter
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
FWIW some on Twitter giving BO credit, but Bill McKibben
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
I looked at Huffpo
And almost every comment was thanking Obama for halting the pipeline.
The suck up on there is unimaginable. Where was his voice when people were being injured by the rubber bullets, concussion grenades or especially being sprayed with water in freezing temperatures?
Yes, thanks Obama for finally getting off your tush and stopping the pipeline for now, but especially for not giving the police, the mercenaries and national guard any more reason to brutalize the protectors.
Speaking of the mercenaries, did you know that they have the ability to listen to people's phone calls, track their social media and everything else that our government can do that goes against our 4th amendment.
I don't remember any vote on that or congress passing a bill that gives private mercenary companies the right to do those things.
This is who Tiger Swan is and what they can do.
http://warisacrime.org/content/standing-rock-tigerswan-and-dawn-official...
Remember this next time that mercenaries are rolled out to protect the elites.
This should abhor every American, but of course they aren't aware of this because our media doesn't do it's job.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Obama didn't stop it
He was just following orders from his paymasters.
The corporate media coverage didn't stop it, as it was non-existent or biased in favor of the pipeline construction to a ludicrous and absurd extent
The people who stopped it were the Water Protectors.
They are the ones who deserve all the credit.
Period.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
2nd page of Archambault's statement
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Two links
This goes to Sally Jewells twitter statement. Scroll down for it.
http://thehill.com/people/sally-jewell
This goes to the hill article
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/308702-army-corps-halting-w...
But then there's this sentence
The pipeline might still be built and go under water at some point, but I thought that there was a 12/31 deadline for it to be built or they'd lose a lot of money or something?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Is this it?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/16/report-oil-market-downturn-might-doom-...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Yes thank you, do
In addition to the lower oil prices, there's this.
I'm confused after reading today that OPEC is going to raise the price of oil and not sure what impact that will have on this pipeline or others.
This pipeline is almost completed except for the area around where the protests are happening IIRC.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
But, with current OPEC move
oil prices are going up again.
Am optimistic, but not convinced it's over.
Prices are going up but soon enough to help here?
Who knows?
Heh. Just came across this on Twitter>>>>>
Would not put anything past O Admin.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Off to follow Trinity Iris on Twitter. Oh wait, already am n/t
caution and skepticism are warranted
Energy Transfer Partners will definitely appeal to the courts. No doubt about that.
And though I can't find the official statement from the Corps of Engineers, Archambault talks about "alternative routes," which is unacceptable to many of us.
This struggle, imo, is not only about not having the pipeline on indigenous treaty lands. It's about stopping pipelines completely.
We must remain vigilant, for sure.
But this is a good day.
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
+1
and many thanks for keeping this in the spotlight for all of us!
I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish
"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"
Heard from Margaret Kimberley
Totally agree that people need to stay viligant
About where it goes next, but what is amazing is that there are over 10,000 miles of pipelines in LA alone that has allowed salt water to destroy thousands of miles of land.
James Lee Burke writes about this in his Dave Robechaux novels.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
It seems a good day
but I agree, caution and skepticism is warranted.
Somehow, I doubt BO made this decision independently or arbitrarily. I am more inclined to believe that he consulted with interested elite parties - Trump, DAPL, finance, and Saudis - before pursuing a course agreed upon by all. We shall see. Certainly an oil price rise will potentially make the project viable again, if it might have been harmed by the delay. The banks can afford to wait. I do not think it is as simple as BO suddenly giving up - he showed no inclination to remorse or sympathy in the past. I do think the impending arrival of the veterans might have affected the timing of the announcement, and perchance the decision itself.
video from Young Turks' Jordan Chariton (30 mins)
https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks/videos/vb.210277954204/1015415158...
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
statement from the Army
https://www.army.mil/article/179095/army_will_not_grant_easement_for_dak...
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
I'm hopeful...
but I'm cautious. It could be switch and bait. As some said upthread - break up the camp - then drill baby drill - oh we'll pay the fine.
Thanks blaze for all your good reporting!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The army statement...
sounds like another route approach. However, RFK said if the Environmental impact statement was called for T-rump can't stop it. Maybe the vets helped.
Its not very long:
https://www.army.mil/article/179095/army_will_not_grant_easement_for_dak...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
"Full public input"
Keep those cards and letters coming in, kids!
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
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this is a good day. finally something good.
Don't believe everything you think.
pushback from ND governor and Congressman
http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/The-Latest-Navy-veteran-among-10...
Doesn't sound like they're pulling their troops back
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Vets to ask for forgiveness
http://abc13.com/news/feds-block-route-of-dakota-access-pipeline-in-nd/1...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
The veterans of the Military are powerless in granting
reparations, and obligations from old treaties by the NAs, considered still a lower class. Did you see TYT interviews outside of Walmarts in Mandan and Bismark? The Caucasions are still distrustful, doubt the complaints by Tribal members. In NY, I have an Onandaga Nation (part of the old Iroquois Nation) rez up the interstate before Syracuse. The NAs are still looked on with distrust and derision. The kids attend public schools. And are considered untrustworthy (shifty) by local adults who pass that along to their kids. In NY!!! The NE elites! Even 4 hours from the City!
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Obviously, but I like their gesture.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
So then, oil pipelines
are now to be classified as infrastructure? Well blow me down with a feather. And here I was, thinking the were intended to make more money for the oil industry. How silly of me!
native
NPR calls pipelines infrastructure too. Newspeak/doublespeak
Welcome to Thunder Dome and Orwellian Hell!
Good old NPR,
always ready and willing to kiss some corporate ass.
native
Yep, & NPR mentions the Kochs in their funder commercials n/t
They also called rubber bullets (which are hard and can hurt
the shootee badly) "sponges" today. How does a "sponge" develop enough thrust or percussive since it's not solid? This is such a dumb thing to say but I'll bet very few notice. NPR reads what is given to them. Public Service Announcements straight from the corporation for.....
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Missed that one, but w/a 35 mile commute in rain . . .
It was just background noise to my spewing, "Stay in your f%cking lane!" and, "Oh my god! Where's my f%cking lane?"
But, sponges equalling rubber bullets (one of which actually peeled back a portion of scalp), sounds about right for a non fake news provider. (/s on those last 4 words)
Oh, what a prick
Straight out of the Barry Goldwater playbook, that. Citizens exercising rights = "criminal behavior", especially when they are non-white; and especially when such actions embarrass the real criminals - the people who exploit, rape, burn, and destroy the people and the land for their own profit.
US Army Corps of Engineers denies easement for DAPL
Victory! #NoDAPL
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I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
An awesome tweet with a short video clip
NO ELIZABETH WARREN
She did nothing, nada, nothing to help us get the pipeline stopped in western MA.
She can join Shrillary in making toast, toast, done, over. Think she should take some lessons from Tulsi Gabbard about what a brave, honest person does.
I'm with ya
Warren has been as big a disappointment as Obummer. She fails to stand up on anything other than bank control.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Agree. She wasn't part of WE I only posted it for video n/t
Some are new to Twitter, apparently...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Great reporting, blaze.
I am going to take this with a grain of salt. The influx of 2000+ veterans certainly created very bad optics for the government. We need the vets to stay there as long as possible.
Right now, given the timing with the arrival of the vets, this sounds like a way to slightly delay this pipeline so that the water protectors and their allies will leave.
Even if the pipe line goes on a different route, it is still something that should never have been permitted period. We have the means to move beyond fossil fuels and approval of any more of these type of permits is simply contributing to the rapid decline in our environment and continue tp ush climate change at an ever escalating rate.
We need decision makers to look beyond protecting the corporate bottom line and start protecting life itself.
I urge the water protectors and their allies to stay put and stay strong.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
The good news
An EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) is a lengthy process that can take anywhere from months (when there is little controversy involved) to years - See, e.g., the Keystone XXL EIS process:
Ultimately a supplemental EIS was not completed until 2014, stringing the process out another 3 years, which allowed opposition to make the case for killing that pipeline, a decision that which the Obama administration did finally take in November, 2015.
Once the EIS process is begun, it is difficult for the government to back out of carrying that process through to its final end under the current laws on the books. If Trump tried to grant a permit at this point it would lead to immediate litigation that would likely result in further delay. Not saying we are out of the woods, per se, but this is a significant action by the COE in admitting the DAPL does indeed require an EIS, and one that Trump cannot easily get around from a legal standpoint. Indeed, this may, in fact be what the banks would prefer at this point, as the current delay has highlighted the problems with the economic viability of the pipeline under the present circumstances. They might prefer to play a waiting game as the "alternative routes are explored" and the EIS proceeds, hoping for a resolution that would salvage their investment in the project at some date in the future, or allow them to take a tax write-off for the bad loans.
My personal opinion is that the sudden change in the Obama administration's position was driven by the needs of the big banks, and not that of the pipeline company and its investors. That and the growing negative attention that the conflict at Standing Rock and the LEO response to Native American protestors and their allies, including the contingent of veterans has created.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
yes this is a good day
I remain skeptical however.
A water-crossing somewhere must be done, I think. Maps!
And USACE did brinksmanship, here, not a good sign. I am not hopeful. Well, a teeny bit. But I am having bad thoughts. Fines can be paid, after all.
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Looks like it would have to cross the river
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
If I were the pipeline guys,
I would find some place to put the pipe over the water that would not be on native American treaty-protected soil. A place that they would be (or anyone would be) trespassing to protest. Private land purchased from some heartless individual or company.
I can't read the map, but those veterans can. I do not think this is over.
I give zero credit to Obama, 100% credit to the protesters, especially the veterans.
At the very least, the protesters can get much needed rest tonight.
Bless their hearts.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
No pipeline
We don't want the pipeline moved. We want it stopped.
Pushing the pollution off on some other community is not the answer. Keeping all fossil fuels in the ground starting immediately -- that's the answer.
There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.
--Amiri Baraka
Well, the inevitable pipeline
Well, the inevitable pipeline pollution from leaks/splits would ultimately involve the whole river and any involved watersheds, so it would involve hazard to a whole bunch of communities wherever it was placed; the ones closest would see the worst of it, but liquid fossil fuel poisons travel well in flowing water, as do poisoned/damaged fish and other water-life also more susceptible to contagious - perhaps especially fungal - disease, thus carried and spread downstream as well... we are all interdependent parts of the whole and water circulates globally, in the end - or we all die.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
A Celebratory meme . . . for now
Everyone needs to stay put.
This is a stalling tactic, nothing more. I trust ETP, their investors, the banks and Obama about as far as I can throw them, which is to say: not at all.
Fines to these people are just a cost of doing business and amount to no more than the change I could find in my couch. Don't forget the old axiom, "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" not that they have or would ask for either.
If I were in a position to make such decisions, that camp would be there until any prospect of laying one more length of pipe was beyond impossible, until the investors threw up their hands and walked away in disgust - preferably after losing their shirts on the deal - and until the banks withdrew their backing, battered and shocked by boycotts and divestments. Then - and only then - would I consider dispersing the Oceti Sakowin camp.
Then I'd reassemble it at the next battle site. There are many from which to choose.
I never thought I'd grow up to be such a cynic.
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." - Mark Twain
Energy-Transfer-Partners issued press release
They plan to wait for Fascist Trump to rubber stamp it in January.
I am convinced Obama was afraid of seeing the bloodied faces of veterans plastered all over the news smearing his legacy. Apparently though, he was perfectly fine with the bloodied faces of Native Americans.
Donnie The #ShitHole Douchebag. Fake Friend to the Working Class. Real Asshole.
He and Michelle have been all about
our service people. What a black eye this would be. Indeed, he is trying to salvage something, anything left of his legacy.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
...December 04, 2016 11:05 PM
...
OK, if a government regards an reference to 'policy' as being meaningless, apparently having no policy other than bamboozling while draining the public it exists to serve in order to further enrich those already having the bulk of everything, doesn't that make it a fake government?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Indeed, especially in light of President Elect Trump's
recent transition team statement.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-pipeline-idUSKBN13U15I
According to a memo released by Donald Trump's transition team, the president-elect supports the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This memo marks the first time he has publicly come out in support of the controversial pipeline. According to the Associated Press, who obtained a copy of the 17-page document sent to Trump supporters, the memo denies that Trump's support of the DAPL has any connection to his personal investments in the project.
The newly-released Trump transition team memo states that Trump
which includes the DAPL. Once in office, Trump and his administration could allow construction to continue along the original route.
The people, united, will never be defeated.
Thanks for the
h/t, Blazin, but it was community radio that let ME know, kmud.org in Northern Cali. Someone had heard about it and called it in and the station pretty much threw it out there!
I tried to confirm and was getting nowhere, so I asked for help.
You people are Beautiful! You responded within Minutes with more info, sources(thanks RA) and links.
Thank You ALL!
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
So the police line has moved back a mile from the bridge
and are building housing for more influx of industry-protectors. Psy-ops on them. I feel sympathy for those who aren't into it, except to save their own livelihoods. Many cannot afford to walk away. A terrible moral quandary.
Why are there still residents of Flint? Somewhat (except for the lead [Pb]) another moral dilemma. No one can afford to uproot and start all over!
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