Obama: Corps of Engineers may reroute N.D. pipeline

On Wednesday, the Morton County Sheriff’s Department said on Facebook: ‘Law enforcement is now engaged in a standoff on the shoreline of the Cantapeta Creek north of the main camp area. He said the protests and accompanying violence were “the direct result of the federal government’s unnecessary late-stage intervention”. Officers arrested one person, but no details were released.

‘Officers also deployed pepper spray and tear gas to disperse the group of protesters who came across the water and camp at officers.

The company building the pipeline, Texas-based Energy Transfer Pipelines, say the proposed pipeline would be safe. “We’re going to let it play out for several more weeks and determine whether or not this can be resolved in a way that I think is properly attentive to the traditions of First Americans”.

The pipeline would carry oil from western North Dakota some 1,200 miles through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in IL.

The president said rerouting the pipeline is one possible compromise.

“The pipeline is not OK”, said 9-year-old Bo Mendoza.

“President Obama breaking the silence on Dakota Access is a testament to the powerful resistance of Indigenous leaders, but he shouldn’t sit back while people are facing violent repression from militarized law enforcement on the ground”, said Sara Shor, a campaign manager for 350.org.

A protester is treated with pepper spray antidote after a confrontation with the police. “People were saying that like that is what they did at the Holocaust”, he said.

A Congressional candidate who was interviewing protesters at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota was shot in the back with a rubber bullet Thursday in an incident caught on camera. About 140 people were arrested on the property last week in a law enforcement operation that cleared the encampment that protesters had established on the land.

“Numerous protesters continued to ignore officers’ commands and crossed the river by swimming, using boats, canoes, and kayaks”.

But he said there was also a feeling of brokenness, a sense of the “deep violence” that the Sioux had suffered over generations at the hands of white settlers and the United States government. A company spokeswoman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from The Associated Press.

The protest escalated on Sunday when demonstrators set up camp on private land along the pipeline’s path that had recently been acquired by Energy Transfer Partners. In an interview with NowThis posted this week he said the U.S. Some pipeline protestors have faced terrorism charges. About half a dozen law enforcement vehicles were parked along the highway near Cannon Ball, a town about 50 miles south of Bismarck. Hundreds of clergy sang hymns and marched near the route of the pipeline. The matter was to be discussed during a commission meeting Wednesday.

“It’s awesome the spirituality going around this place”, said Joe Gangone, who came with an Episcopalian church group from South Dakota’s Rosebud Sioux Reservation.

In an October 27 letter, Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners detailed the finding of stone cairns and other artifacts.

After an inspection, company consultants made a decision to divert the construction by about 50 feet, even though they determined there was a “low likelihood” that any additional artifacts were buried nearby.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says the Dakota Access Pipeline construction route crosses land that is sacred to its members. Supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux, which opposes the Dakota Access pipeline because it skirts its sacred sites as well as water resources in the Missouri River, have resorted to protests to interfere with construction.

But Archambault also called on the Obama administration to go further and “issue an immediate “stop work order” on the entire pipeline and begin a broad review of its potential environmental consequences.

Meanwhile in Lansing, protesters gathered peacefully at the capital to stand with the Native Americans at Standing Rock to show their support miles away in MI. “(What’s happening in North Dakota) affects us all”.