Dakota Access Pipeline Protest Flashcards
WHAT was The Dakota Access Pipeline Protest?
The Dakota Access Pipeline Protests began in early 2016 as a grassroots opposition to the construction of Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern United States.
Pipeline Route:
The Dakota Access Pipeline’s route takes it over four states and nearly 1,200 miles, from the Bakken oil fields in northwestern North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa, and down to a terminal in Illinois.
But one Missouri River crossing just north of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota has become the focal point of a fight over how the pipeline’s route was analyzed and approved by the federal government.
In legal challenges and public demonstrations, members of the tribe and their supporters have argued that they were not adequately consulted about the route. Running the pipeline under a Missouri River reservoir called Lake Oahe, member say, would jeopardize the primary water source for the reservation, and construction would further damage sacred sites near the lake, violating tribal treaty rights.
Why is this IMPORTANT?
why did they oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline?
How did they protest?
What was the outcome?
