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When Dakota Access Pipeline protests began in 2016, then 34 year-old Two Bears was a tribal council member. His community of Cannon Ball hosted one of the encampments until late 2016. [199] A year later, he created an organization named "Indigenized Energy," which aims to bring renewable energy sources to Native communities.
Opening statements began Thursday in the trial of North Dakota's lawsuit against the federal government for the costs of responding to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the culmination of an ...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A court fight over whether the federal government should cover North Dakota's $38 million in costs of responding to the lengthy protests of the Dakota Access oil pipeline ...
A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a federal judge's 2021 decision dismissing a lawsuit filed by protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline, who alleged law ...
Prior to the Dakota Access Pipeline, light sweet crude oil from the Bakken Formation was transported mainly by rail during the North Dakota oil boom. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Extraction from the area increased from 309,000 barrels a day in 2010 to more than 1 million in 2014, with insufficient pipeline infrastructure to transport the increased extraction. [ 5 ]
In 2016, Native communities protested the 1,172 mile long Dakota Access Pipeline. [26] The protest was due to the fact that the pipeline was supposed to be built on the land of Indigenous communities, and was putting water sources that those communities depend on in danger.
The pipeline has been transporting oil from western North Dakota since 2017, after months of protests with hundreds of arrests. The public comment period closes Dec. 13. Show comments
Reznicek opposed the Dakota Access Pipeline [2] [3] and in the spring of 2016 she began walking and hitchhiking to Standing Rock Reservation to join in the protests against it. [5] Her involvement included locking herself to the construction equipment used to excavate the pipeline route.