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Originally Posted by TheBossInTheWall
Have you guys been following the North Dakota Pipeline protests? Its fucking awful what the police are doing. If the majority of the protestors weren't native american the political situation would be a lot better for the protestors.
Here is Brave Bull Allard talking about her daughter that was arrested by police for literally doing nothing and thrown in jail naked for a day. Also about how this is their land and the company(forget name) that is trying to bull doze them and the government is hands off except for the local police who are acting like thugs. Yet again the US government is breaking treaties. Heavily armed police for peaceful protests and at one point bringing a former military vehicle to to a small prayer gathering(not protest).
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I want to go 100% renewable (say, completed in 40-50 yrs).
But let me play devil's advocate here. I followed this story some; and I haven't heard the key info. All i've heard about is the protests and thugish civil rights breaking arrest and detenions...
Without guessing... what was the process, deal and legal decision(s) by which this particular section of route was selected for the pipeline?
I don't believe an oil co just started laying pipe over reservation tribal nation land. There was surely discussion, planning, legal deals, etc.
The little I caught was some in the tribe said they weren't properly consulted about the route. But there was obviously some deal made, some compensation, what I don't know. Therein lays part of the solution to this conflict.