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Ok... So this seems like a case of under informed informing more under informed and so on until everyone is under informed. So the argument is this, the pipeline would carry 400,000 barrels of oil from the oil fields in North Dakota to Illinois where it can be processed and supply us with fuel and electricity that doesn't come from Saudi Arabia. It is 1100 miles long, the contended area is about 10 miles where it passes below the Missouri river. A tribe called the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation (whos leaders reviewed and agreed to terms with the Army Corp of Engineers) is upset because the pipeline violates what they consider sacred land. The problem being the sacred land is not on their reservation but ten miles north of their reservation making their anger really inconsequential. Its actually a pretty small group but "activists" have joined the group because people love to start trouble and now its blowing up into a huge thing. The Indians involved where sold out by their leaders and have no ground to stand on. The pipeline will make the movement of oil from point A to point B drastically safer as right now the oil is moved via trains on a very aged rail system that will not be able to maintained at a reasonable level for much longer. Stopping the movement of that 400,000 barrels of oil would be catastrophic to our economy and give foreign oil a better foot hold in the states. Logic will prevail, the pipeline will be completed, and the world will move on as it does with every so called tragedy. This is another case of a non issue being blown up into an issue buy activists or as I like to call them domestic terrorists.
Also, a single drone was shot out of the air over last weekend and that was because it was dipping and buzzing police. 70 protestors where arrested, almost none of the arrested belonged to the Standing Rock Sioux Nation. And there is no proof anyone was jailed naked for a day.
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