‘Stakes Are Getting Higher’: 83 People Arrested, Maced in North Dakota
More than 80 people were arrested in North Dakota on Saturday.
More than 80 people were arrested in North Dakota on Saturday.
People REALLY don't want this pipeline being built.
The situation is escalating quickly.
Government officials and business people today routinely negotiate: “We’d like to extract the oil.” Or gas, or such and such a mineral. Water? “Oh don’t worry, we’ll see to that too….”
But they’re not angels, and their bottom line is profit, so Nature and human beings have a problem having enough to drink, and to survive, not just along Kabul River, but also along the Missouri and Mississippi of the Standing Rock Sioux.
They craft the ‘legal’ rules of the industry, and embellish their plans with ‘democracy, or development, or rights’.