the corporate media seems to be lacking in its ability
to report them in their entirety. Simply put, there is
much more to this than has been presented, and we
are here to get to the bottom of it. To start off, here is
the website, Indian Country Today.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the International Indian Treaty Council have appealed to
the United Nations for help in their fight against
construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline
under the Missouri River on Treaty lands a halfmile from the reservation.
“We specifically request that the United States
Government impose an immediate moratorium
on all pipeline construction until the Treaty
Rights and Human Rights of the Standing Rock
Tribe can be ensured and their free, prior and
informed consent is obtained,” Chairman Dave
Archambault and the Treaty Council said in
their appeal to top U.N. human rights officials.
As a matter of extreme urgency, the Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe and Treaty Council jointly
submitted an urgent action communication to
four U.N. human rights Special Rapporteurs
citing “ongoing threats and violations to the
human rights of the Tribe, its members and its
future generations.” The tribe’s water supply is
threatened by construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, which was permitted by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers in late July, despite the
objections of three federal agencies including
the federal Environmental Protection Agency,
the Department of the Interior and the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation.
“Its proposed route is in close proximity to
the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the
Missouri River, the main source of water for
the Tribe,” the appeal said of the $3.8 billion,
1,172-mile-long pipeline, which would wend
its way through four states and carry up to half
a billion barrels of oil daily from the Bakken
oil fields. “This pipeline’s construction is being
carried out without the Tribe’s free, prior and
informed consent in direct contradiction to their
clearly expressed wishes.”
“The Dakota Access Pipeline poses an imminent
threat to the Missouri River due to potential
contamination by oil spills directly impacting
the Tribe’s drinking water,” the appeal continued.
“Based on data from a large number of oil pipelines, spills of toxic oil are a near certainty. Most
experts believe it is not a matter of if but when
such a spill will contaminate the ground and
river water upon which the Tribe depends.”
source
This explanation gives us a general idea of the
ordeal in North Dakota. However, there is more to
this story that must be uncovered. To add, here is a
report from the news organization,Democracy Now
with a special report on the plight of the Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe.
Standing Rock Sioux Chairman: Dakota Access
Pipeline "Is Threatening the Lives of My Tribe"
TheSovereignVoice.Org