#sioux tribe

WHAT HAPPENED:

This is not surprising as Trump holds stock in Energy Transfer Partners, the same company that is building the Dakota Access Pipeline according to Fortune. 

WHAT THIS MEANS:

• The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s water supply may be heavily compromised if the pipeline would ever leak. 
  

As environmentalist Bill McKibben noted in the New Yorker, the pipeline was originally slated to cross the Missouri River not far from North Dakota’s capital city of Bismarck, but the route was changed partly due to concerns about the potential contamination of the capitol’s drinking water in the event of a leak or spill. The pipeline is now set to run half a mile from the Sioux reservation near its water supply, Lake Oahe. (x)

• The construction of the pipeline is expected to disrupt the tribe’s sacred burial grounds and other historically significant sites.
  
• In a broader perspective, the environment would suffer extreme consequences as it will fuel climate change. 
  

Not only is it infringing on Native American rights but this pipeline will quicken the demise of Planet Earth. This is bigger than politics.

#WaterIsLife #NoDAPL