Demonstrators possess been unable to halt the construction a local project – but they aren’t giving up as the same company plans the Dakota Access pipelineIt looks to Lori Glover “like a long snake going across the whole desert”. For David Keller,it is “like having a very exquisite historic home and having someone run a bulldozer through the kitchen”. And in Yolonda Blue Horse’s view, it is another example of disrespect from an industry that does not care about native people.
Before the Dakota Access pipeline sparked continuing protests that led to national attention and an Obama administration intervention, and a feisty group of activists in remote west Texas waged a long battle against the same company when it pressed ahead with plans to run a 143-mile natural gas pipeline to Mexico through some of the state’s most pristine countryside. Related: Why I stand in solidarity with the Dakota pipeline protesters | Ijeoma Oluo Related: Texas pipeline plans rouse protest and pride from residents of lush substantial Bend Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com