I guess it’s hard to govern when you can’t see anything past “lock her up” or “build that wall” or “drill baby drill.”
Fucking yeah I forgot he’s going forward with that pipeline. What a grade A asshole he is.
We need the pipeline. A lot. It should have been built already.
No, we need to be putting our resources towards more sustainable and environmentally friendly sources of energy (and not building a pipeline through sacred sites).
That pipeline is not touching any sacred sites.
Well are we talking about Keystone?
From the pipeline permit: http://puc.sd.gov/commission/dockets/hydrocarbonpipeline/2009/hp09-001/application.pdf (pg.95)
Construction and operation of the Project can potentially affect NRHP eligible sites. These can include prehistoric or historic archaeological sites, districts, buildings, structures, objects, and locations with traditional cultural value to Native Americans or other groups. Project impacts can include: the physical disturbance during construction of archaeological sites located within the construction ROW; the demolition, removal, or alteration of historic or architecturally significant structures/features; and the introduction of visual or audible elements (e.g., pump stations) that can alter a site’s setting.
Or Dakota Access? Because that’s mostly about the environmental effects on the Standing Rock reservation. The matter of “is it a burial ground or not comes up” a lot, but I think I would refer to what the indigenous people are saying about that before the contractors.
“Archaeologists come in who are taught from a colonial structure, and they have the audacity to interpret how our people were buried. How would they even know?”
source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/01/us/standing-rock-sioux-sacred-land-dakota-pipeline/
I was mostly thinking about Dakota Access.
The idiots who’ve been protesting it don’t even know what they’re talking about, and they trespassed on private property to do so.
Trespassing, that’s funny. That was all Native land before we stole it.
Get off your high horse. It was land that was at one point occupied by native peoples of this continent, but not anymore, so it’s a moot point. If you feel so strongly about it why don’t you leave your house and move back to Europe.
And I suppose you don’t realize that oil is an important resource that is necessary despite it’s environmental affects. And I also suppose that you haven’t heard about the trouble the oil companies have been having without that pipeline.
I am well aware of the current importance of oil and the trouble we’ve had. All the more reason we need to stop relying on it and start looking for more sustainable sources of energy.
Like I said, we can’t just “stop relying on it.”