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DAPL


DEPARTMENT OF ARMY GRANTS EASEMENT

Department of Army announced today that it will grant the final easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline


February 7, 2017

You can read the letter they sent to congress here: Department of the Army Letter


Indigenous Environmental Network: Trump Can't Build DAPL Without a Fight

Cannon Ball, ND: Today the Army Corps of Engineers notified Congress that it will grant an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline in the next 24 hours, trampling a planned environmental and tribal consultation review process.

Statement from Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network:

Donald Trump will not build his Dakota Access Pipeline without a fight. The granting of an easement, without any environmental review or tribal consultation, is not the end of this fight - it is the new beginning. Expect mass resistance far beyond what Trump has seen so far.

The granting of this easement goes against protocol, it goes against legal process, it disregards more than 100,000 comments already submitted as part of the not-yet-completed environmental review process, all for the sake of Donald Trump's billionaire big oil cronies. And, it goes against the treaty rights of the entire Seven Councils Fires of the Sioux Nations. Donald Trump has not met with a single Native Nation since taking office. Our tribal nations and Indigenous grassroots peoples on the frontlines have had no input on this process. We support the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, and stand with them at this troubling time.

Contact: Jade Begay, jade@ienearth.org, 505-699-4791

Nina Smith, nina@megaphonestrategies.com, 301-717-9006