Dakota Tribe Inexplicably Sat Out Pipeline Meetings for MONTHS
3rd November 2016
It’s not inexplicable at all. They planned all along to cause trouble, so didn’t waste their time with the ‘official’ process.
Julie Fedorchak, who serves as the chairman of the North Dakota Public Service Commission, told National Public Radio in an interview Wednesday that Standing Rock Sioux did not participate in the nearly 30 hours of meetings held to determine the pipeline’s southern route.
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Fedorchak cited cultural surveys conducted before the pipeline received approval showing 91 of the 149 eligible sites contained stone features considered sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
The pipeline, which is slated to shuttle more than 500,000 barrels of Bakken oil from North Dakota to Illinois, was rerouted and modified to avoid all 91 of those areas, and all but nine of the other potentially eligible sites.