[WSMDiscuss] FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE SHUT DOWN (Indigenous Environmental Network) / Monumental Victory' : Tribes and Climate Activists Celebrate Court-Ordered Shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline
Jai Sen
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Tue Jul 7 03:49:44 CEST 2020
Monday, July 6, 2020
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'Monumental Victory' : Tribes and Climate Activists Celebrate Court-Ordered Shutdown of Dakota Access Pipeline
"If the events of 2020 have taught us anything, it's that health and justice must be prioritized early on in any decision-making process if we want to avoid a crisis later on."
Jessica Corbett, staff writer <https://www.commondreams.org/author/jessica-corbett-staff-writer>, Common Dreams
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A U.S. district court on Monday delivered a major win to local Indigenous organizers and climate activists—and a significant blow <https://twitter.com/Survival/status/1280137214211563520> to the fossil fuel industry and the Trump administration—by ordering <https://www.usatoday.com/documents/6981447-Order/> the Dakota Access Pipeline to be shut down and emptied of oil by Aug. 5 while federal regulators conduct an environmental review of the project.
"Today is a historic day for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the many people who have supported us in the fight against the pipeline."
—Mike Faith, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
DAPL, as the Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) pipeline is widely known, transports crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale basin to a terminal in Illinois. The pipeline has gained international notoriety in recent years due to protests <https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/04/their-efforts-save-our-planet-dakota-access-pipeline-opponents-face-more-100-years>—particularly on and around the Standing Rock Indian Reservation—by environmentalists and Native Americans who live along the route.
The Monday decision <https://www.usatoday.com/documents/6981448-Memorandum-Opinion/> by D.C.-based District Judge James E. Boasberg comes after four years of litigation brought by the Standing Rock Sioux, Cheyenne River Sioux, and others against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for allowing ETP to construct and operate the pipeline beneath Lake Oahe, a dammed portion of the Missouri River near the reservation.
The Obama administration denied permits for DAPL to cross the river in December 2016, but President Donald Trump signed <https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/24/tsunami-outrage-vows-resistance-follow-trumps-pipeline-order> an executive order advancing the project shortly after taking office in January 2017. The pipeline was completed and operating within months.
Boasberg's move to shut down DAPL was welcomed by critics of the pipeline.
"Today is a historic day for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the many people who have supported us in the fight against the pipeline," chairman Mike Faith of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said <https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/07/06/judge-orders-dakota-access-pipeline-shut-down> in a statement. "This pipeline should have never been built here. We told them that from the beginning."
"It took four long years, but today justice has been served at Standing Rock," added Earthjustice attorney Jan Hasselman, who represents the tribe. "If the events of 2020 have taught us anything, it's that health and justice must be prioritized early on in any decision-making process if we want to avoid a crisis later on."
In a separate statement, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) delcared, "We are celebrating this order as it vindicates the many prayers, actions, and legal arguments of Oceti Sakowin tribal nations and communities!"
"The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes have shown the world that treaty rights and environmental justice are not token concepts without merit, but rather tangible arguments that inherently protect the sacredness of mother earth," IEN said. "We will continue to fight until DAPL is stopped completely "
Boasberg's order Monday followed his finding <https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/25/huge-victory-standing-rock-sioux-tribe-federal-court-rules-dapl-permits-violated-law> in March that the Corps had violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) when approving federal permits for DAPL. The Corps is expected to finish it full court-ordered Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the pipeline by mid-2021.
The decision to temporarily shut down DAPL came just a day after two energy companies cancelled the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) that would have transported fracked gas through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina—a move that activists called <https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/06/future-does-not-belong-you-climate-campaigners-say-big-oil-after-cancellation-600> a "historic victory for clean water, the climate, public health, and our communities."
"These monumental defeats for the fossil fuel industry are a clear sign that bold community opposition, strategic legal challenges and state-level clean energy legislation are all working together to thwart the Trump administration's pro-polluter agenda," Food & Water Action policy director Mitch Jones said <https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/07/06/dakota-access-shutdown-dominion-pipeline-decision-show-failures-trumps-fossil> in a statement Monday, referencing both the DAPL decision and the ACP cancellation.
"The campaign to stop the Dakota Access pipeline, led by Indigenous groups whose water would have been directly impacted by that filthy project, inspired and emboldened climate activists across the country," Jones continued. "The Trump White House can boast and bluster all it wants, and corporate behemoths can scheme to take advantage of the administration's fondness for fossil fuels, but they are no match for determined grassroots opposition movements fighting for environmental justice and an end to the degradation of our air, water and climate."
"Today's ruling—arriving on the heels of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline victory—may be a calamity for oil and gas executives looking to profit from the disastrous climate crisis, but it's a huge win for those of us committed to a liveable world."
—Janet Redman, Greenpeace USA
"Fossil fuels are dying," he added, "and there is little that Donald Trump can do to save them."
Greenpeace USA climate director Janet Redman called the DAPL shutdown a "huge victory for the courageous members" of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allied activists "who fought to protect their land, their water, and their right to a healthy and safe future."
"This is as much a victory for human rights and Indigenous sovereignty as it is for the climate," Redman said <https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2020/07/06/greenpeace-celebrates-dakota-access-pipeline-shutdown> in a statement Monday before also connecting the two wins.
"Energy Transfer's Dakota Access Pipeline and other environmentally reckless fossil fuel infrastructure projects will only make billionaires richer while the rest of us suffer," Redman said. "Today's ruling—arriving on the heels of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline victory <https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=4tNED-2FM8iDZJQyQ53jATUaAj148gxPSN5UBbHqds6oNdhrEdC48rBL920I2gbOrdVhbD6kRqnhkpNFHcP5-2FvXloCmfYCNNutOw2u3ReCnTJFsnJsDqQqccrzWE4Lffx6p-2Bzg5HBzzdSRe33PI6-2B-2BzUKuu8U4pcJB5f0NE1WTmpg-3DYAQX_6Noc08JCLckBnQKYaMA7QhHoUhZ-2FQ-2BRzdbpeCX1kWXZhtJ8I50qqo7LK9SSa6lTelkMZOQK1-2FayozQMHhWrzx0p5oUq3o-2BSzKjUGT-2F80gzburxN8iwoKMC1AOavMviwKPOYzlLwz97HQoVEkae6jddq07txDaVHSANrtjGk26hhSnjqK5ls6VXbv9whZtZFf1rDvCRPS6vOmL0C1mabQ1pc2SSFyaImhCRUkhBQ4zs-2BDYL30CVXmhm98XuXpiezSdKiZkJ2-2Fzl7F5j-2F2BYN0gl4H2NoL1RdjyW0WEhSnB9mwwVPxipDEKtmLGB10PF2RGvHSc1CVOfgOwBR-2F2OoAJPYAPuW4m6QxZsYCtESLUyQ-3D>—may be a calamity for oil and gas executives looking to profit from the disastrous climate crisis, but it's a huge win for those of us committed to a liveable world. A just transition to renewable energy is not only the future, it is the only responsible choice for today."
"The past 24 hours," she added, "have sent a loud and clear message to fossil fuel corporations still committed to constructing dangerous pipelines—the future does not belong to you."
This post has been updated with comment from Indigenous Environmental Network and Greenpeace USA.
> On Jul 6, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:
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> Monday, July 6, 2020
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> Turtle Island in movement…, Indigenous Peoples in movement…, The US in movement…, Resistance in movement…, History in movement…
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> [The US is afire, its people are aflame… MORE HUGE NEWS !!! :
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> Federal Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline Shut Down
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> Indigenous Environmental Network
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> In celebration in and solidarity !
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>> Subject: FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE SHUT DOWN
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>> We write to you today with good news, we are celebrating a win for the sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to fight for the protection of their traditional lands and territories against Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline.
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>> Today a federal judge ordered Dakota Access, LLC a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners, to shut down and empty their Dakota Access Pipeline by August 5th. This order <http://report.mnb.email/t.js?s=5f03695734d1f765b332abec&u=43142752&v=3&key=913f&skey=bc81e30a09&url=https%3A%2F%2Fearthjustice.org%2Fnews%2Fpress%2F2020%2Fjudge-orders-dakota-access-pipeline-to-shut-down> is part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes. The court recently found that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it granted an easement to Dakota Access, LLC, due to a failure to conduct a full environmental impact review on the project. This newest decision by the court orders the pipeline to shut down within 30 days and to remain shut down until the environmental review is complete.
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>> The Court order states that: 1) The Mineral Leasing Act easement authorizing the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Missouri River at Lake Oahe is hereby vacated; and 2) Dakota Access shall shut down the pipeline and empty it of oil by August 5, 2020. Signed by Judge James E. Boasberg on 7/6/2020.
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>> “This is a big win for the Oceti Sakowin or Great Sioux Nation and all our ally tribes and friends who came to stand with us to protect water and the future of our children. We said from the beginning that the crossing of the Missouri river was illegal and that an EIS was necessary. I'm glad the judge saw the inherent dangers of keeping the oil flowing on DAPL while this study moves forward. That in of itself is vindication for all the trials we went through. This is a win for the grassroots people of the Oceti Sakowin and I couldn't be happier.” said Joye Braun, the first camper at Sacred Stone Camp.
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>> This order vindicates the many prayers, actions, and legal arguments of Oceti Sakowin - Seven Council Fires of the Dakota, Nakota, Lakota tribal nations and communities. The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes have shown the world that treaty rights and environmental justice are not token concepts without merit, but rather tangible arguments that inherently protect the sacredness of Unci Maka - Mother Earth.
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