Governor: State Will Investigate Protester’s GoFundMe Accounts

Speaking on a local radio station this morning, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said he foresees investigations and potential lawsuits concerning the millions of dollars anti-pipeline protesters have raised through online crowdfunding websites. Asked by Scott Hennen if authorities plan to look into the questionable online funding, Burgum said, “I think there should be and…

ND Fears Water Contamination From Abandoned Cars

Erin Mundahl | InsideSources For months, activists protested to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. United under the slogan “Water is Life,” they engaged in increasingly provocative acts of civil disobedience, hoping to force the Army Corps of Engineers not to grant an easement allowing the project to drill under the Missouri River. For North…

Casino Revenue Plummets Following Anti-Pipeline Protests

Casino Revenue Plummets Following Anti-Pipeline Protests

With the infamous anti-pipeline protest camps now reduced to a muddy pile of garbage, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is coming to grips with some of the harsh realities of their month’s long crusade against the Dakota Access Pipeline. According to the Teton Times, the closure of Highway 1806 and local boycotts of the casino…

Letter: North Dakota Pipeline Protesters Are Disgraceful

Richard J. Palyo | Las Vegas Review-Journal It is apparent to me that the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters are like every other group of protesters in this country: They are hypocrites. Their cause was to stop the pipeline over fears of oil contamination of the Missouri River. I guess they were not so concerned about…

Editorial: North Dakota Pipeline Protesters Leave Behind An Ecological Disaster

Editorial Board | Las Vegas Review-Journal For the better part of last year, protesters poured into North Dakota to agitate against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Despite the fact that the company behind the project planned to use only private land and had secured all the necessary permits, the pipeline became a left-wing…

Letter From USACE Details Environmental Damage at Standing Rock Protest

A letter sent from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to Chase Iron Eyes – a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and anti-Dakota Access protest camp, details the multiple violations  of public use regulations for Corps lands and the ongoing environmental damage occurring as a result of the protest activity. The specific code…

What Happened to the Millions of Dollars Raised by Standing Rock Protesters?

Timothy Lee | Center for Individual Freedom Over the past seven months, millions of dollars have poured into online crowdfunding accounts associated with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s unjustified crusade against the Dakota Access Pipeline.  To date, the violence-plagued protest has cost North Dakota taxpayers more than $33 million dollars, and diverted countless resources to…

As Standing Rock Tribe Struggles to Defend Pipeline Opposition, Union Urges Streamlined Approval

As Standing Rock Tribe Struggles to Defend Pipeline Opposition, Union Urges Streamlined Approval

Erin Mundahl | InsideSources Representatives from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Energy Transfer Partners, and the Laborers’ International Union met Wednesday in a congressional hearing on energy infrastructure development. Over the course of the two-hour hearing, the Standing Rock tribe struggled to defend its opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Chad Harrison, a councilman for the…

Abandoned Vehicles Pose New Pollution Threat At DAPL Protest Site

Simon Lomax | Western Wire Officials in North Dakota are racing against time to move hundreds of cars and trucks from the site of an anti-pipeline protest before seasonal flooding sweeps the vehicles into the Missouri River. “There are roughly 200 vehicles down there at last count, ranging from cars and pickups to rental trucks,” George Kuntz,…

Three Members of Veterans’ Pipeline Protest Group Arrested on Drug Allegations

Barry Amundson | Inforum MANDAN, N.D.—The leader of a veterans’ group involved in the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline and two other members of the organization have been cited for drug possession. Matthew Crane, co-founder of the VeteransRespond group which has been at the protest camps, has been arrested for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia….

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