According to Say Anything’s Rob Port and Poltico’s Elana Schor, local law enforcement officials are growing increasingly concerned with the violence they have seen at the protest sites, but more importantly, the lack of attention it is gaining with federal officials. In a letter addressed to Department of Justice, Interior Department, and Army Corps of Engineers,…
As Standing Rock Fact Checker has previously discussed, Paul Picha, chief archeologist of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, released the official report on the Dakota Access cultural surveys. The final memo includes images and maps that reinforce their original position—no cultural material was found in the 1.36 mile stretch of the Dakota Access…
Last week, members of the ongoing Dakota Access pipeline protest claimed that pipeline security officials employed the use of tear gas via an airplane to disperse the increasingly hostile crowd of protestors. This is simply not the case. In a press release from the Morton County Sherriff’s department, the claim was easily debunked as the…
This past weekend, federal officials announced that despite the ongoing protest near Cannonball they will not evict protestors from their encampment – even though the protest sits on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land. In a story from the Associated Press, it seems that local voices are concerned with the decision. Pam Link, of the…
Five labor unions called on President Obama to allow for construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline to continue. In a letter released this morning, the unions said the action by the Departments of Justice, Interior, and the U.S. Army. will impact their members directly. The letter noted: Our members make careers out of jobs created…
Standing Rock and other Native American tribes will be future beneficiaries of energy infrastructure like the Dakota Access Pipeline coming online. Pipelines offer the safest and most cost effective means to safely carry crude oil produced in the Bakken to consumers. The existence of pipeline infrastructure encourages safe and environmentally responsible energy production on private,…
Even as rhetoric and emotions surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline swell, we have worked to ensure all responses have been fact-based and straightforward. Having said that, you may have wondered why the SRFC and MAIN Coalition didn’t have an immediate response to the Congressional letter sent to President Obama yesterday. Honestly, it was because it was…
As the legal battle surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline takes center stage, protestors are lobbing a variety of federal violation allegations against the Pipeline. But as Standing Rock Fact Checker has pointed out in the past – those claims are simply false. The Pipeline followed a 2+ year approval and permitting process at the federal…
“It appears from our initial reading that Congresswoman Moore’s amendment deals with reviewing the regulatory process only, and should have no impact – whatsoever – on the Dakota Access Pipeline or any other currently sited or approved infrastructure project. Should the Congress and Administration move forward with updating regulations, they must recognize a split in…
As Standing Rock Fact Checker has pointed out multiple times, those protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline continue to use petroleum products to carry out their disobedience and rally others to their cause. The hypocrisy can be seen in what has become one of the more emblematic images on the ongoing protest. The man pictured below…
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