Tagged: Dakota Access Pipeline
As people around the U.S. celebrated Thanksgiving, indigenous rights activists and environmentalists moved Thursday to reclaim a site near the route of the contentious Dakota Access Pipeline. Download Audio Opponents of the pipeline, who...
Police in North Dakota used rubber bullets, chemical sprays and water cannons in freezing temperatures Sunday night against opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Robert Packard has more. Download Audio The protesters, who call...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued another delay in the permitting process for the controversial Dakota Access pipeline. The stall came in a statement issued one day before a National Day of...
The Dakota Access pipeline project and the battle to block it both proceeded this week. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio The North Dakota State Capitol was briefly placed on lock-down Thursday when...
Tension grew near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation again Wednesday as indigenous opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline project faced off with riot gear-clad law enforcement. Tribe members were trying to cross the Cannonball...
The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe has severed ties with the state of South Dakota. The announcement came as the result of South Dakota Highway Patrol troopers being assigned to support North Dakota law enforcement...
A multi-state militarized police cohort forcibly moved indigenous pipeline opponents and their supporters in North Dakota Thursday. Download Audio Led by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, hundreds of police pushed protesters back from a...
The stand-off between the Standing Rock Sioux and the Dakota Access pipeline shows no sign of letting up. Indigenous opponents of the four-state, nearly $4 billion dollar pipeline have set up another encampment. Members...
Indigenous opponents of the Dakota Access pipeline are claiming land made officially theirs in an 1851 treaty and have set up a frontline camp directly in the path of the project’s construction. The latest stand off comes after police...
A North Dakota judge rejected charges against Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman Monday. Goodman returned to the state to continue coverage of the Dakota Access resistance camps and to face legal action against her. FSRN’s...