Tagged: Standing Rock Sioux
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...
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...
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...
Early Tuesday near the northern U.S. border with Canada, protesters shut down all five pipelines through which tar sands oil flows into the country; nine people were arrested. The actions came just two days...
Despite intervention from the federal government, construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline continues in North Dakota. Protesters locked themselves to construction equipment for a second day Wednesday, about 70 miles northwest of the Sacred...
The governor of North Dakota activated the National Guard Thursday, ahead of a highly anticipated court ruling on the contentious Dakota Access pipeline construction. Nell Abram has more. Download Audio Calling it an abundance...
Protests are growing against the construction of an oil pipeline connecting the Bakken Oil fields on the northern U.S. border to refineries along the Gulf Coast of Texas. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download...