In that plan, the Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, is North Dakota’s linchpin. TOLAN: Turns out, officials here were protecting a grand plan worth tens of billions of dollars. POLICEMAN ON BULLHORN: If you do not comply, you will be arrested for violations of North Dakota laws. I wondered why North Dakota was so intent on not losing the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline. These seemed like tactics from another era or another country. TOLAN: In my five trips to North Dakota over the fall and winter, I was always struck by the intensity of the police and private security companies’ response - the dog attacks, the hoses dousing protesters in sub-freezing temperatures, the metal detention cages modeled on dog kennels, the numbers scrawled on the forearms of the people they arrested. OTHER MAN ON BULLHORN: You need to get out now… And if we follow the money of who’s paying them to get here, I want an investigation not unlike we do in a drug crime, not unlike we do in some terror, because they are terrorists. MAN ON BULLHORN: First of all, we need to know, these protestors that are here, right now, eighty-five percent of them, based on the arrests so far, are from somewhere else. Two Standing Rock demonstrators take to horseback as part of the Standing Rock demonstrations that peaked in 2016. They endured tear gas, rubber bullets, hypothermia, and vilification by the police and local media. TOLAN: For 10 months, thousands of overwhelmingly peaceful protesters stood on the front lines at Standing Rock. Living on Earth contributor Sandy Tolan spent months investigating the new oil wars. climate commitments they say, and the very health of the planet, are at stake. Gulf Coast.īut Native and climate change activists say the struggle against DAPL was just one battle in a much longer war, with a dozen more Standing Rocks on multiple front lines across America, as companies race to lay pipelines as quickly as possible. In the early spring last year Native activists rode their horses through the snow to the edge of the Cannonball River on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, pledging to kill the “black snake,” the nearly 1200 mile long Dakota Access Pipeline –“DAPL.” Well, that fight was lost, as in May thousands of barrels of fracked crude oil began flowing through that pipeline, heading to a terminal in Illinois, and then down toward the U.S. CURWOOD: It’s Living on Earth, I’m Steve Curwood.
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