Old news becomes new news as the new congress pushes for the Keystone XL pipeline. Native Americans have already nixed this along with other oil pipelines crossing their lands.
“The House has now signed our death warrants and the death warrants of our children and grandchildren. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe will not allow this pipeline through our lands. We are outraged at the lack of intergovernmental cooperation. We are a sovereign nation and we are not being treated as such. We will close our reservation borders to Keystone XL. Authorizing Keystone XL is an act of war against our people.” - Rosebud Sioux Tribal President Cyril Scott.
Other members of the Great Sioux Nation have added their voice with Tribal resolutions opposing Keystone XL whose proposed path crosses the Oceti Sakowin or Great Sioux Nation Treaty Lands defined by 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties and within current boundaries of Rosebud Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Reservations.
The organization Honor the Earth, the White Earth Nation, Tribal governments in the homelands of the Anishinaabe and environmental groups have banded together to oppose both the Albert Clipper and Sandpiper pipelines from passing through their territory in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The proposed Sandpiper route travels directly through manoonin - wild rice - beds central to their way of life. They’ve introduced a lawsuit based on the infringement of the Treaty of 1855 that is supposed to protect the White Earth Ojibwe Tribes.
President Scott added, “The Lakota People have always been stewards of this land. We feel that it is imperative that we provide safe and responsible alternative energy resources not only to Tribal members but non-Tribal members as well. We need to stop focusing and investing in risky fossil fuel projects like TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. We need to start remembering that the earth is our mother and stop polluting her and start taking steps to preserve the land, water, and our grandchildren’s future.”
http://www.lakotavoice.com/2014/11/15/house-vote-in-favor-of-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-an-act-of-war/
http://www.honorearth.org/enbridge_sandpiper_pipeline