[Trump] Administration Orders Easement For Construction Of Dakota Access Pipeline

As reported by NPR. The Washington Post has also reported on this story, with quotes from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, as well as its legal counsel, Earthjustice.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has responded.

So too has the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Honor the Earth issued the following statement just before 10pm Eastern:

REPORT BREAKING: Congressman Cramer says the Army Corps will issue the final DAPL permit- this would circumvent the EIS process and allow the company to drill immediately.

This is the trigger for the call to action. This is the moment to take a stand when our water is under attack. #NoDAPL

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe response to recent Trump/USACE actions re: DAPL

See it posted here.

Army Corps Opens Public Comment on Dakota Access Pipeline

As reported by Democracy Now!:

Meanwhile, the Army Corps of Engineers has begun accepting public comments on an environmental impact statement for the Dakota Access pipeline. Members of the public have until February 20 to weigh in on the proposed $3.8 billion project, which has faced months of resistance from members of hundreds of indigenous nations, as well as their non-Native allies.

[See all of Democracy Now!'s coverage from Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Reservation, and related crude oil pipeline and Native American environmental justice coverage, here.]

SumOfUs: Standing Rock action alert

Trump just signed orders smoothing the construction for the destructive Dakota Access Pipeline.

His announcement is no surprise -- we've been expecting him to roll back former President Obama's decision since November. In preparation, we've been helping plan the next international day of action targeting banks to divest from the dangerous project, which would endanger the water and sacred burial grounds of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

250,000 SumOfUs members have already signed the petition asking banks to pull their investments from the pipeline. Can you help us get as many signatures as possible strong before the next international day of action by sharing this campaign on Facebook?

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We know targeting banks to stop financially supporting this dangerous pipeline works -- we’ve already made some progress last November. Two days after we delivered hundreds of thousands of SumOfUs members’ signatures to Norway-based Bank DNB's headquarters, it pulled its investment in the pipeline. If we get more banks to pull out -- we can stop this pipeline from being built.

Please share this campaign with your friends on Facebook or copy and share this email if you prefer:

Dear Friends, 

Trump just gave the green light to the destructive Dakota Pipeline. Now, more than ever, we need to go after the banks that fund the pipeline and ask them to divest from the project.

We know targeting banks on this project works -- two days after a group I am apart of, SumOfUs, delivered hundreds of thousands of petition signatures asking Norway-based Bank DNB's headquarters to pull investment in the pipeline -- they listened! If we get more banks to pull out -- we can stop this pipeline from being built.

Will you join me and sign the petition: https://actions.sumofus.org/a/banks-need-to-divest-from-the-dakota-access-pipeline-now/?source=taf

Thank you

Standing Rock Sioux to Trump: ‘Creating a Second Flint Does Not Make America Great Again’

Column by Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan of Democracy Now!

[See all of Democracy Now!'s coverage from Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Reservation, and related crude oil pipeline and Native American environmental justice coverage, here.]