G08: I&S Big Business/Small Communities: TarSands

This guide aims to provide Native American perspectives on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,200 mile oil pipeline built through the land of the Standing Rock Sioux people and across the Missouri River which provides drinking water and water for agriculture for millions of Americans. The tribe was not consulted during the planning or approval of this project though their ancestral lands and sacred sites were devastated during construction. The phrase Mni wiconi is Lakota and means "Water is Life" which is a guiding principle of the movement.

The Keystone XL pipeline is a disastrous project of tar sands oil companies that will do serious damage to our country and climate. If built, the spill prone pipeline will carry 800,000 barrels a day of toxic tar sands bitumen, from the tar sands fields of Alberta, Canada, across our entire country to the shipping ports of the Gulf Coast.
Read more: What are the Tar Sands? |