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| Native Americans after 'easy money' in pipeline fight |
| 2016-11-22 |
| [Washington Examiner] Proponents of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline say the Native American tribe protesting the project isn't all that hung up on whether the pipeline will use sacred land, and is really just looking for a bigger cut of the revenue. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has claimed that the project has encroached on its land, damaged sacred sites and would potentially harm a major source of their drinking water by going under Lake Oahe. Sources privy to the discussions say a number of offers had been made to the tribe, including the installation of water quality sensors, construction of a fresh water storage facility to store water in case of a pipeline leak, and other means of ensuring water quality. The developers also offered to create a rapid response team to respond to environmental accidents, including emergency vehicles provided to Standing Rock Tribal members, according to an email from one source involved in the discussions. But what continued to throw a wall up in the discussions was the tribe's demand to receive a fee for shipping the oil. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 I suspect a bit of Middle East money is helping to finance the protesters. If so I hope it drags on. Always happy to see bad people throw their money away. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-11-22 14:31 |
| #8 I figured it was that. I'd split the difference, lower royalties but jobs. Train and hire them to maintain and repair that portion. Your people, your lands, your leak. |
| Posted by: Pholurt Uloluling1696 2016-11-22 12:16 |
| #7 Silentbrick - that kind of labor practice is in force in virtually all our Third World operations: we have to hire a full staff of locals, who mostly don't even have to show up, and then have the work done by our expats (or done in Houston.) It's not as bad as it used to be in the countries that have been in the business a generation or two, as they now produce a good number of excellent white collar workers. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-11-22 09:58 |
| #6 When I was working in the oilfield up in North Dakota, two of the wells were on tribal land. The tool pusher, who was an American Indian explained that any rig operating on tribal land had to carry 2-3 'extra' employees from the tribe. They of course never actually went to the site, they simply got paid. He had some very unkind words to say about the practice and the people participating in it, since he felt it reflected badly on him. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2016-11-22 09:53 |
| #5 The protests on the original issues were largely found by the general population to be without merit, or at least not enough to get worked up over. So in order to gain more public notice and outrage they moved the protest off public land onto private land - a move intended to provoke a response. It did, the people who owned the land, and the heavy equipment on it the SJWs torched, reasonably demanded the law protect them. Of course THAT response was the whole point, allowing photo ops 'proving' their victimhood and the cruel evilness of the authorities. It still hasn't gotten them enough public notice and sympathy though, so --- more rock and Molotov cocktail throwing, more truck burning, more forced arrests, with each protester hoping it's a different one who finally becomes the 'martyr' they need. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-11-22 09:31 |
| #4 They may be an extortin g bunch of assholes, but: "Sources privy to the discussions say a number of offers had been made to the tribe, including the installation of water quality sensors, construction of a fresh water storage facility to store water in case of a pipeline leak, and other means of ensuring water quality. The developers also offered to create a rapid response team to respond to environmental accidents, including emergency vehicles provided to Standing Rock Tribal members," seems like pretty smart measures to start off with |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-11-22 09:18 |
| #3 It's the First Americans way :) wanting a small piece of the action. You kill our buffalo, we kill your pipeline Capiece? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-11-22 08:29 |
| #2 I noticed a high school classmate of mine went there to express solidarity 'with her native brothers and sisters' (she's of French-American extraction). She didn't stick around for the firehoses. For an unwise woman, it was a smart move. |
| Posted by: Raj 2016-11-22 02:11 |
| #1 Follow the money. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2016-11-22 01:52 |