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So maybe I should wait until a new page but can someone sum up the North Dakota/water/reservation scenario?

Posted by volnelk Nov 21 '16, 10:07

I get that the company wants to build a pipeline through native lands and there are currently protesters.

What is the legal ruling? Are they building it already or is it still up for debate? What is the likeliest outcome?

Thanks. I'll hang up and listen.

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White folks originally protested so it wouldn't have to go through white folk land, so now it's being pushed through First Nation land. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 10:09 10
- The pipeline is not on tribal land. -- nm - IrishStephen Nov 21, 10:13 9
  - *shrug* yes, it is. Even when it was routed the other way. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 10:15 8
    - No, it's not. -- nm - IrishStephen Nov 21, 10:16 7
      - Then what's the issue? -- nm - volnelk Nov 21, 10:17 5
        
        It will travel under the river that the tribe gets their water from, and the fears that a leak in the pipeline will contaminate it. -- nm - IrishStephen Nov 21, 10:19 4
        
        But legally they are able to proceed? -- nm - volnelk Nov 21, 10:35 2
        
        In October, the situation was that the federal government suspended permission for the pipeline to go under the Missouri, so the company and the state - mara Nov 21, 10:39
        
        As far as I know, yes. There's an ongoing lawsuit to stop it, but I don't think they were given an injunction to halt it while the lawsuit is ongoing. -- nm - IrishStephen Nov 21, 10:37
        
        Ah. Thanks for explaining. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 10:22
      - The shrug was meant to indicate that all of America is built on tribal land. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 21, 10:17

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