{"id":19627,"date":"2014-02-02T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19627"},"modified":"2014-02-02T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T19:11:00","slug":"big-oils-last-stand-gathering-clouds-form-epic-opposition-from-native-american-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=19627","title":{"rendered":"Big Oils last Stand: Gathering Clouds form \u2018Epic\u2019 Opposition from Native American Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oglala Sioux Tribe passed a resolution Friday banning TransCanada and former AFN national chief Phil Fontaine, who has been hired by the energy firm to deal with First Nations opposition to its Energy East project in Canada, from entering its territory.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Keystone XL \u2018Black Snake\u2019 Pipeline to Face \u2018Epic\u2019 Opposition from Native American Alliance<\/strong>
\nby Jorge Barrera – APTN National News – 1 February, 2014<\/p>\n

A Native American alliance is forming to block construction of TransCanada\u2019s proposed Keystone XL pipeline which still needs final approval from U.S. President Barack Obama after the State Department released an environmental report indicating the project wouldn\u2019t have a significant impact Alberta tar sands production.<\/p>\n

Members from the seven tribes of the Lakota Nation, along with tribal members and tribes in Idaho, Oklahoma, Montana, Nebraska and Oregon, have been preparing to stop construction of the 1,400 kilometre pipeline which is slated to run, on the U.S. side, from Morgan, Mon., to Steel City, Neb., and pump 830,000 barrels per day from Alberta\u2019s tar sands. The pipeline would originate in Hardisty, Alta.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt poses a threat to our sacred water and the product is coming from the tar sands and our tribes oppose the tar sands mining,\u201d said Deborah White Plume, of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, which is part of the Lakota Nation in South Dakota. \u201cAll of our tribes have taken action to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. State Department released its long awaited environmental report on TransCanada\u2019s proposed pipeline Friday. The report found that the pipeline\u2019s operation would not have a major impact on Alberta tar sands production which is also at the mercy of market forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cApproval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including the proposed project, is unlikely to significantly impact the rate of extraction in the oil sands or the continued demand for heavy crude oil at refineries in the United States based on expected oil prices, oil sand supply costs, transport costs and supply-demand scenarios,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n

The project will now go into a final phase which focuses on whether Keystone XL \u201cserves the national interest.\u201d Pipeline\u2019s environmental, cultural and economic impacts will be weighed in this phase and at least eight agencies will have input on the outcome, including the Department Defence, Justice, Interior, Commerce, Transportation, Energy, Homeland Security and the Environmental Protection Agency. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Oglala Sioux Tribe passed a resolution Friday banning TransCanada and former AFN national chief Phil Fontaine, who has been hired by the energy firm to deal with First Nations opposition to its Energy East project in Canada, from entering its territory. Keystone XL \u2018Black Snake\u2019 Pipeline to Face \u2018Epic\u2019 Opposition from Native American Alliance more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2258],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19629,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19627\/revisions\/19629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}