Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now- MAIN- Blog
The Grand Forks Herald published an editorial which called for construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline to continue and for the ongoing protest in Morton County to cease: “In the eyes of the public, protesters who take the law into their own hands have two strikes against them. Violence results in the third strike. That means…
Throughout the lengthy and exhaustive approval process for the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, representatives of the men and women who would be put to work on the project repeatedly stated their intention to build the pipeline with safety as the top priority. This week, Supervisors from Lee County, Iowa decided to see firsthand…
The Dakota War College, a South Dakota political news site, published a piece that highlighted the disintegration of law and order in Morton County, North Dakota during the ongoing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline. The “Spirit Camp” at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannon Ball Rivers has become a site of lawlessness and…
The Independent Women’s Forum recently published a post which called the disruption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline a “safety and security risk.” In reports from the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, protesters have continued to forcefully and even violently engage both law enforcement and construction personnel. Not only have there been numerous violent incidents…
In an announcement today, the General Presidents of four unions: Laborers International Union of North America (LiUNA), the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), and the United Association (UA) announced that they have sent a letter to North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple. The letter requests that the governor use…
In a new opinion piece, Rob Port, editor of SayAnythingBlog.com, argues that anti-Dakota Access Pipeline protesters have done little to change their tactics and that it still remains unclear if Archambault even stands behind what he said. “Over the last days, I have spent a great deal of time, meeting and speaking with participants in…
Based on the actions of the protesters in North Dakota, you would think that the Dakota Access Pipeline is a groundbreaking engineering achievement and will be the first time a pipeline has ever crossed a body of water, ever. But as the popular North Dakota SayAnythingBlog pointed out earlier today, this is hardly the case. Here…
For over a week the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has protested the Dakota Access Pipeline by attempting to physically block access to the construction site. But when it came to the state review of the project which began almost two years ago, the tribe was nowhere to be found. The tribe has argued that the…
A recent opinion piece by the MAIN Coalition’s chairman, Ed Wiederstein, in South Dakota’s Argus Leader, highlighted the great news of the Corps of Engineers decision to release the permits for the Dakota Access project. As Wiederstein states, All systems are (finally) go. That is the significance of the recent decision by the U.S. Army…
In an article in the Bismarck Tribune, North Dakota’s Public Service Commission regulators defended their permit approval for the Dakota Access Pipeline and said they hope tensions between protesters and law enforcement at a site near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation would cool off in the days ahead while work continues. A few quotes from…
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