Never Underestimate the Effectiveness of Organised Community Resistance
After months of sustained resistance from indigenous people at Standing Rock permission for the pipeline to cross under the Missouri River has been withheld. Now is the time for an escalation of action along the entire pipeline route, the delays could kill the project entirely.
The pipeline is being built to transport 450,000 barrels of fracked oil a day from the Bakken shale field of North Dakota to a refinery near Chicago. The pipeline poses a major threat to water resources along the route and its construction has destroyed sacred native lands. A company called UKOG has plans to exploit the same type of tight oil in the Weald and Wessex basins in the UK. Their plans would also require back to back drilling and pipelines, read more…
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