Bernie Sanders Statement on Dakota Access Pipeline Decision

[Donkees]

[RiverStone]

1. Fantastic news! Finally something since the election to cheer about!

And thanks to Bernie Sanders for speaking the truth for so many of us!

Power to the people at Standing Rock!

[Warpy]

2. The pipeline will still be completed

It will just be rerouted. It will also be more expensive and that will increase the cost of the oil flowing through it, increasing the price of the products refined from it. Perhaps increased cost will spur more conservation, but the pipeline itself is not being abandoned, just the short section that would have crossed reservation land/water.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. That is correct

It will go under the Missouri River. It will still have land condemned under imminent domain. It will still only pay landowners for PERMANENT easements, when mineral rights contracts are only for 25 years. And it will still carry the products of fracking. The is certainly a win for Native American sovereignty, but for the rest of us, not so much.

[lapucelle]

3. Thank you President Obama and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Next up....Sierra Blanca!

[demmiblue]

5. K&R! The water protectors are an inspiration.

[Donkees]

6. I hope you posted this in the video forum too :)

[demmiblue]

8. I did... no responses.

I have listened to it at least ten times!

I might buy it if it is on iTunes.

[zonkers]

10. That is great. Really.

[zonkers]

9. Shadow prez.