Stu - 09 Feb 17 - 11:05 AM

"Meanwhile, the Tribes in North Dakota are to be treated as they always have by white America, the US military and the US government and are now going to have the pipeline they don't want built on land stolen from them in 1868 that also contains Sioux burial sites. It will affect their immediate environment including their water."

Taking into account that the requirement for this pipeline and the decision to go ahead with it started in 2014, i.e. on Barack Obama's watch (The pipeline is 87% complete at the moment), it is a bit rich to lay all of this off on Donald Trump. Iowa State requirement was that those building the pipeline had to get voluntary "easements" (Access to construct, maintain, repair) covering 75% of the route, they got 82% voluntary agreements and have negotiated further "easement" agreements covering 99% of the route. The USACE were asked to produce an Environmental Impact Statement of river crossings and portions of the project related to specific permits, and issued a finding of no significant impact.

Tell me Stu how will this pipeline affect the immediate environment and water? The UK and Europe are crisscrossed with literally hundreds of pipelines carrying oil and gas what has been their effect on our immediate environment and water?