5/1/21 The Dakota Access Pipeline Is Going to Suck Till The Pipes Are Gone

So you thought the Dakota Access Pipeline was out of the news for good?

Just one week after it lost its case in the U.S. Court of Appeals, which it went to after losing its case in a lower court, the Dakota Access company has asked SCOTUS to give it back its license to keep building towards its plan to pipe oil across the Standing Rock Sioux's reservation.

So what did the lower court say that so annoyed the Dakota Access firm? The court said a) the pipeline didn't have a valid permit to operate, and b) the project required a full-bore environmental review before it could get that permit. When the DC District U.S. Court of Appeals said the lower court was right, the execs weren't about to take that for an answer.

Here's the kicker: The pipeline company wants to operate, a-diggin' and pollutin' and beatin' up on the Native people right there on their own land, until SCOTUS gets around to looking at its case.

In the meantime, in case you haven't noticed, the energy industry pushed South Dakota state lawmakers into passing legislation that just about tosses inconvenient protesters into jail, where they're turned upside down and shaken until their last penny is removed from their pockets. The law applies to protesting organizations, too. That legislation was eventually declawed, but not defanged; it's still there to assist companies seeking a jugular.

The biggest problem, of course, is that the new right-wing SCOTUS loves to scatter injustice in its decisions and misery in its wake. If the pipeline doesn't get support from SCOTUS, it will be a miracle.

Let's hope it's all over before Russell Means rises from the grave in which he is now spinning.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/551193-dakota-access-appeals-lower-court-rulings-requiring-full?fbclid=IwAR0Wx1gyuyaZEvG31g7LcYkT4vO4sDB_wGXOCWCrJQDR6eCxWMkw61lsFK8