Keystone Pipeline Protest Police U S States Have Been Trying To Criminalize Protests For Five
Biden has already committed to one of the most high profile demands from activists pledging to rescind a permit granted by president trump allowing the keystone xl oil pipeline to cross the.
Keystone pipeline protest police. The documents suggested that police were organizing to launch an aggressive response to possible keystone protests echoing the actions against the standing rock movement in north dakota. It runs from the western canadian sedimentary basin in alberta to refineries in illinois and texas and also to oil tank farms and an oil pipeline distribution center in cushing oklahoma. 3 2015 file photo the keystone steele city pumping station into which the planned keystone xl pipeline is to connect to is seen in steele city neb. Ap photonati harnik file.
None of these protesters have done anything so illegal or extreme that warrants such unfair and brutal treatment. Xl pipeline protesters could soon face immediate arrest and physical violence via tear gas and bean bag ammunition at the hands of law enforcement. The police said the protesters had been very aggressive and that the water was used to put out multiple fires they had set. Pierre tribal police are the only ones who can patrol a protest on tribal trust land near the keystone xl pipeline route but when it comes to tribes getting a piece of the states riot.
Like the keystone xl pipeline which i opposed since day one the dakota access fracked oil pipeline will transport some of the dirtiest fuel on the planet. The pipeline became well known when a planned fourth phase. In one 2018 blm document labeled keystone xl pipeline public safety issues officials discussed the available resources to respond to protests in montana. Stop the police from treating these innocent people like criminals and terrorists.
Regardless of the courts decision the dakota access pipeline must be stopped. Trump administration approves keystone xl pipeline the white house granted a presidential permit to transcanada to build the 8 billion pipeline friday morning.