Sacred Stone, North Dakota — While Keystone XL, perhaps one of the most newsworthy oil pipelines in recent memory,
lies dead at Obama’s feet, the
government has silently approved its
replacement. Although not specifically an inheritor for Keystone, the
Dakota Access Pipeline Project (DAPL) measures only seven miles shorter and seeks to achieve the same ends as Keystone: moving domestically mined crude oil overland to be refined for export and consumption.
Like Keystone, DAPL has also become a focus of
environmental protestors and activists, specifically among
Native Americans who, understandable and legally, see the government approval as having come at their expense, and with complete indifference to territorial and treaty rights.
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