By Dr. Robert W. Chase, P.E., The Marietta Times, January 6, 2018 It has become fashionable among some environmentalists to declare that little of consequence would happen to the nation’s economy if oil and natural gas production were to be...
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By Bob Adelmann, The New American, January 1, 2018 Fully operational since June, the Dakota Access Pipeline is lowering transportation costs, reducing tank car usage, reducing environmental and population risk, improving South Dakota’s financial condition, and putting the lie...
By James ‘Spider’ Marks, Major General, Ret., The Daily Caller, December 30, 2017 On the top of President Trump’s to-do list for 2018 is a plan to upgrade and expand America’s failing infrastructure. With our nation’s roads, dams and...
By Roger Larsen, The Plainsman, October 19, 2017 HURON – Dakota Access Pipeline has donated $20,000 to each of the 13 counties that it traverses as a goodwill gesture and to support emergency management agencies in South Dakota....
Minot Daily News, October 19, 2017 The spectacle of Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) protesters attacking their own protectors, attacking North Dakota civilians, damaging property and killing ranchers’ animals offered a stark contrast to how the rioters were portrayed...
Radio Iowa, October 19, 2017 The company that built the Dakota Access oil pipeline that runs diagonally across Iowa, from the northwest to the southeast, is making donations to emergency responders in every county the pipeline crosses in...
By Renée Jean, Williston Herald, October 18, 2017 Williams County Emergency Management Director Mike Smith has been raising money for a disaster medical assistance trailer. Tuesday he got another $20,000, this time from Dakota Access. Hess, Oasis and Burlington...
Bismarck Tribune October 17, 2017 The developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline is donating $35,000 to the North Dakota 4-H Foundation and another $35,000 to the North Dakota FFA Foundation. The contributions from Energy Transfer Partners will be used...
By Forum News Service, West Fargo Pioneer, October 17, 2017 Three press conferences were held to present the donations Tuesday, Oct. 17. The donations were “offered in goodwill by the company” and can be used to purchase new equipment,...
By Amy Sisk, Prairie Public News, October 10, 2017 The Dakota Access Pipeline is raising the price of Bakken crude and making it more competitive with other shale plays, according to North Dakota officials. For years, the state’s remote...
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — There are hundreds more jobs than takers in the heart of North Dakota’s oil patch. Finding a hotel room, parking space or table at a restaurant is no longer easy. More than two years after...
May 2, 2017 Editor, The Dakota Access Pipeline protesters are finally gone. Calling themselves “water protectors,” they contaminated a thousand acres of pristine grassland (also a sensitive wildlife habitat) and left behind mountains of trash, human waste...
By Dana Larsen, April 30, 2017 A fire on a Dakota Access pipe-line site near Newell Thursday night has been ruled an arson. About $70,000 damage was done to a contractor-owned skid loader that was set on...
SEAN HACKBARTH Senior Editor, Digital Content Don’t expect the Pipeline Wars to simmer down, because some radical opponents will go to any lengths to stop them. Inside Sources reports one group of pipeline protesters is selling an...
By Jack Gerard and Terry O’Sullivan The State Department’s recent granting of a long-awaited permit for the Keystone XL pipeline affirmed what common sense and an exhaustive review process made clear long ago: Expanding energy infrastructure serves both...
Energy Transfer Partners Chairman and CEO Kelcy Warren weighs in on the Dakota pipeline and President Trump’s economic agenda. Energy Transfer Equity Co-Founder & CEO Kelcy Warren said that President Trump is doing “extremely well” and is glad...
By TIM KJOS from Kulm Today, The Jamestown Sun, March 29, 2017 The aftermath effects of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests are long and many and won’t be solved in short order. Points of dispute have existed since...
By Tony Clark, Real Clear Energy, March 28, 2017 In recent weeks, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers handed down the final easement needed for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross Lake Oahe in my home state of...
By Valerie Richardson, The Washington Times, March 28, 2017 After nearly a year filled with protests, delays and political machinations, the Dakota Access Pipeline has finally been filled with oil. “Oil has been placed in the Dakota...
By Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, March 24, 2017 The Keystone XL pipeline, which would stretch over 1,200 miles and cost $8 billion, is a big project that has faced many hurdles. One of those was removed Friday when...
By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times – Tuesday, March 21, 2017 The next activists who try to burn a hole through the Dakota Access pipeline may find that carbon pollution is the least of their problems. ...
By The Washington Times, March 15, 2017 The Dakota Access Pipeline that triggered the resistance of the Indians, or Native Americans as some of them want to be called, is nearly complete and ready to take oil to...
By Chris White, Daily Caller, March 14, 2017 Federal officials carted away nearly 1,000 dumpsters of garbage from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) protest campsites on government land in North Dakota. The Army Corps of Engineers completed its...
By Brooke Singman North Dakota is expected to gain $100 million or more annually in tax revenue once crude oil begins flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline, according to an Associated Press report released on Thursday. That’s...
By Paul Danish The activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline call themselves “Water Protectors,” but there’s a more evocative one-syllable Anglo-Saxonism that better describes them. Slobs. Now that the last of the Protectors have been hauled out...
By Natalia Castro The left is destroying their own causes; as they frame themselves as selfless environmentalists, following their funding shows these radicals’ true aims. Now, as North Dakota deals with the $33 million of costs associated with...
By JAMES MacPHERSON BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota stands to gain more than $110 million annually in tax revenue after oil begins coursing through the Dakota Access pipeline, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. The...
By Mike Sasser Victimization is all the rage these days around the nation. In today’s world of polarized identity politics, things like “victimhood” and “outrage” are the new “successful” or “heroic.” While that may seem a bit Orwellian,...
By Mattie Hjelseth BISMARCK, ND – A hectic week as law enforcement worked to clear the Oceti Sakowin protest camp. As officers moved in, and protesters moved out, garbage wasn’t the only thing abandoned. Two dogs and six puppies...
By Susan Shelley When does a protest go so far over the line that reasonable people should start protesting the protest? Possibly now. Wells Fargo has been targeted for destruction by people who are angry that the...
North Dakota Access Pipeline Protestors Light Their Camp on Fire, Spew Greenhouse Gases Into The Air
Liberal “environmentalists” and global warming fanatics have been camping along the North Dakota Access Pipeline route for months, demanding the project be shut down for the sake of preventing climate change. After numerous clashes with law enforcement and...
By Richard Kauzlarich, Opinion Contributor Last week’s House Energy and Commerce hearing on infrastructure development explored opportunities to improve America’s economic competitiveness through infrastructure. This could begin a unique opportunity to hear voices from across the political spectrum...
For the better part of last year, protesters poured into North Dakota to agitate against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Despite the fact that the company behind the project planned to use only private land and had...
President Donald Trump’s recent executive actions give fresh hope to the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines. And that’s the way it should be. We applaud Mr. Trump’s executive action to ease the way for the government to...
The Land of LaDonna’s Last Stand The day after Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota issued an evacuation order for the Oceti Sakowin Camp, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) delivered a notice to LaDonna Allard (the founder and...
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By Erin Mundahl, InsideSources, February 15, 2017 Representatives from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Energy Transfer Partners, and the Laborers’ International Union met Wednesday in a congressional hearing on energy infrastructure development. Over the course of the two-hour...
House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Energy Hearing on Modernizing Energy and Electricity Delivery Systems February 15, 2017 Testimony of Joey Mahmoud On behalf of Energy Transfer Partners Mr. Chairman, it is a pleasure to be here...
By Tom DiChristopher, CNBC, February 13, 2017 A U.S. District Court judge on Monday denied a request from Native Americans for a restraining order that would have temporarily halted work on the hotly contested Dakota Access Pipeline. ...
Inforum, February 13, 2017 The legal fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline river crossing near Cannon Ball, N.D., is not over, but the safe bet is that the last phase of the controversial project is a go. Two...
By Amy Dalrymple CANNON BALL, N.D. – Construction has resumed on the Dakota Access Pipeline as opponents raise new arguments in court to continue fighting the project. Energy Transfer Partners estimates it will take 60 days to...
By Scott Hennen, Minot Daily News, February 9, 2017 Throughout the protests surrounding the Dakota Access pipeline in Morton County, N.D., many people have been asking how these protesters are being funded. Anyone who takes even a moment to...
Receipt of easement allows Dakota Access to complete construction of the pipeline Completion of previously announced debt financing and the closing of a sale of a minority equity interest expected within days Dallas, TX – February 8, 2017 –...
Former Obama Administration Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell released a statement earlier today on Twitter about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to issue the final easement for construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. In response, MAIN Coalition...
By Tom Jackman | Washington Post When top members of the National Sheriffs’ Association met with President Trump in the White House on Tuesday morning, one of their chief requests was for federal help dealing with demonstrators at the...
After Months Of Protesting In Morton County, North Dakota DAPL Protesters Left Behind Trash And Waste That Could Lead To An Ecological Disaster The U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers Declared The Protest Camps On Federal Land Must Be...
Burning teepees, floating buffalo and zombies: Dakota Access pipeline protest plagued by ‘fake news’
By Valerie Richardson The photo was startling, showing teepees engulfed in flames with a caption condemning police for setting a Dakota Access protest camp on fire. The only problem: It wasn’t true. Even as the image created...
By Claire Bernish Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault II now seems actively opposed to the #NoDAPL movement Says Dakota Access will not ‘kill our nation’ Takes issue with the phrase ‘water is life’ Wants water protectors to...
ND PIPELINE PROTEST UPDATE 1-31-17 – ARRESTEE CRIMINAL HISTORY Arrested Protesters’ History Of Criminal Activity There have been 595 protesters arrested in connection with anti-pipeline riots and protests. Just 6% of those protesters are from North Dakota, while the...
By Richard Epstein – 1/26/17 In effect, even though Dakota Access was tasked under the applicable statutes to conduct the requisite surveys, the SRST refused to cooperate with them, only to insist thereafter that they were not allowed to...
By Dallas Morning News Editorial Board – 1/26/17 – We’ve examined those (Standing Rock Sioux) concerns and don’t find them persuasive. The route does not cross the reservation and while it does travel underneath the Missouri River, the primary...
Things may finally be calming down out at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camps. Well… maybe. Despite winning a temporary victory from former President Obama (it’s hard to say that without smiling) on his way out, many of the...
By Troy Johnson With our new administration coming of Friday, hopefully the Dakota Access Pipeline will get completed. This protest thing really gave North Dakota a black eye. Not only did the protest stop jobs, but now it looks...
One of American Indian tribes opposed to a contentious multi-state oil pipeline in North Dakota has formally asked activists to vacate makeshift campsites located near its reservation. Standing Rock Sioux’s tribal council announced Saturday that it passed a resolution...
The rhetoric used by protesters on Facebook and other social media profiles shows the divides between not only the protesters and police, but also between the protest camp and the Standing Rock Tribe itself. In the past several weeks,...
FORT YATES — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council unanimously voted to support the district of Cannon Ball in asking all Dakota Access Pipeline protesters to leave the area and canceling plans for a nearby winter camp. “All the...
PRESS RELEASE Protestors provoke law enforcement Protesters cutting wire and engaging Law Enforcement and National Guard line. Located on the shore of the Missouri River below the DAPL horizontal drill pad. After protesters cut through and...
Forbes – C. Dean McGrath, Jr. JAN 12, 2017 Last month, the Army Corps of Engineers, pursuant to political pressure, reversed its prior decision and denied the final permit needed to complete construction of the Dakota Access...
Over recent days, the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) has sent Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to five government agencies seeking information on communications between officials at those agencies and Jodi Gillette, the sister of the Chairman of the...
In recent weeks, it’s become clear that many of the Standing Rock protestors are aligned with various outside progressive groups, not native Americans. Now a new report by Inside Sources shows how George Soros and Tom Steyer influence-peddling progressive organizations...
By Bette Grande The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) crosses the Missouri River near the water plant serving Williston, North Dakota, my hometown. However, you would never know that based on the national media coverage of the DAPL protests....
January 9, 2017 BISMARCK, ND – A snapshot of resources and costs diverted from normal operations to support State and Local response to ensure public safety and law and order in Morton County and the Bismarck region due to...
By Blair Emerson, The Bismarck Tribune, December 28, 2016 Police arrested five Dakota Access Pipeline protesters for criminal trespass Tuesday. The arrests were made around 1 p.m. after 11 protesters crossed the frozen Cannonball River to Turtle...
By Guy F. Caruso, The Investor’s Business Daily, December 28, 2016 My experience within the U.S. government and the International Energy Agency has focused on global energy markets, energy policy and national security. I continue to follow the...
By Editorial Board, The Washington Post, December 6, 2016 THE OBAMA administration announced Sunday that it is denying an easement needed to build the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would run crude oil from North Dakota to Illinois. The...
BY CRAIG STEVENS – 09/21/16 05:45 AM EDT Any large infrastructure project will generate some opposition, and that is understandable. Progress is often initially challenged; eventually, though, calm and respectful dialogue usually brings supporters and opponents together to find...
The standoff isn’t about tribal rights or water, but a White House that ignores the rule of law. By KEVIN CRAMER Dec. 6, 2016 7:40 p.m. ET A little more than two weeks ago, during a confrontation between protesters...
Billings Gazette by Governor Jack Dalrymple Dec 14, 2016 The Dakota Access Pipeline, an oil pipeline which starts in North Dakota and will route to Illinois, has been marred by a steady stream of misinformation and rumor. As governor of...
By Jillian Kay Melchior | 6:54 pm, December 12, 2016 Since his heart attack 10 years ago, Jeff Hinz had tended as carefully to his health as he had to his ACE hardware store. Both had flourished. But as...
By Max Grossfeld | Posted: Mon 11:19 AM, Dec 12, 2016 | Updated: Mon 11:25 AM, Dec 12, 2016 BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota officials are calling out the federal government for what they say is a lack of...
By Herald Staff, Boston Herald, Sunday 20, 2016 With hundreds of demonstrators on site and more around the country having produced three months of rallies in opposition, the Army Corps of Engineers reversed itself and decided not to approve...
By Mike McCleary, The Bismarck Tribune, December 11, 2016 Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., stressed the potential long-term impact of the decision. “Refusing the easement has ramifications over the long term. If companies and individuals cannot rely on...
Thousands of vets came to support Standing Rock, but tribal leaders say it was a disaster By Liz Fields on Dec 9, 2016 The arrival of thousands of U.S. military veterans to North Dakota’s Standing Rock protest camp last...
By Anthony Caso, The Hill, December 9, 2016 In the latest development on the Dakota Access Pipeline, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that it will withhold the final easement under Lake Oahe needed to complete the...
Investor’s Business Daily, December 6, 2016 Politics: If you want to know why the economy has been struggling so much under President Obama, look no further than the arbitrary and capricious decision by his Army Corps of Engineers to...
By Post Editorial Board, New York Post, December 6, 2016 The Obama administration’s move to shut down work on the Dakota Access Pipeline has a New York angle: The same hysteria is regularly at work here, too. ...
By The Editorial Board, USA TODAY, December 5, 2016 Blocking projects won’t keep oil in the ground The United States has 72,000 miles of crude oil pipeline. Yet each proposal to add 1,000 miles or so is...
By Michael Lynch, Forbes, December 5, 2016 The government’s decision to halt the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline will hearten its many opponents, but will have no significant practical effect. If anything, this represents a victory of image...
By Brigham McCown, Real Clear Policy, November 23, 2016 The 2016 election will go down in history as one of the more toxic and divisive in modern American history. Yet it is worth considering at least one issue that received...
By Richard Epstein, Investor’s Business Daily, November 22, 2016 Right now a major energy and environmental fiasco is playing out over the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). This 1172-mile pipeline, when completed, will move 470,000 barrels of oil...
By Ret. Major General Spider Marks, Omaha World-Herald, November 17, 2016 Having failed to stop the Dakota Access pipeline through both the regulatory process and the federal court system, opponents have resorted to dirty politics. In their most shameful tactic...
By David Shipley, Bloomberg View, November 10, 2016 A pipeline in North Dakota has become a rallying cry for protesters seeking to stop new fossil fuel projects. Their goal — reducing emissions — is the right one, but...
By Jessica Ravitz, CNN Updated 5:21 PM ET, Thu November 3, 2016 Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, North Dakota (CNN)Ask around and you’ll hear stories of pipeline protesters who’ve traveled great distances. They’ve come from Japan, Russia and Germany. Australia,...
By Tom Dennis, Grand Forks Herald, November 3, 2016 In a recent column, North Dakota author and speaker Clay Jenkinson described events at Standing Rock as “part Woodstock, part Lexington and Concord.” The communal spirit of Woodstock...
By William F. Shughart II, Morning Consult, October 28, 2016 With its recent decision to deny the temporary injunction requested by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, the U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed what supporters of the Dakota Access Pipeline have...
By Merrill Matthews, Washington Examiner, October 25, 2016 To hear environmental activists tell it, the Dakota Access Pipeline Project has run roughshod over Native American rights, heritage — and objections. But to hear the federal judge presiding over the case...
Thursday, September 15, 2016 6:44 a.m. CDT MORTON COUNTY, N.D. (KFGO) – A bizarre twist to the Dakota Access Pipeline protest underway in Morton County, North Dakota. Youtube video’s posted online by “Anonymous Agents” have issued threats against President...
By Ed Wiederstein, Bismarck Tribune, August 29, 2016 More than two weeks ago we saw the start of a public protest by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe begin to capture the media’s attention. After setting up a “Spirit Camp” back...