KXL Pipeline loses permit, but construction goes on

10 U.S. states join tribes for moratorium during pandemic

Ten U.S. states and the federal District of Columbia joined tribal government opposition to the KXL oil pipeline construction on May 7, calling for a moratorium on all permits for fossil-fuel infrastructure projects during the Covid-19 pandemic. The request follows an outcry in Indian country over ongoing Keystone XL Pipeline construction despite the most recent […]

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Lakota grandmothers fight man camps amid pandemic

Keystone XL Pipeline construction proceeds, bringing thousands of workers — and threat of Covid-19 — to reservation

The threat “causes eerie memories for us with the infected smallpox blankets that were distributed to tribes intentionally in the 1800s,” said Faith Spotted Eagle, a member of the Brave Heart Society and Yankton Sioux Tribe. “It is absolutely similar, whereby we lost thousands of people in our tribes along the Missouri River.”

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