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Dakota Rural Action and Tribes Resume Keystone XL Fight in Pierre Wednesday

We’ll get at least one good pipeline protest in before Senate Bill 176 takes effect and gives the Governor more power to quash public demonstrations:

DRA No KXL Rally 20170308Dakota Rural Action along with various tribes will be holding a “peaceful protest” against the Keystone XL Pipeline in front of the Hughes County Courthouse in Pierre Wednesday morning

According to Dakota Rural Action Community Organizer Tamra Brennan, the rally is in regards to a hearing that will be held in the courtroom involving a lawsuit against the Public Utilities Commission for approving the Keystone XL pipeline to run through the state. The rally begins at 11am.

After the rally, Judge Brown will hear Dakota Rural Action’s appeal of the SD Public Utilities Commission approval of TransCanada’s pipeline permit process at 1 pm [“Rally to Be Held at Hughes County Courthouse Wednesday,” KCCR News, 2017.03.07].

The tribes and Dakota Rural Action collaborated during the Obama Administration in protesting the Canadian tar sands pipeline. It’s good to see them resuming their collaboration against the black snake and the new black-snake lover in the White House.

We’ve lost the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline: a federal judge dismissed the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit this morning, and the pipeline may be moving oil next week. It’s time to move that protest energy to new battles, so bring your voices to Pierre tomorrow!

Contact DRA organizers via the rally Facebook event page.

8 Comments

  1. Robert McTaggart 2017-03-07 12:31

    Not sure what they are doing for monitoring at the moment. More environmental health and safety jobs wouldn’t stop any oil, but they would contribute to a safer pipeline, which in theory is what this is about.

    Nothing is stopping the protesters/protectors from developing alternatives to fossil-fuel based transportation (besides money of course). Producing jobs that develop or support the infrastructure needed to power vehicles that do not run on gasoline, if not using transportation that avoids fossil fuels, would benefit any cause to reduce or eliminate the use of fossil fuels. If that is not possible, then driving more efficient vehicles that use less fossil fuel is the way to go.

  2. Jana 2017-03-07 18:11

    Why are no Republicans including the Governor, Rounds, Thune, Noem and SD Legislature insisting that only steel made in the United States be used in these pipelines? Are they against real jobs for Americans? Pro foreign interests? Empty suits?

    Rounds and Daugaard gave away income for SD in comparison to what other states received. Why is that?

    Maybe Tony V. can clear that all up for us.

  3. jerry 2017-03-07 18:20

    Get a grip doc, the EPA is adrift, gutted and being dissolved. The Missouri River will be like the Cuyahoga River, when it caught on fire a dozen times. https://www.citylab.com/weather/2017/03/five-reasons-to-love-the-epa-before-it-disappears/518199/

    Make America Great Again, bulls#it. I remember America being great like trump wants, it sucked. Then, when we could not breathe anymore and the water was suspect, Nixon, yep the resigned one, put this great piece of legislation into reality.

  4. jerry 2017-03-07 19:27

    Meanwhile Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado are on fire man, 300,000 acres so far. http://www.nbcdfw.com/weather/stories/Couple-Among-4-Killed-in-Texas-Panhandle-Wildfires-415603973.html

    Kansas http://kfor.com/2017/03/07/oklahoma-truck-driver-dies-from-smoke-inhalation-during-kansas-wildfire/

    We had one of those bad boys in Cottonwood, so why would we want to continue on down that same path of destruction. Trump will break FEMA as well and then what ranchers and farmers, where ya gonna get your livelihoods back? Make America great again, yup, just like the 30’s.

  5. Robert McTaggart 2017-03-07 19:48

    I think after the cuts, the EPA will just be the EP.

  6. Mark Winegar 2017-03-08 06:38

    I will be at the rally representing the South Dakota chapter of the Sierra Club. Please join us.

  7. Rebecca 2017-03-08 07:23

    It’s going to be a gorgeous day for a rally!

    And, with SB176 drastically amended and stripped of its re-emergent emergency clause on the House side last evening, no imminent concerns about so-called public safety zones.

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