PLEASE RE-POST AND SHARE As our brothers and sisters of the Mikmaq Nations in Canada are fighting the pipeline we find ourselves in a similar situation. We were informed today of a burial site in Kentucky that has been disturbed by a natural gas pipeline in Hardin County. We have written a press release that is being sent out this evening to a few select reporters and news agencies and then out to the mass media in Kentucky, Indiana and Kentucky. Contacts: Kentucky: Thomas Pearce 502-489-4700 Indiana: Albert Running Wolf Ortiz 812-560-4472 Press Release: Call for Halting of Bluegrass Pipeline! From the Offices of the American Indian Movement of Indiana and Kentucky Across the United States and Canada indigenous and First Nations people are fighting against the process of fracking for what industry is calling Natural Gas that harms the water and air, we all need to breathe. Now in the state of Kentucky where the conglomeration of Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners has come to begin building a pipeline across our state to carry this gas from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico against the wishes of the citizens of the state of Kentucky, Environmentalists and many others. In the process they are using misleading tactics to make property owners believe they have the law of eminent domain on their side. They do not. Now we find out that they are disrupting American Indian burial sites and other sacred sites in the process and they are trying to cover up the crimes that have been committed. The American Indian Movement has worked to protect indigenous sacred sites in the state of KY since 1987 when we worked to rebury over 1500 of our ancestors that were dug up by grave diggers at Slack Farm in Uniontown KY. We worked to successfully see legislation passed to make the disruption of indigenous graves a felony in Kentucky. We know that in the process of building this pipeline across the state they will encounter hundreds if not thousands of burial and other sacred sites. We are calling on the state of Kentucky to file charges against the companies responsible for disrupting graves in Hardin County and that tribal representatives of this region be contacted immediately as part of your federal obligations according to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act immediately. We call for a halt to the building of the Bluegrass Pipeline. We will be protesting and using every legal means possible to stop the further desecration of our sacred sites and the environment. If the state of Kentucky fails to act we may be calling for emergency action on behalf of our members to stop this desecration of our people. We may at some point be calling for civil disobedience to these issues. Albert (Kope P’ay Ahn Kooie) Ortiz – Chairman Indiana Thomas Pearce – Chairman Kentucky
Posted on: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:22:02 +0000
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