House passes bill on #Keystone XL Pipeline - “Understand what this project is,” President #Obama has said. “It is providing the opportunity of Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land down to the Gulf where it will be sold everywhere else. That doesnt have an impact on US gas prices.” Another strong opponent to the project is Native American communities living along the pipeline’s route. It’s expected to run through the Sac & Fox Nation, a patchwork of land that belongs to 38 native tribes in Oklahoma. Each tribe has sovereignty over its own land and affairs, something that would be disrupted by the pipeline’s construction. Native Americans in the Black Hills of South Dakota worry that any spills could contaminate their water supplies with oil and chemicals. It would affect seven Native American reservations nearby. Some residents say the #pipeline violates 19th century treaties they made with the US government over land rights.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:49:51 +0000
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