Dakota Excess, KXL in Biden administration crosshairs

President-elect Joe Biden has never spoken publicly about the Dakota Excess pipeline, but last spring Senator, now Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, signed onto a legal document urging a federal judge to revoke a key permit for the pipeline and to protect the integrity of a federal law governing environmental reviews of infrastructure projects. 

Recall that mercenaries and National Guard troops brutalized many of the thousands of demonstrators opposed to the Dakota Excess pipeline who camped on federal land near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. In its aftermath some 761 people were arrested between early August, 2016 and late February, 2017. 

Trump apparatchiks even referred to the American Indians and their compatriots as jihadists and insurgents. 

During the 2014 election cycle Republican South Dakota former Representative now Governor Kristi Noem enjoyed a $2500 face lift from Dakota Excess parent, Energy Transfer Partners, the Texas company that gave nearly $321,000 to Republicans and less than $27,000 to Democrats. In 2015 the South Dakota Public Utilities Cartel (PUC) voted against an environmental impact study of the Dakota Excess pipeline route.

Someone needs to remind Republicans that the train can’t go any faster than 10 MPH between Fort Pierre and Wall because the geology destroys the rail bed every year. I called on numerous businesses in Philip, two restaurants in Midland and the school for nearly five years. The groundwater is undrinkable and eats ice makers just for fun. 

Biden is expected to stop the Keystone XL ecocide immediately after his inauguration, too.

It also seeks to ensure the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers “takes seriously” issues raised by Native American tribes fighting the pipeline. The pipeline crosses under the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and tribal members there are concerned about a potential oil leak. “The Biden administration can shut down the pipeline on Day 1 with the stroke of a pen,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney representing the tribe in its longstanding lawsuit against the Corps.

Read the rest at the Bismarck Tribune.