An FYI. The pipeline does not cross the reservation.
The Standing Rock Sioux claim that the pipeline will affect their water supply. Wanna see how full of shit they and the other protestors are?
Their water supply will be 70 yes count em SEVENTY miles away. AND this bullshit the tribal protestors are handing everyone is heightened by this little known fact that most of the media doesn't want to tell as part of their narrative of "poor Indians are going to have their water supply destroyed".
They got 30 million for a new water treatment plant. Lying sons of bitches that their water supply is threatened.
"The Sioux received about $30 million from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build a new water treatment plant, pump station, 5 million-gallon storage tank and several pipelines to feed fresh water to roughly 10,000 reservation residents.
The project has taken years to complete, but federal officials say the timeline was not affected by the Dakota Access controversy.
The existing intake valve is located in a shallow part of the Missouri River near Fort Yates, North Dakota, roughly 20 miles from the planned pipeline river crossing.
The new valve in Mobridge, South Dakota, 70 miles from the pipeline route, came online earlier this year. Once the pipeline system is completed, it will service the entire reservation, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation."
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"As of early next year, however, the Native American tribe will be gathering their water 70 miles (113 km) downstream of the oil pipeline's location, thanks to a long-awaited water treatment plant.
The reservation, which spans North and South Dakota, currently gets water 20 miles away from the pipeline's planned location.
While the scope of contamination of a future oil leak is difficult to predict, the distance from the pipeline to the new intake could reduce widespread contamination risks, regulators and environmental analysts said."
For Standing Rock Sioux, new water system may reduce oil leak risk
