No their land is not where the expansion is. They can't just enlarge it from what was already agreed upon unilaterally. That enlargement calling it a national monument is a slipshod effort to bring it under protection of International law so it can be claimed by the UN as a protected area under Agenda 21. Perhaps you should study the whole situation a little better.
Short answer "yes" you are correct, long answer "NO with a but"........even if the pipeline is not technically on Indian land but it still poises a threat to the aquifers that supply their water. It's akin to having a nuclear power plant being built right next to your property.....as long as everything is "A-OK", you are fine......but you are still one **** up from being in deep shit with one mistake. What worries me the most is that the uber rich are buying up fresh water aquifers.....I don't like this at all......not a bit.
Yes, I have studied this big money buying up our water... Nestley sucks up the water in the great lakes.. bottles it for profit in China. I seriously want to move from the city and buy property with water for my families future...
Throughout most of the west if you want water for over a half or an acre (can't recall for sure which thinking more the half) you must buy or get water shares. An uncle in New Mexico on a small acreage told me when we stopped and saw him about thirteen years ago, he didn't even have the right to drill a well on his own land (that is screwy not even enough for the house). Here in Iowa they talked most all the rural people into filling their wells. I declined and told the guy "why would I give of my free water that God provides". We paid for the rural lines to be put in and I paid their five year service fees but we only used it for a few months. That three hundred dollar a mo. water bill actually using their water wasn't going to cut it for me. We had a twenty-five dollar all you could use Spring source in Idaho before moving here. They also changed that and made the city put in more expensive wells as the farm above the aquifer were putting so much nitrates both fertilizer and from cows (pee/poo mostly large dairies that moved in from Ca.) into the soil it was going directly down into the aquifers. Anyhow check on all aspects of those type issues where ever you decide to go.
I went back to Duluth Mn. for a month last fall, so we are mid west neighbors, I grew up there My sister has a well, and she bought the property just for that reason..
I am just dreaming about buying land, and am on Trulia a lot, I love looking..
My family will just move in with you if something happens...haaaa