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Outside Cannon Ball, North Dakota, there is a <\/span>standoff\u00a0<\/a> between law enforcement officers and Native Americans that are backed by thousands of environmental activists. This has drawn the world\u2019s attention to how fossil fuel extractors can ride roughshod over the land rights of indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n

Protestors, who call themselves \u201cwater protectors\u201d, want to halt the construction of a 1,900 kilometre pipeline that will link Bakken, one of\u00a0the largest shale oilfields in the US, to distant refineries in Illinois.\u00a0Tribal chairman\u00a0David Archambault\u00a0fears that crude oil leakage from this Dakota Access Pipeline could taint Lake Oahe, the main water source for his Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and some 18 million Americans downstream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Preventing the bulldozing of sacred sites and burial grounds nearby is vital for his tribe, which lost its prime agricultural land to the Oahe dam and reservoir in the 1950s despite a treaty signed back in 1851.\u00a0Two years of opposition<\/a> to the fast-tracked mega-pipeline began in the courts with lawsuits and appeals, but has morphed into a showdown between armed police and Native Americans supported by eco-activists and celebrities.<\/p>\n

Allies from 300 indigenous tribes and a throng of supporters keep gathering in North Dakota, in spite of violent clashes with authorities and weather that is increasingly bitter cold. Police used water cannons, rubber bullets, attack dogs and tear gas grenades against crowds that include children and tribal elders. <\/span>Ultimately the Army Corps of Engineers\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0it would\u00a0deny a permit to tunnel beneath the\u00a0Missouri River until an environmental impact report was completed and alternative routes explored.<\/p>\n

The Texas-based\u00a0company Energy Transfer Partners is determined to complete the US$3.7 billion (25.4 billion yuan) pipeline and has rejected outgoing US President Barack Obama\u2019s suggestion to reroute the project, as it was around the city of Bismarck to avoid ancestral lands. President-elect Donald Trump <\/span>reportedly<\/a> counts the company\u2019s chief executive, Kelcy Warren, among his most generous political donors,\u00a0so there is a renewed sense of urgency to end the dispute before Trump\u2019s administration begins on January 21. Meanwhile, Energy Transfer Partners is suing for federal reimbursement of the cost of construction delays plus legal fees.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe ask that you offer a prayer for sensibility and common sense on behalf of all the two legged, as this is not just a Lakota (or Dakota) issue, this is a human issue,\u201d Archambault wrote in the\u00a0<\/span>Native Sun News<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThis land that is being disturbed was once ours. Our Indian Nations lived and governed our people all over this territory. This land across the Cannon Ball River that is now threatened was forcibly taken from us and there was nothing that we could do about it then and now. Nonetheless, we still believe that we are the keepers of this beautiful land.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nBuffalo on the Badger-Two Medicine reservation in front on the mountain area where the controversial drilling lease was planned.\u00a0(Image by Tony Bynum)<\/span><\/p>\n

Oil subsidies <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the pledge of the Obama Administration to phase out fossil fuel subsides, oil and gas companies continue to collect billions of dollars per year in the form of government tax incentives and tax breaks. Reforms have been repeatedly blocked by the Republican majority in Congress and oil producers have come to rely on federal support, funded by taxpayers, even as the profitability of oil companies falls globally.<\/p>\n

The US government supports the oil and gas sector to the order of US$4 billion every year according to G20 assessments. Others have put the estimate higher<\/a>, at around US$17 billion. However, the American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying arm of the oil and gas industry,\u00a0argues<\/a>\u00a0that its industries are not uniquely subsidised, in fact many of the tax provisions labelled as \u201csubsidies for oil and gas\u201d also apply to other industries.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive taxpayer subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies\u2019 already enormous profits,\u201d\u00a0points out Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who last year\u00a0proposed an\u00a0End Polluter Welfare Act<\/a>, which would cut US$135 billion of US subsidies for fossil fuel companies over ten years.<\/p>\n

Without the estimated US$665 million in tax breaks it received last year, it is doubtful that the Dakota Access Pipeline would be shovel-ready. Instead, transport companies could have retrofitted and upgraded existing pipelines in order to move the Bakken crude across state lines to refineries. But their cash outlay would have been considerably higher.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many Native American tribes are understandably cynical about their chances of real cooperation with energy companies. For decades, Sioux tribes have been trying to get compensation for the loss of towns inundated for hydroelectric power. The eventual price of treating a range of medical issues related to pollution or emissions-linked climate change is difficult to figure even if no accidents occur.<\/p>\n

Loss of revenue from tourists who hike, fish, and camp near the scenic Lake Oahe will hit North Dakota hard once construction crews tunnel under the Missouri River and foul its pristine water. Hundreds of native bald eagles have already been disturbed by the people and machines assembling at Standing Rock. But loss of dignity is also a reality. Native Americans who gather in solidarity to express their concerns complain that law officials treat them like insurrectionists instead of like citizens with constitutionally guaranteed rights.<\/p>\n

Justice for who?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Failure to consult local tribes on pipelines or to secure their permission to build them has long provoked ire against energy conglomerates. Resistance against the Keystone XL pipeline and the Northern Gateway pipeline in Canada is based on environmental justice concerns and qualms about long-term carbon emissions and pollution risks.\u00a0What\u2019s more, when Native Americans attempt to assert their legal rights and protect traditional sacred spaces that happen to be located near fossil fuel resources, they find themselves up against big money and continual delays.<\/p>\n

For instance, the Blackfeet Nation in Montana tried to block construction for thirty years before federal agencies cancelled all but two of the drilling leases for natural gas and oil in their\u00a0pristine\u00a0Badger-Two Medicine area. (Seventeen leases were\u00a0issued with inadequate environmental impact reports during the Reagan era. Drilling has not commenced.)<\/p>\n

Bordering their reservation and Glacier National Park, the rugged terrain is the setting for the tribe\u2019s creation myth. During the Blackfeet\u2019s vision quest,\u00a0specific rocks, peaks and springs are considered portals to the spiritual world.\u00a0Medicinal herbs grow wild in what is also a critical migration corridor for grizzly bear and elk.<\/p>\n

US interior secretary Sally Jewell, who announced the cancellation in mid-November, recognises that the area is too wild to drill. \u201cIt should not have been leased to begin with,\u201d she said. \u201cThis sets the right tone for how business should be done in the future.” The Blackfeet chief now plans to bring wild bison back to the sacred lands.<\/p>\n

Also read<\/strong>: Lake Baikal pipeline threatens critical ecosystem<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Rich lands <\/strong><\/p>\n

The US Department of the Interior estimates<\/a> at least 15 million acres of potential energy and mineral resources lie untapped on Native American-owned lands. Nearly 20% of known oil and gas reserves are located on reservations, along with 30% of the nation\u2019s coal reserves west of the Mississippi, and 50% of potential uranium reserves.\u00a0Significant sources of oil shale, copper, and rare earth minerals have been discovered, too. Some tribal lands also hold considerable potential for solar and wind power.<\/p>\n

Petroleum and mining companies are eager to start exploiting these tribal resources. Last April, the US Senate <\/span>amended<\/a> energy policy in order to remove obstacles to exploration. This was purportedly done to create economic opportunities for impoverished tribes, some saddled with unemployment rates of 85%.<\/p>\n

The policy to increase American energy independence already has major repercussions in the western United States, where technological advances such as directional drilling and fracking have opened up huge new areas for exploitation. Government subsidies for energy companies are generous: mainly through tax breaks or loan guarantees,\u00a0some US$20.5 billion (141.3 billion yuan) is paid to support oil, gas and coal production every year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nAn oil rig brought to the reservation by the Blackfeet for the purpose of drilling for oil. Although the tribe is arguing against drilling in the Badger -Two Medicine area, they have actively invited oil drilling elsewhere on the reservation. (Image by Tony Bynum)<\/span><\/p>\n

Land rights, land wrongs<\/strong><\/p>\n

Land rights are a sticking point. On most Native American reservations, property ownership is a jigsaw of private lots and trust lands. Under trust tenure, the government maintains the title to an individual owner\u2019s property as well as to tribal lands and oversees their use. Technically, contracts can be\u00a0negotiated directly between a tribal council and the oil industry, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs<\/a> is supposed to ensure that any lease meets \u201cthe best interest\u201d of Native Americans. However, federal\u00a0law also guarantees traditional tribal hunting, trapping, and fishing rights. It protects burial grounds, sacred sites and access to medicinal herbs.<\/p>\n

Priorities have changed since the <\/span>19<\/span>th\u00a0century, when many of America\u2019s indigenous people were either killed by soldiers or displaced from their homelands by immigrant settlers seeking farmland. Tribes were pushed onto reservations located far from fertile fields and population centres. Geographic isolation and deprivation ensued.\u00a0Citing eminent domain, the government can tweak\u00a0the\u00a0treaty terms and take back land deemed indispensable for public use. Hydroelectric dams came first, followed by gas and oil wells, then pipelines. Power to the people comes at a hefty price to the land\u2019s original inhabitants, who make up less than 2% of the US population.<\/p>\n

\u201cFossil fuel companies are determined to dig up every lump of coal and drill every ounce of oil and gas they can get their hands on \u2013 no matter the damage they cause to treasured public lands,\u201d said Friends of the Earth, an environmental campaign group. \u201cAnd as long as they are allowed to keep extracting fossil fuels, the disastrous impacts of climate change will only worsen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fossil fuel exploration in the US doesn\u2019t always pit corporations against Native peoples.\u00a0In fact, some\u00a0Navajo and Crow tribes have extracted and processed their own coal for years, which is used to power state grids.\u00a0For more than 500 years, the Seneca tribe has harvested oil by skimming off natural seepage, and viewed the black ooze as a sacred medicine. Its historic use as a tonic, purge, salve or mosquito repellent is well documented<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the scale of some proposed fossil fuel projects is staggering.\u00a0<\/span>Until a moratorium was called, plans for the mammoth Gateway Pacific Terminal and deep water port at Cherry Point, Washington, included a 900-metre dock where up to 487 tankers would load up with coal from arriving trains for shipment to China. The potential environmental damage alarmed the Lummi people, a tribe of salmon fishers that once controlled all of Puget Sound.\u00a0To rally Native Americans from other tribes to protect their own ancestral lands from fossil fuel extractors and their toxins, the Lummi hauled a totem pole from the Pacific coast halfway across America four years in a row.<\/p>\n

New peril<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Pipeline companies argue that moving flammable fuels by rail is fraught with perils, pointing to two dozen derailments<\/a> or explosions in the past three years alone. But oil pipelines are not hazard-proof either. Small pipeline leaks contaminate the land slowly and detection sensors are often inadequate. Large ruptures can be utterly catastrophic. When this happens, usually as a result of mechanical failure or corrosion, cleanup is a challenge.\u00a0Crude oil from tar sands is classified as \u201cheavy sour\u201d and must first be thinned with volatile and carcinogenic chemicals before it can flow through pipelines. Such dense oil will not float, as in an ordinary oil spill. Instead, the diluted bitumen (dilbit) sinks to the bottom where it mixes with river sediments and is very difficult to retrieve.<\/p>\n

When operators of the\u00a0Enbridge Pipeline disregarded their system\u00a0alarms in 2010, crude oil spurted out of a hole for 17 hours into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. Damage control took four years, yet some oil still remains unrecoverable. New regulations obviously are overdue.\u00a0<\/span>The dilbit that will flow through the disputed pipelines is currently exempt from an excise tax designed to fund oil spill mitigation. When the law was passed 36 years ago, thick bitumen from the tar sands was not yet considered to be crude oil.<\/p>\n

According to Dallas Goldtooth, a prominent activist from the Indigenous Environmental Network, \u201cThe best part of the work we do is that it\u2019s not what we\u2019re fighting against but what we\u2019re fighting for. We advocate for localised, small-scale renewable energy\u00a0production,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n

These photos have been republished here with permission from Terray Sylvester and Tony Bynum\u00a0respectively<\/em>. They are not licensed under Creative Commons. Please contact\u00a0www.terraysylvester.com<\/a> and tonybynum.photoshelter.com<\/a>\u00a0for republication enquiries.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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