The pipeline will likely still travel under the lake - the Army Corps of Engineers approved an easement, the final permission needed to construct the pipeline just two days after the vote. Originally, it was to travel north of Bismarck, North Dakota, until a predominately White community shot it down. The pipeline is slated to run underneath Lake Oahe, a water source for the Missouri River. The vote was a victory, and the product of months of talks within the city and with the communities opposed to the North Dakota Access Pipeline, a project meant to take oil from North Dakota to Illinois. It demonstrates that governments can put their money where their mouth is, even when it would be easier to stick with the status quo.Īlthough many knew it was coming, the City Council vote still sent a powerful statement: Seattle isn’t putting up with this. Seattle’s stand is an example and a symbol for communities across the country that seek to get out of environmentally abusive relationships with companies such as Energy Transfer Partners, the company in charge of DAPL. We do,” said Councilmember Debora Juarez, a member of the Blackfeet nation. “People say, ‘Money talks.’ No, it doesn’t. The City Council voted unanimously to not only remove money from Wells Fargo, but to ensure that the city avoid business relationships with companies that hold values contrary of those espoused by the city government. On the behalf of the Native American Community, we honor all nine of you today.” “Allies, people who work with us, we honor them. “I realize the vote has not taken place,” Heaton said. So confident, in fact, that they performed an honor song for the City Council and gave them gifts of mountain water, sage, lavender, cedar and a rock from their sacred river in gratitude before the vote was even cast.
Heaton and others involved in the resistance to the pipeline were confident in their victory. “The city is listening to us,” said Rachel Heaton, a member of the Muckleshoot tribe and the No DAPL movement in Seattle. The Seattle City Council had voted to take the city’s money out of Wells Fargo, a bank that invested in the Dakota Access Pipleline (DAPL). The cheers went up and the drums rang out.
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