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Jamie44
8 years ago

And now the pipeline marauders say they will keep going.  Just waiting for a new administration that will allow them to continue to rape treaty land.

whskyjack
8 years ago

honor them? for what? It is a nimby movement. Just because these particular nimbys are also indigenous peoples we are supposed to honor them?
and the “rape native lands”? really? This is bordering on silly.

So are we repeating the sixties ?  That means we are at the revolution for the hell of it phase or so it seems.
Now we understand Donald Trump better. I’m really too old for this rince and repeat shit.
Jack

Flatus
8 years ago

Yesterday evening when I recalled all of your kind thoughts to KumCho, she responded by saying “Let me out of this damned kimchi jar so that I can thank them properly!”

To her thanks, I offer my own, humble, Thank You.

Flatus

whskyjack
8 years ago

but hell, they’re just Indians…. so who cares?

lol

That’s keeping it rational.

 

Jack

Flatus
8 years ago

Jack,

There’s NIMBY and then there is IMBY. I think this particular case boils down to, would the planned route encroach on the sovereign rights of an Indian nation? If yes, deal with the nation’s government. If no, deal with the Federal government while trying to assuage the fears of the Indian nation’s activists.

This is not a case like the nation of Ecuador trying to collect a fee from companies placing satellites in geosynchronous orbit over the Equator. This, to my eyes, involves issues that I would fight over.

RebelliousRenee
8 years ago

I have no problem with what they protest.  Hell…  Rick and I protested a pipeline and compressor station that was going to be built very close to us.  (It proved to be unprofitable and the project was shut down).  And yes it was a case of NIMBY…  don’t give a shit.  What I’m not fond of is the thinking that Native Americans are special from the rest of us.  So let me remind some of what Jamie posted on this blog yesterday…  and I agree with it. “It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying… Read more »

sjwny
8 years ago

You are welcome, KumCho.

The main reason I am a part of all this here is that the Trail never forgets who has traveled it through the years. Memories are our trusty guides. This is truly a community of good souls.

Many thanks to Mr Crawford for starting this. Trail Mix is a testament to those he attracts.

Ya done good.

 

xrepublican
8 years ago

Some of the protesters are nimby. Some are banana : build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything.

sjwny
8 years ago

Curious if the (outside) protesters would eventually choose to live in that area, contribute to the tax base & add valuable $ to the economy. North Dakota is not an easy place to call home. My immigrant Grandpa had his first job in this country as a blacksmith in a town built for workers laying railroad track. When the job was done, he left, even after being offered land for a homestead. The area was that harsh & unforgiving.

Jamie44
8 years ago

My whole point is that you don’t encourage a negative.  There are three at work here.  One the US should honor its treaties.  We have treaties with indigenous peoples who have had them constantly violated whenever what was on them or in them became more valuable to anyone outside that group than the people living on them.  The US either honors its agreements or it doesn’t.  Claiming to be honorable when violating promises is insufferable. (2) Fossil fuels are a dying industry.  We may need it short term but encouraging additional exploration & development is economic stupidity when wind, solar, and… Read more »

Jamie44
8 years ago

Flatus

Sorry I missed the greetings to Kum Cho.  She is and always will be a welcome companion on the Trail.

xrepublican
8 years ago

I lived in ND for most of the summer of 1960. Prior to that I had cherished romantic (Hollywoodish) ideas about life as a Dakota warrior on the Great Plains. After that summer I no longer entertained such illusions.

North Dakota is ghastly harsh. By June it is already brown, and it doesn’t get green again until the next April.

xrepublican
8 years ago

ND has very good walleye, sauger, and yellow perch fishing.

Flatus
8 years ago

ND also has Grand Forks AFB home of 100s of 1000s airmen and their families since the 1950s. Rumor was, if one pissed someone senior off, a _very_ lengthy trip to Grand Forks could be arranged.

Flatus
8 years ago

The school buses driving thru our 25-mph housing area have slowed dramatically in recent days; wonder how long that will last.

craigcrawford
8 years ago

as always with this one, I’m having trouble working up to a strong opinion about this pipeline business. never have invested the proper energy into understanding the issues. but I’m all for the Indians getting their way now and then.

whskyjack
8 years ago

Well it looks like there is a real problem with facts First, Jamie, It is called Dakota access pipeline for a reason. It is for moving crude from ND to Ill. Canada is not involved. Pat, The standing rock reservation is like all  of rural ND very low population density about 3 people per sq mile. The Bismark metro area has a population of 130,000. The Standing Rock Reservation has a population of 8000 and half of those folks live in South Dakota.  The nearest town to the pipeline is Cannon Ball. It and the surrounding country side in the… Read more »

whskyjack
8 years ago

One other thing, environmentally, a new pipeline would be a much safer way to move the oil than the current method of rail cars and old pipelines converted to moving crude oil.

But then this isn’t about the environment is it?

 

Jack

whskyjack
8 years ago

As to the who lives in ND question apparently nobody if they don’t have too.  Of the 16000 enrolled members of the Standing Rock Tribe only about 6500 of them live on the reservation.

 

Jack

Jamie44
8 years ago

Jack

It is still their reservation.  I also consider the Bakken Oil field to be a monstrosity any way.  Anything that stops it, is a great idea.  It was a typical boom and bust development with major destruction as the price to pay for what is a temporary benefit.

 

Jamie44
8 years ago

Oh and I was thinking of Keystone as well as Bakken.  Don’t get me started on Fracking and other short term wealth for long term disasters.

 

Pogo
8 years ago

There’s NIMBY and there’s NIMY, which when it comes to treaties with Native American Tribes, there’s all the difference in the world.  I haven’t followed this very closely – other than closely enough to have nothing but disgust for the Sheriff’s department who hosed the demonstrators down in freezing temps.  I for one have little faith in the environmental safety of such pipelines – they are probably fine when they are new, but they are new only for a short while, then weather and wear work on them until they leak.  Relatively speaking big leaks are pretty rare it seems,… Read more »

Katherine Graham Cracker
8 years ago

The Army Corp of Engineers denied the permit for a section of the pipeline that goes under the river which is the source of water

Something people have a right to be concerned about.   I think a fracked oil spill in the river is an environmental concern  So maybe it is about the environment

 

Instead of gathering in DC – I think everyone should go to standing rock on inauguration day.

Pogo
8 years ago

Here’s Vox’s article on the stalled project, complete with a map.  Prof. Tobias is at my old law school, BTW.

RebelliousRenee
8 years ago

Jamie…  the big protest over the pipeline going through here (besides the fear of a leak) was that it wasn’t going to benefit this area either.  It would take gas fracked from upper state NY through western Mass., then up through southern NH (where I live) back into Mass. to the seacoast…  then loaded onto ships for sales overseas.  If it benefited anywhere in this country other than the pockets of the gas co., I still wouldn’t have liked it but at least would have understood it.  It is very much a “fuck Americans we want our profits” industry.

Jamie44
8 years ago

More of the Obama to Trump – Class to Trash shift in Presidency for Fun and Profit program

Secret Service Advertised as a new “Amenity” for Trump Tower

 

Jamie44
8 years ago

Meet the Press
The hustlers, hucksters, hacks, and cowards who helped elect Donald Trump
The article for all of us who have been swearing at TV screens for months.

xrepublican
8 years ago

“Rumor was, if one pissed someone senior off, a _very_ lengthy trip to Grand Forks could be arranged.”

-Flatus

A pal of mine claimed that Minot was way worse than Grand Forks. Apparently, Thule is the ultimate torture.

Pogo
8 years ago

I worked with a guy who had the “pleasure” of a year long duty assignment in Minot.  He described it as hell on earth. He said he could not believe how cold it was in January and February.  This from a guy who grew up in Alabama – go figure that he’d find North Dakota cold..

RebelliousRenee
8 years ago

My neighbor is from Minot,ND…   she thinks it’s balmy here in NH..  🙂

Craig…   if you did the changes to this site you talked about a few days ago….   THANK YOU!…  this site is super fast now.

Jamie44
8 years ago

Thoroughly enjoyed the President even being a little wonky and in the weeds.  I will BIGLY miss having a President who can speak coherently in complete sentences without repetition of one syllable words BELIEVE ME.

 

Pogo
8 years ago

Jamie, sigh… but it was nice for 8 years.

blueINdallas
8 years ago

PatD – Thanks for this thread.   The Obama admin could’ve & should’ve done something to protect the rights of the protestors, not to mention, actually do something about this issue. A huge thank you is certainly due to the veterans. PBS World had quite a few shows featuring Native American lives, from poisoned water causing birth defects to the history of La Crosse. Jamie is correct about the pipeline not only being a potentially dangerous pollutant, but also if no benefit.  If Trump hates China so much (talking about Keystone, here),  why would you allow Canada to destroy our… Read more »

Blue Bronc
8 years ago

“Why not Minot?”

Well?!   Don’t like a $4B pair of planes to protect his worthless ass, but invite a Japanese company to set up shop and export the profits to Japan?

Life is good now that I allow myself only a brief read of various political sites.

104 year old Pearl Harbor vet.  Wow.  My father and father-in-law were WWII vets.  European theater.  My father was supposed to go to South Pacific, but something happened and his orders were pulled back.  Good thing, his troop was wiped out.  He was a horse soldier.  Last of their kind.

Flatus
8 years ago

Minot is undoubtedly colder, but Grand Forks had many, many more outside jobs ranging from 24×7 security for nuclear loaded B52s to helicopters ferrying people out to ICBM sites to constant maintenance on the tankers and bombers. No excuses at the height of the Cold War. So far as Thule is concerned, it was said that there was a girl behind every tree. On my first Army tour in Korea I was assigned to a place called Wonju. It was so cold that we had to start each of our trucks every three hours during the night or else the… Read more »

Pogo
8 years ago

OK, Obamas Army Corps of Engineers is the one who stopped the goddamn pipeline for now. After January 20 bet that opposition will be dropped. He has been supportive of the protesters from day one. Indian affairs insiders creditd Contacts with Obama as being a moving force in their activities.

Is anyone watching trumps absolute fucking bullshit speech in North Carolina? He doesn’t know what the fuck he is talking about. Honest to God. We are screwed.

(Sorry, but Jesus)

GrannyMumantoog
8 years ago

Thanks Pat for honoring the protesters & the Vets. I was very proud of the Veterans who stood with the Native Americans. No matter how few of them there are who live there, they still have rights. Oh, I forgot minorities and poor people rarely have rights when money is involved!

Bottom line: Pipeline=Profit .period.

If someone could figure out a way to make billions from the sun’s free energy, we’d all start worshiping the sun…and paying for it!

I too will dearly miss having a President who doesn’t sound like a blithering idiot when he opens his mouth!

Pogo
8 years ago

Granny, 4 years from now what are the odds you’ll be saying:
 

“I too will dearly miss having a President who sounds like a blithering idiot when he opens his mouth!”

 
damned little I’d wager. ?

GrannyMumantoog
8 years ago

Pogo: There’s not a snowball’s chance in hell! Also, I doubt that I’ll have to wait 4 years to not say it LOL!

Jamie: That Meet The Press article is like a walk through the last year of screaming into the void!

craigcrawford
8 years ago

testing

Pogo
8 years ago

What the hell have you done, Poobah?

Flatus
8 years ago

RETREAD