
Standing Up Against Dakota Access Pipeline
The video was created by Democracy Now. The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is a proposed 3.8 billion dollar crude oil pipeline which crosses treaty territories, threatening the Missouri River and everything downstream. The pipeline would carry 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day from North Dakota's bakken oilfield to export points in Illinois. The project has been protested from the beginning by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and members of about 100 other tribes and people ac