Water is Life

Cliffy

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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the hundreds of Native protestors who have joined them in rural North Dakota won a huge but provisional victory in their quest to stop the Dakota Access pipeline, as the U.S. government announced late on Friday afternoon that it was voluntarily halting work on the project.

The triumph tasted all the sweeter because it had followed so closely after a seemingly immense defeat. Mere minutes after a federal judge declined the Tribe’s request for an injunction to stop construction on the pipeline, the Obama administration made a surprise announcement that it would not permit the project to continue for now.

“Construction of the pipeline on Army Corps land bordering or under Lake Oahe will not go forward at this time,” said a joint statement from the Department of Justice, the Department of the Interior, and the U.S. Army. “We request that the pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe.”

The Obama Administration Steps In to Block the Dakota Access Pipeline - The Atlantic


The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession and capitalist expansionism.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/standing-rock-dakota-access-pipeline-protest/
Ecofascist doublespeak

the Obama administration made a surprise announcement that it would not permit the project to continue for now.

“We request that the pipeline company voluntarily pause all construction activity within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe.”


Nothing is being forced.
 

Cliffy

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Homeland Security Cuts Water Supply To Native Tribes Protesting Pipeline

Right before noon, a pickup truck backed up to the water tanks and hauled them away, along with two air-conditioned trailers and a command center vehicle that had all been delivered last week by the North Dakota Department of Health at the request of the Standing Rock.


Homeland Security Cuts Water Supply To Native Tribes Protesting Pipeline – Page 2 – Indigenius American

Ummm....yeah, so we are running out of water...NOT!!!!
Fracking dumps billions of gallons of toxic waste and poisoned water int our aquifers. Good luck finding safe water to drink when tap water catches fire.
 

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Homeland Security Cuts Water Supply To Native Tribes Protesting Pipeline

Right before noon, a pickup truck backed up to the water tanks and hauled them away, along with two air-conditioned trailers and a command center vehicle that had all been delivered last week by the North Dakota Department of Health at the request of the Standing Rock.


Homeland Security Cuts Water Supply To Native Tribes Protesting Pipeline – Page 2 – Indigenius American


Fracking dumps billions of gallons of toxic waste and poisoned water int our aquifers. Good luck finding safe water to drink when tap water catches fire.

Good for them.Want to put taxpayers out of a job go buy your own water without taxpayer assistance.
 

PoliticalNick

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Homeland Security Cuts Water Supply To Native Tribes Protesting Pipeline

Right before noon, a pickup truck backed up to the water tanks and hauled them away, along with two air-conditioned trailers and a command center vehicle that had all been delivered last week by the North Dakota Department of Health at the request of the Standing Rock.


Homeland Security Cuts Water Supply To Native Tribes Protesting Pipeline – Page 2 – Indigenius American


Fracking dumps billions of gallons of toxic waste and poisoned water int our aquifers. Good luck finding safe water to drink when tap water catches fire.

Ever been to a frack site Zippy? Any idea of what really happens? Any idea of how much environmental control there is in a frack job? Not what you have been told by idiots but from actual experience.
 

Danbones

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The sign here went from "The world cleanest water!"
to "The world's best tasting water."
To the realization that if you put your dump on the water supply your main employers, who bottle pop and possibly beer
will f the hell right off with half the towns jobs
the other half of the jobs will leave when one of the main polluters of the water supply goes Teets up
then everyone or their brother gets cancer

The water here tastes like sh!t now
every filter known to man is the way to go these days

PS
oh yeah they are still trying to put dumps on ontarios last remaining fresh water aquafers
Frakkin stooopid f-tards

"The proposed location is above the Alliston aquifer. The aquifer stretches from Georgian Bay to the Oak Ridges Moraine, and allegedly has some of the purest water on earth,...
....and from the general distrust of municipal servants after the Pauze landfill incident. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Simcoe_Landfill_(Site_41)
 
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PoliticalNick

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From this article...
“After numerous rounds of testing by both the state of Wyoming and EPA, there is no evidence that the water quality in domestic wells in the Pavillion Field has changed as a result of oil and gas operations; no oil and gas constituents were found to exceed drinking water standards in any samples taken,”
From this one....
"We did not find evidence that these mechanisms [of possible contamination] have led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States,"
The first line of this article...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published their long-awaited draft fracking drinking water study and concluded: fracking has had no widespread impact on drinking water.
This one just says 1 plant wasn't cleaning the fluid correctly but they have since agreed to make upgrades to effectively fix the issue. Oh my, they are going to fix it...the horror!
Etc., etc., etc.... blow it out your ear, Politicaldick.
Got anything that isn't from a wingnut crew? Got anything in the way of experienced people or will you continue to just use a bunch of leftards making assumptions?

I could explain how it really works and that every drop of fluid pumped down MUST be flowed back out. I could take you on site and show you we do not store anything in unlined pits in Canada. I could take you by some of the treatment facilities where you can drink straight from the outflow because it is treated so well. I could do all of that but you still wouldn't believe anything. Of course I probably couldn't do any of that becuase you most likely wouldn't go near a hard days work choosing instead to sit comfortably at home on your computer living a nice life that runs on oil and gas.
 

Danbones

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looked under the gulf of mexico lately?

"In April 2010, as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history stained beaches and plastered birds with thick goo, something totally unexpected was happening under the surface of the Gulf of Mexico (map).

Out of the public eye, a mass of ocean plants, creatures, and other detritus bigger than the state of Connecticut was speeding oil to the seafloor in "shockingly large" amounts—likely millions of gallons, according to David Hollander, a chemical oceanographer at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. (See pictures from the oil spill in National Geographic magazine.)"
Why Did ?Shocking' Amounts of BP Oil Fall to the Seafloor?

It's not if something will go wrong
It's when

"Sometimes the water that returns to the surface after a frack gets spilled, such as when 2.9m gallons spilled from a broken pipeline in North Dakota and “impacted surface and groundwater”, in the largest volume spill recorded by the EPA. Since the state’s shale boom took off around 2006, 18m gallons of oil and toxic wastewater have been spilled between January 2006 to October 2014, a New York Times investigation found."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/19/why-is-fracking-bad-google-answer

Its great in someone else's yard
 

Danbones

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Any percent of mounting degradation in a fish bowl is ultimately non survival

That's not true about the pipe lines though Cliffy
some go through white neighborhoods in Iran, Syria, libya, and Afghanistan, and I think even the Balkans.

no green thumb for you...
lol