Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier to Meet with President Obama to Discuss Dakota Access Pipeline
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier in Washington after White House Tribal Nations Conference on September 26, 2016. Native News Online photo by Levi Rickert
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Published October 25, 2016
“I found out about the possibility to arrange a meeting with President Obama to discuss the current situation and I felt I had to fly to Los Angeles for the opportunity,” Chairman Frazier told Native News Online late Monday night.
The chairman will specifically address the need for an Environmental Impact Statement and the easement application that is currently pending before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He will also address the issue of protection of the pipeline company activities by out of state law enforcement agencies, potential civil rights violations and allegations of police brutality against peaceful water protectors.
“We love this land more than any oil company or politician ever could. The tribes will continue to work together to fight for the Great Sioux Nation,” said Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Chairman Harold Frazier. “We do not just own these lands…we are a part of them.”
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal member and attorney for the Tribe, Nicole Ducheneaux, explained the need for an Environmental Impact Statement saying, “A full environmental impact statement is needed on this project rather than just an environmental assessment. This project will undoubtedly have significant effects on the environment for generations to come. An undertaking of this risk and magnitude demands the level of in depth review and analysis that only an EIS can provide.”
The chairman continued to ask for prayers for the peaceful and prayerful water protectors watching over sacred water and sacred sites near Cannonball, North Dakota.
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We stand with you because you are standing with everyone in protection of all the waters from poisoning by the fossil fuel industry. Just last week waters in Pennsylvania were poisoned by a gasoline pipeline break. We all must wake up and realize that we all have to join you in this struggle. Water is Life.
The government agencies poison the water, and then tell you they are taking over water rights to protect the water! The head of Nestle thinks that the people don’t have a right to pure and free water. So they drain water from our lands, and process it, adding fluoride of course, and sell it to you for $1.00 a bottle, while Nestle pays $6 for over 500 gallons! They’ve gotten most of the water in the west redirected already. Now they are coming for the rest of it!