{"id":11888,"date":"2021-05-24T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=11888"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:07:46","slug":"native-sun-news-today-pipeline-operator-defies-shutdown-order-and-tribal-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/05\/24\/native-sun-news-today-pipeline-operator-defies-shutdown-order-and-tribal-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Pipeline operator defies shutdown order and tribal opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/553115449?title=0&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Honor The Earth: <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/553115449\"> Shut Down Line 5<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption> \r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Ousted oil pipeline operators irk Indians, defy permit withdrawals  <\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Monday, May 24, 2021<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Talli Nauman<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-website\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nWASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 On May 13, the U.S. Circuit Court here denied Dakota Access Pipeline\u2019s request for approval to keep its permit while the oil company appeals a ruling that tribes secured cancelling it. Meanwhile, other pipeline operators also faced permit challenges.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe DAPL ruling, handed down January  26, reaffirms a lower court finding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit for the pipeline to cross the Missouri River was illegal and must be vacated, at least until the conclusion of an environmental impact statement to determine viability. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Oglala, and Yankton Sioux tribes &#8212; in litigation for five years \u2013 obtained the court mandate for the environmental review only after the pipeline construction finished and operation commenced. Throughout the legal battle, the courts have rejected or overturned tribal pleas for injunctions to prevent deliveries of crude across the river until the review is done. So the oil still flows. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThe route cuts across unceded treaty rights territory and through the Oahe Reservoir, just upstream from the tribes\u2019 drinking water intakes.\r\n<p><\/p><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\n \u201cWe are gravely concerned about the continued operation of this pipeline, which poses an unacceptable risk to our sovereign nation,\u201d Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chair Mike Faith reiterated to media in April.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nPermit cancellation means DAPL is operating illegally, according to the tribe\u2019s attorneys at EarthJustice.  \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nIn that light, the pipeline company told the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on April 29 that it intends to seek a Supreme Court review of the ruling. The judges\u2019 May response was to deny the company\u2019s request for a stay of the decision to cancel.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAnother <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwf.org\/Latest-News\/Press-Releases\/2021\/05-11-21-Line-5-Action\">oil pipeline that is operating illegally<\/a> across a major public water body is Enbridge Energy Inc.\u2019s Line 5 beneath the Great Lakes\u2019 Straits of Mackinac, according to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In November, she revoked its state easement there and ordered Enbridge to <a href=\"https:\/\/earthjustice.org\/brief\/2021\/oil-giant-enbridge-defies-line-5-pipeline-shutdown-order-faces-profit-seizures\">cease operations by May 12<\/a>.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=row>\r\n<div class=col-7>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"936\" data-attachment-id=\"11899\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/05\/24\/native-sun-news-today-pipeline-operator-defies-shutdown-order-and-tribal-opposition\/shutdownline5-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/24\/shutdownline5.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"495,936\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"shutdownline5\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Gathering on the Michigan banks of the Mackinac Straits in support of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s cease-operations order, water protectors made prayers, music, and presentations for \u201ceviction\u201d of Enbridge Energy Inc.\u2019s Line 5 from tribal treaty rights territory in the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes boundary waters. Photo  courtesy Kaesha Baloch for Honor the Earth&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/24\/shutdownline5.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/24\/shutdownline5.jpg\" alt=\"shutdownline5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11899\" \/>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"col-5 align-self-end\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">\r\nGathering on the Michigan banks of the Mackinac Straits in support of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer\u2019s cease-operations order, water protectors made prayers, music, and presentations for \u201ceviction\u201d of Enbridge Energy Inc.\u2019s Line 5 from tribal treaty rights territory in the U.S.-Canada Great Lakes boundary waters. Photo  courtesy Kaesha Baloch for Honor the Earth<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe company did not comply. It maintains the State of Michigan lacks the authority to make the call. The dispute remains in federal court, where the Bay Mills Indian Community has filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting remand to state court.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nOn May 10, Bay Mills Indian Community\u2019s Executive Council passed a resolution that <a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/24\/baymills051121.pdf\">banishes Line 5 from its reservation<\/a>, as well as from the lands and waters of its ceded 1836 Treaty territory &#8212; including the Straits of Mackinac. The treaty acknowledged community\u2019s infinite right to fish, hunt, and gather in the ceded territory the covering channel between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nBanishment is a traditional, historical, and customary form of tribal law that has existed since time immemorial and is only exercised by the tribe when egregious acts and misconduct have harmed tribal citizens, treaty rights, territories, and resources, according to the Native American Rights Fund, NARF.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cEnbridge\u2019s continued harm to our treaty rights, our environment, our history, our citizens, and our culture, is a prime example of how banishment should be used,\u201d Bay Mills Executive Council President Whitney Gravelle told NARF. \u201cBanishment is a permanent and final action that is used to protect all that we hold dear.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/24\/baymills051121.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"on\">baymills051121<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nAs part of the banishment resolution, the council requested any regulatory bodies with oversight authority to enforce it. The agencies involved include the Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, the State of Michigan, and the United States.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\u201cThe pipeline segment beneath the straits has thankfully not burst,\u201d Gravelle observed. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\nHowever, in 1999, the pipeline leaked 226,000 gallons of crude and natural gas liquid, forcing 500 residents to evacuate, she recalled. Line 5 has spilled 33 times since 1968, leaking over 1.1 million gallons of oil, according to records. Gravelle hinted that some additional spills may not have been documented.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"card mb-3\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native sun news today\"\/>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <h5 class=\"card-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS TODAY<\/a><\/h5>\r\n        <p>\r\n           Support Native media!\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/ousted-oil-pipeline-operators-irk-indians-defy-permit-withdrawals\/\">Ousted oil pipeline operators irk Indians, defy permit withdrawals<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativesunnews.today<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nsweekly\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nsweekly<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/p>  \r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>Contact Talli Nauman at talli.nauman@gmail.net<\/em><HR>\r\n<P><\/p>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/24\/shutdownline5-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"shutdownline5\" class=\"invisible\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota to Line 5 in Michigan, pipeline operators continue to skirt the law.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11898,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,20,13,1,14],"tags":[624,600,708,83,159,284,1590,72,1589,1591,1592,523,749,8,2,302,97,591,754,154,750,153,1588,1447,753],"class_list":["post-11888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-bay-mills","tag-cheyenne-river-sioux","tag-dakota-access-pipeline","tag-dc-circuit","tag-eis","tag-energy","tag-grand-traverse","tag-judiciary","tag-line-5","tag-little-river","tag-little-traverse","tag-michigan","tag-mike-faith","tag-narf","tag-native-sun-news-today","tag-north-dakota","tag-oglala-sioux","tag-soo-tribe","tag-standing-rock-sioux","tag-treaties","tag-usace","tag-water","tag-whitney-gravele","tag-whitney-gravelle","tag-yankton-sioux","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-35K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/24\/shutdownline5-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}