{"id":13181,"date":"2021-06-22T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2021-06-22T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:53:36","slug":"native-sun-news-today-indian-country-rejoices-with-demise-of-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/06\/22\/native-sun-news-today-indian-country-rejoices-with-demise-of-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Indian Country rejoices with demise of Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"\"'Death<\/a>
Pipeline fighter Jasilyn Charger, sentenced June 9, 2021, for the act of civil disobedience of locking herself to a Keystone XL pump station in treaty-protected Lakota homelands, heard the news that same day of the megaproject\u2019s demise and declared, \u201cDeath to KXL.\u201d Photo courtesy Jasilyn Charger and Mni Un Wiconi<\/figcaption>\r\n
The death of the \u2018Zombie Pipeline\u2019<\/div>\r\n
Indian Country rejoices<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, June 22, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Talli Nauman<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nSPEARFISH – Asking tolerance for starting this news story in first-person, I just couldn\u2019t resist when I received a letter June 10 saying, \u201cTalli Nauman, the Keystone XL Pipeline has been officially terminated!\u201d \r\n

<\/p>\r\nI have been at the helm of the media coverage on the Native-led resistance to this megaproject<\/a>, its predecessor Keystone I, and the proliferation of oil pipeline undertakings since then. So, I know that this particular one has garnered a reputation in Indian country as the \u201cZombie Pipeline\u201d.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nCould it really be dead this time, after so many reversals of permit status over the decade that the Canadian TC Energy Corp. has sought to complete it across 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty territory?\r\n

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\u2018It\u2019s a great day for Mother Earth\u2019: It took over 10 years and three presidential administrations but tribes and Native activists can finally claim victory over the Keystone XL Pipeline. #NoKXL https:\/\/t.co\/3sJysCVUFy<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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<\/P>\r\nSure enough: An announcement from corporate headquarters June 9 stated, \u201cThe company confirmed today that after a comprehensive review of its options, and in consultation with its partner, the Government of Alberta, it has terminated the Keystone XL Pipeline Project.\u201d\r\n

<\/p>\r\nAll 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty tribes, as well as the National Congress of American Indians, are on record in opposition to KXL. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nTC Energy Corp., previously TransCanada Corp., gave up the ghost one-half year after U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s inaugural day revocation of KXL\u2019s presidential permit. During that sixth-month period, the company continued seeking local easements. \r\n

<\/p>\r\nNative pipeline fighters remained on alert, monitoring activity at supply and construction facilities to prevent permit violations along the soon not-to-be-built pipeline section from Canada through Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska.\r\n

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The fight against #KXL is not completely over. There are water protectors who still face charges for standing against the dirty tar sands pipeline. Donate what you can to Oscar High Elk’s legal fund. https:\/\/t.co\/AQ9PTozwLK https:\/\/t.co\/NlNBCTaz7M<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t

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<\/P>\r\nThe company will \u201ccontinue to coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups to meet its environmental and regulatory commitments and ensure a safe termination of and exit from the project,\u201d TC Energy Corp. promised in its announcement.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThat same day, a judge for Haakon County in Philip sentenced Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member Jasilyn Charger, 25, for locking herself to a KXL pump station in a November 21 act of civil disobedience to delay construction. Charger will serve six months\u2019 probation and pay a fine for trespassing on her treaty land.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cIt hurt a lot to be talked to like I had no right to this land and that what I did was wrong,\u201d Charger said of the sentencing. \u201cThe courts will never be on our side as long as our treaty rights are not recognized.\u201d She thanked her moral supporters and remarked to her followers, \u201cToday we celebrate a death of a black snake, KXL.\u201d\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe judge postponed sentencing for Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member Oscar High Elk, 30, until July 7 on charges stemming from police activity December 23 at the Rootz Camp he co-founded on the KXL route. High Elk raised $10,000 cash bond for his release from Haakon County Jail on Jan. 6. He faces one first-offense felony charge, as well as 11 misdemeanor claims, which could result in a prison sentence of nearly two dozen years and fines up to $48,000.\r\n

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