The Pros And Cons Of The Dakota Access Pipeline

Native Americans have a right to live on their own reservations. A major pipeline is about to made through their reservation. I know that the people are furious with this. The pipeline would destroy historic sites. I have proposed a solution to this problem.

Despite Donald Trump being elected for president this year, one of his negative intentions was to reopen the project in North Dakota. Unfortunately, the United States Army Corps of Engineers has been granted to complete Dakota Access Pipeline despite the protest of environmentalist and Native Americans. The ideology of North Dakota Access Pipeline is it would become an “economic boon”, and would employ of thousands of jobs. The pipeline shall stretch 1,172 miles through four states such as North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and southern Illinois. Too keep in mind, 470,000 barrels of crude oil would be moved within one day.

Disregarding some environmental factors related to the Keystone XL pipeline, I believe that it will do great justice to both Canada and the United States of America. This pipeline will create jobs, increase the economy, and strengthen American and Canadian energy security. Currently Canadian unemployment rate has increased vastly from March 2014 to 7.1% and the American rate has increased to 5.5%. By initiating this pipeline project, more than 42,000 direct and indirect jobs will be created and it will also add an additional 1.8 million employment in the US over the next 22 years. As the number of jobs increase, the economy will benefit from this highly because of taxes.

Because of the United States dependency on oil, having the pipeline would help fulfill its oil-hungry needs. In addition, it comes from an ally and neighbor, Canada, rather than more turbulent places like the Middle East. This will cause an increase in national security because we won’t be as dependent on OPEC if we have another way to get oil. One of the arguments that the people who want the pipeline is that it will decrease gasoline prices. However, that isn’t true.

As The Assembly of The First Nations Regional Chief for British Columbia, I say that the Enbridge Pipeline is a risk to the environment, the ecosystems, the health and the safety to the First Nations and the citizens of British Columbia. We First Nations have had 21,000 people sign off on the online petition “hold the wall”. The pipeline route will interfere homes of where six First Nations live and their willing to put their lives on hold to fight against the Enbridge Pipeline.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a underground oil pipeline. Part of the pipeline is on Native American territory. To get access to the pipeline, burial grounds of the Natives Americans would have to be annihilated, going against the tradition of Native American culture. In the article,”

President Biden believed the pipeline to be a threat to the climate and environment. Originally when the channel was being built, it was mapped out to go through the Sand Hills region of Nebraska, which wasn’t a good idea, since that area has low groundwater. The low groundwater could have led to damaging the drinking water. The Keystone pipeline had a great possibility of transporting 830,000 barrels of oil per day from Canada.

The sententious construction of the pipeline will help…”create thousands of jobs”(DAPL:top pros and cons). By implying more jobs, it allows many people to have the opportunity to have a workplace in which they can earn the money to pay off and bills presented. Even if the pipeline can produce more jobs, but the pipeline would not cause any major incidents. Once the Dakota Access Pipeline is bonded into place, workers wondered if there, shall be a decrease in ant incidents than other major pipeline that recently resulted in spillages. The DAPL both pros and cons, states that there is a new way of “oil freight ages…to major refining markets in a more productive way towards the environment.”

We must take an alternative route to ensure that the indigenous tribes of our country stay sacred. Native people are non materialistic. They are rich in culture and morality. Native Americans use very little energy and are eco friendly. A pipeline would separate the Sioux tribe, potentially damage the casino industry, our source of entertainment and many tribes source of income.

The American society should strive to obtain higher standards of respect for the majority as well as the minority communities. There are not many people who are aware about the controversy and issues that the use of reclaimed water at the Snowbowl has created. Yet this disrespect to Indigenous belief has a long path in American history and Native American people. Indians were stripped of their land in 1829 because of the Homestead Act, which granted white people the right to claim up to 160 acres of land as their own. Even as the Constitution states that “all men are created equal”, Native Americans have faced discrimination, oppression, and racism due to their culture and skin color.

“ A Black Snake will come from the North, Everything it touches it will slowly kill, It will poison every river.” - Sioux Prophecy. The Dakota Access Pipeline can create more jobs and will stop the United States from buying foreign oil. These are good value to push this forward but the list of Pros is short then the list of Cons.

“Benefits of Governmental Compromise Regarding the Dakota Access Pipeline” Nations all have unique governments and differences necessary for demonstrating successful leadership. Every country needs different assistance from their leadership, such as Rio requiring infrastructure or Somalia lacking political power. Some governments concern themselves with their politicians’ well-being more so than the people they lead, which creates a relevant problem in America. The United States Government can easily forget about Native American Reservations, or even ignore the people living on them. Recently, the United States Army Corps of Engineers has worked on the Dakota Access Pipeline project, which would cross over Native American ancestral lands,

During the early 19th century, the United States of America was still growing into the mighty nation we know today. American pioneers set westward towards the Pacific ocean in search of new, fertile land. Unfortunately, as a result of this expansion, the native American population, which once covered the entire continent continued to be pushed into smaller and smaller areas. White Americans believed the diminishing population was simply an unavoidable result of the “Manifest Destiny”, an inevitable expansion of American land. This ideology was the cause of years of mistreatment of the nonwhites, especially Native Americans.

Just like dogs, it is the White man’s burden to train the natives, to educate the natives, to show them right from wrong

TAPS transports 17% of the United State’s domestic petroleum. If the pipeline were to stop, “A loss of that production would increase prices by at least 10 to 16 percent” (Balan). This is very important, as the majority of the American population is in constant need of these resources. A shift this dramatic in the economy would lead to outrage and possible changes in economic inflation. All in all, the Trans Alaska pipeline has provided for a great number of people and has not failed to let them down.