10 Sec. Action: #WaterIsLife Stop The Devastation Of The Sioux Tribe's Standing Rock Reservation

Email and Tweet your Federal Senators and President Obama. We need to hold our elected officials accountable on this issue of the Dakota Access Pipeline. We need to stand united and support the Sioux's Reservation at Standing Rock.

Protect our shared sacred waters and lands by uniting to repeal the approval of this dangerous fracked oil pipeline through the Midwest! #WaterIsLife

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Unite Against the Dakota Access Pipeline! (#NoDAPL) Use the Action Tools Below to Protect our Shared Waters and Sacred Lands from this dangerous fracked oil pipeline! #WaterIsLife

Subject:

Unite Against The North Dakota Oil Pipeline (DAPL)

Dear Official,

I am deeply concerned by the Army Corps of Engineers’ approval of the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), the impacts of which have been highlighted by the growing public opposition to this project.

The Dakota Access pipeline project would carry 450,000 barrels of fracked oil every day through 1,168 miles across North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. The pipeline would cut through communities, farms, sensitive natural areas, wildlife habitat, and tribal lands like the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's ancestral lands that are within half a mile of its current reservation.

Not only would the Dakota Access pipeline threaten sacred sites and culturally important landscapes, it would also cross under the Missouri River just upstream of the Tribe's drinking water supply, where a spill would constitute an existential threat to the Tribe's culture and way of life. It's clear that the pipeline poses significant threats to the environment, public health, and tribal and human rights.

The permits for the Dakota Access pipeline project were granted using the Army Corps' controversial Nationwide Permit 12, in yet another example of an oil pipeline being permitted without adequate public engagement or sufficient environmental review. The practice of "segmenting" a project under Nationwide Permit 12 allows the Corps to consider a single oil or gas pipeline as thousands of "single and complete" projects -- avoiding the environmental review and public input required by numerous environmental laws and agreements with tribes.

I urge your administration to direct the Corps to repeal the permits for the Dakota Access pipeline until formal tribal consultation and environmental reviews are properly and adequately conducted. I also urge the administration to revoke Nationwide Permit 12 and resume its prior practice of fully evaluating the environmental impacts of individual fossil fuel pipelines. In the meantime, construction on this project should not be allowed to continue.

Thank you for your consideration of this important matter.

Regards, Your Name

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