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The Dakota Access Pipeline, An Environmental Demise

Oil production and financial incentive appear to exploit human rights and environmental preservation.

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The call for action is a cry for help that echoes form the heart of many environmental and cultural crises currently taking place on a global spectrum. Currently in the U.S. it is the Dakota Access Pipeline – a crude oil production plan – that is the force that stokes the embers to the fire of environmental crises and concern in the nation – a force that spreads like a wildfire – stretching to great lengths throughout the world.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a proposed production that will be built through the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's in North Dakota. However, the 1,172-mile pipeline will expand to even great length. The pipeline will stretch from the oil-rich Bakken Formation, which is a grand underground oil deposit where both Montana and North Dakota bridge together with the borders of Canada and will stretch into other states such as South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois.

The Sioux Tribe may be the leading force that takes on the authoritative role in the mission to hinder the progress of the Dakota Access Pipeline. However, the efforts and goals to diminish the progress of the oil industrialization are not bound solely to the tribe. The mission against the Dakota Access Pipeline are intentions that the tribe encourages for others to jump on the bandwagon to protect mother earth, and all that she bares – water being one of the main reasons many Dakota Access Pipeline protestors are fighting against the production.

Change in regards to hindering the Dakota Access Pipeline just may be conceivable as the Sioux Tribe, environmental activists and humanitarians alike are coming together as one through the same intention – stop the Dakota access pipeline before it is to late.

While the oil company attempts to continue progress on the production of the pipeline, production continues to be hindered by pipeline oppositionists. According to CNN, and the Energy Transfer Partners, the pros to the pipeline are extremely beneficial. The pipeline would create an economic boom. The pipeline has the magnitude to substantially decrease the nations dependability on foreign countries for oil and more. However is industrial advancement really worth demolishing and obliterating burial sites, prayer sites and culturally significant artifacts that are cherished by the Sioux Tribe? The persistent efforts to complement the Dakota Access Pipeline reflect just that – to achieve industrial advance mint over cultural preservation.

Starlets are also individuals that are implementing their fame and influential authority to good use – also baking up the efforts against the Dakota Access Pipeline. Celebrities such as Ben Affleck, Ray Fisher, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa and Ezra Miller, recently prompted and vouched their alliance with a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe campaign known as Rezpect Our Water. The campaign is one in which disproves the construction of the Dakota Access Pipelinethrough the Missouri and Cannon Ball River. The campaign aims to bring aware the serious threat that the oil production will have on both bodies of water and the entry of the land. Both the campaign and the varying celebrities voice the fretfulness to get involved and to ban together as one to mother, earth, the water and the land for future generations to come.

The Dakota Access Pipeline are among one environmental concerns the planet is currently faced with. if the earth is to be preserved for future and resources are to remain prevalent the human race must act now together as one. Change is possible and is more than just a hope, it can be a reality.

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