Indigenous Environmental Network has united tribes around the US to oppose environmentally dangerous projects, with support from other ethnic groups too.

If the Dakota Access pipeline is built, it would produce 100 million tons of CO₂ emissions per year.

The very efficiency of the pipeline would make ending the oil extraction very difficult, as the owners would do just about anything to recover their investment. Our government lacks the courage to tell a company, "We are going to shut you down to stop your pollution."