20 million people get their drinking water from the Missouri River. In North Dakota the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline would be built beneath the river and the drinking water source for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Yesterday we spoke with Sarah Knopp a Santa Fe citizen activist who is there. Today I reached Jeffrey Haas. Haas has been in ND since last week. He updates us about the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers — and a second lawsuit by the pipeline operator against the protesters.