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Addressing Misconceptions About The Dakota Access Pipeline

Key Facts

• The Dakota Access Pipeline does not enter or cross the Standing Rock reservation.
• The entire Dakota Access Pipeline is buried underground.
• The Dakota Access Pipeline is not a threat to the Tribe’s water supply or cultural sites.
• Eight other pipelines cross Lake Oahe, including one that has safely operated for more than 30 years.
• The site where the Dakota Access Pipeline crosses the Missouri River is 70 miles from the new water supply inlet for the Standing Rock Sioux.
• The Dakota Access is one of the most technologically advanced and safest pipelines ever built. It is entirely underground and exceeds federal safety requirements.

here are a number of misconceptions and myths about the Dakota Access Pipeline Project. Unfortunately, a number of media outlets, bloggers, opinion writers, and social media accounts have spread a number of similar misconceptions. Here are the facts.

• The Dakota Access is one of the most technologically advanced and safest pipelines ever built. It is entirely underground and surpasses federal safety requirements.
• The pipeline does not encroach or cross any land owned by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
• The Dakota Access Pipeline is entirely underground and will cross under Lake Oahe at a minimum depth of 95 feet below the riverbed.
• The Dakota Access Pipeline does not endanger water; the Standing Rock Sioux water inlet by early 2017 will be moved to a location more than 70 miles away from the pipeline.
• The majority of protesters are not there to protect water, as they claim, but are actually extremists opposed to any and all use of fossil fuels.

Notably, by contrast, rail cars transporting crude oil from wells owned by Native American Tribes currently cross the Standing Rock Sioux reservation without objection.

Lake Oahe, the final portion of the pipeline’s path to be constructed is also home to eight pipelines.

Many of the protesters on-site are not Standing Rock Sioux, but outsiders with a different more extremist agenda that is simply opposed to the use of all fossil fuels. They have provoked multiple dangerous and criminal confrontations with law enforcement, and caused significant damage to property, which have led local agencies to ask for extra federal help.

DAPL Facts You Should Know

The Dakota Access pipeline is not built on Native American reservations..

99.98% of the pipeline is installed on privately owned property in North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois. The Dakota Access Pipeline does not enter the Standing Rock Sioux reservation at any point.

The Dakota Access pipeline is safe.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is built to survive the test of time, extreme weather, and natural disaster

The area of the Dakota Access pipeline in question has held eight other pipelines for over 30 years.

Eight other pipelines currently run below Lake Oahe. In fact, existing pipelines have safely transported natural gas beneath Lake Oahe for more than 30 years.

The builders of the Dakota Access pipeline adhered to all federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

The Dakota Access Pipeline was approved by regulatory agencies in all four states where the pipeline will operate and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Most of the protestors at the Dakota Access Pipeline are not Standing Rock Sioux.

The vast majority of the opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline – and the most vocal – comes not from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, but from several radical, well-funded groups that are opposed to all use of fossil fuel and who ignore the safety of the pipeline in order to further their membership and fund-raising efforts.

55 tribes held over 389 meetings while the DAPL route was planned.

In developing the route, the United States Army Corps of Engineers alone held 389 meetings with 55 tribes regarding the Dakota Access project. In addition, the U.S. Army Corps reached out to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe nearly a dozen times to discuss archaeological and other surveys conducted before finalizing the Dakota Access route. Share on

No Native American artifacts were disturbed during construction.

In a memo, dated September 22, 2016, Paul R. Picha, the Chief Archaeologist of the State Historical Society of North Dakota wrote: In conclusion, the cultural resources inventory and inspection conducted and reported herein yielded no evidence of infractions to or violations of North Dakota Century Code § 23..06-27 with respect to disturbance of human remains

The source of water for the Standing Rock Sioux is not near the Dakota Access Pipeline.

At no point does the Dakota Access Pipeline pass through the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, nor does it impact the Tribe’s water supply.  The water inlet for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will be 70 miles away by early 2017, when the tribe’s water intake moves to South Dakota. 

The Dakota Access Pipeline does not cross land owned by the Standing Rock Sioux.

No part of the pipeline will be installed on the Standing Rock reservation. The part of the project that needs the approval of the Army Corps of Engineers is a sliver of 1,000 feet of federal land – not Standing Rock land – that is part of its crossing beneath Lake Oahe 

 This part of the pipeline would be tunneled using state of the art Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) through soil nearly 100 feet below the bottom of the lake. This is about 20 times deeper than an existing pipeline that was installed beneath the same lake in 1982 and has operated safely for about 35 years.

In fact, eight pipelines currently pass below Lake Oahe, as well as one high-energy electrical system.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is an underground pipeline.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is an entirely underground pipeline. Only where there are pump stations or valves of testing stations is there any portion of the pipeline above ground.

The pipeline is buried nearly 4 feet deep in most areas and in all agricultural lands, two feet deeper than required by law. The pipeline will cross at least 95 feet, and at points, up to 115 feet, below the bottom of Lake Oahe.

I did not compile this information, I borrowed it to share from here: https://daplpipelinefacts.com/common-misconceptions/ 

I was torn, because I do have concern for the environment, so I decided to start reading more.

 It seems to me that every precaution has been taken as far as my concern goes.  The Job creation and economic gains that this pipeline will produce leaves no room for debate.  As far as these ridiculous people protesting everything they can just to cause discention in our country, I could care less about their uneducated dillusional opinions on pretty much everything, so this is no exception.  

Carry on President Trump...Carry On.