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-3 posts tagged "Dakota Access Pipeline"
Martha Reilly | Monday, March 27, 2017
Junior Megan Uekert examined the interconnectedness between climate change and human rights violations in the most recent installment of the Justice Friday series at Saint Mary’s. (Editor’s Note: Megan Uekert is a former News writer for The Observer.) Uekert said she believes so firmly in the deterioration of the planet because she witnessed it firsthand. “My passion
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, January 25, 2017
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed to revive negotiations for the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline — a pipeline that has been of major interest to environmentalists in the fight for clean water because of damage to the environment and water supply that could happen in the case of an oil spill.
Megan Valley | Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Over Thanksgiving break, a group of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s students went to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota to join the “water protectors” — many of which are Native Americans who have been there since August — in their fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline being built near their land. On Nov.