In order to complete the pipeline Dakota Access has undertaken injurious business practices to meet certain deadlines. When construction undertook in sacred tribal lands …show more content…
Many concerns of the pipeline include a possible rupture that can pollute the Missouri River and contaminate water sources in the state. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe acknowledge this concern and are protestesting their disdain of this possibility. Moreover, the protesters are being confronted with private security and state authorities to suppress them. However, it is within their first amendment right, from the Bill of Rights, to oppose what they deemed more harmful than good. Altogether, The construction has not only begun to destroy their tribal burial mounds but has a potential to create a enormous environmental disaster that protesters are trying to avoid.
As can be seen the Dakota Access Pipeline is a project that is costing more than what its worth with shady business practices along the environmental and culturally devastating effects that have been forthcoming. This project is still long ways from completion yet have been causing severe problems that need to be addressed before the project can continue any