CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Dakota Access Pipeline, a part of the Bakken pipeline project, is a 1, 172-mile-long (1, 886 km) underground oil pipeline in the United States. The pipeline was planned by Dakota Access, LLC, a subsidiary of a Dallas, Texas corporation named Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Standing Rock Sioux oppose the construction of the pipeline on the grounds that an oil spill would threaten their water supply and cultural resources.

Detailed explanation-3: -Protect Protesters’ Rights The controversial pipeline could destroy ancestral burial grounds and poison the water supply for a sovereign nation-as well as millions of Americans downstream who rely on the Missouri River. All eyes were on Standing Rock late last year as unwarranted armored vehicles rolled in.

Detailed explanation-4: -The case against the Dakota Access Pipeline can best be broken down into three categories: the cost, the environmental impact, and its consequences for native people.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Standing Rock Sioux, other tribes, and environmental groups oppose the pipeline because of the greenhouse gas emissions from oil that it carries, and concerns that a spill would contaminate state and tribal drinking water.