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Indigenous Environmental Network
Kandi Mossett is the Lead Organizer on the Extreme Energy & Just Transition Campaign for the Indigenous Environmental Network.
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Victory at Standing Rock as feds halt pipeline construction A victory — or not victory — in Standing Rock, North Dakota. Native American "water protectors" celebrate that the Army Corps of Engineers has denied an easement for the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, December 4, 2016. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Yesterday the voices of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe and other protesters at Standing Rock were raised in victory after the Army Corps of Engineers announced it would not permit completion of the Dakota Access pipeline. But last night, Energy Transfer Partners said it would resume construction anyway.
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