As Dakota Celebrates, Trump Advisors Propose Privatizing Oil-Rich Indian Reservations

With celebrations continuing at the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest (following the “Monumental victory” following the Obama administration’s decision not to grant the construction permit), it appears the Trump administration has very different ideas.
Having confirmed Trump’s support for the pipeline (not to do with his investments), Reuters reports a Trump advisory group proposes the politically explosive idea of putting oil-rich Indian reservation lands into provate ownership.
As we noted last night, after months of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota, among others, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers today effectively shut down the project by refusing to approve the last remaining permit required to complete a segment running under Lake Oahe. Per Reuters, the permit denial was heavily celebrated by protesters in Cannon Ball, North Dakota but means that Energy Transfer Partners will have to go back to the drawing board to identify a new route for the last segment of the 1,172 mile pipeline that is largely already complete.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 5, 2016.