NO TO DAKOTA ACCESS

PIPELINE
#WATERISLIFE
BY: SOPHIA CATHERINE
REYES
WHAT IS
DAPL?
 DAPL PROJECT WILL BE $3.78 BILLION IN
COST

1,172 mile pipeline, 30

inches in diameter

The approved pipeline

would run from the
Bakken oil fields in
western North Dakota to
southern Illinois, crossing
beneath the Missouri and
Mississippi Rivers, as well
as part of Lake Oahe near
the
Standing Rock Indian Rese
rvation
.
WHY DO THEY WANT
TO BUILD IT?
PROS
Creates 8,000 to 12,000 jobs
during construction
Will enable to make US oil
cheaper and more accessible
Estimated $55 million annually
in property taxes
WHY DO PEOPLE
PROTEST?
CONS
The Dakota Access Pipeline threatens the
water supply of the Standing Rock Sioux
and millions of people downstream.
The Dakota Access Pipeline is being built
on sacred land guaranteed to the Oceti
Sakowin (Sioux) by treaty.
The Dakota Access Pipeline will worsen
climate change by pumping hundreds of
thousands of gallons of shale oil to
market daily.
The Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe filed a complaint in
federal court alleging
that "the construction
and operation of the
pipeline ... threatens the
Tribe's environmental
and economic well-
being, and would
damage and destroy
sites of great historic,
religious, and cultural