Gracy Claymore remembers the moment the message flashed across her laptop screen.
On the morning of Aug. 3, a Texas company called
Energy Transfer Partners sent her and all members of the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe a 48-hour construction notice on the controversial Dakota
Access Pipeline — a 1,170-mile oil conduit slated to run from North
Dakota to Illinois.
Part of the pipeline would traverse the Sioux's
sacred, ancestral lands and run under the Missouri River, the tribe's
sole water source. The pipeline would run just a half-mile from the
Standing Rock reservation, which straddles the North and South Dakota
border.
For Claymore, a 19-year-old student activist who
along with dozens of her peers had protested the pipeline for months,
warning against "the potential catastrophic environmental damage" an oil
spill would bring for their people, it was now the time for action.
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Source: NBC News
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