Thursday, February 9, 2017

The First Complaint Ever About the Dakota Access Pipeline


President Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington D.C. 20500
9 February 2017 

Dear President Trump, 

ABC News reported yesterday that you stated that the Dakota Access Pipeline was not controversial and that you did not receive a single complaint about it.   

The pipeline runs next to Native American land.  It runs under the Missouri River.  It is close enough to both a sensitive aquifer and fragile prairieland that an environmental study was called for.  You issued an executive order to cancel that study.   

There have been protests for months because to build a pipeline in that location seems both insensitive and antagonistic toward the Native Americans who live there.   

Because this seems short-sighted, dangerous, and more like the actions of a bully than the actions of  the president of the United States, allow me to officially lodge a complaint.  Now you have at least one. 

Regards, 

Bill Boerman-Cornell

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