{"id":255,"date":"2017-02-02T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ccc\/?page_id=255"},"modified":"2017-07-18T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T05:22:40","slug":"trans-pecos-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ccc\/energy-domestic\/trans-pecos-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Protectors Against the Trans-Pecos Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roma Castellanos<\/h2>\n

The resistance at Standing Rock has caused ripple effects around the world (see Standing Rock<\/a>) .\u00a0 Just weeks after the week-long Port protest<\/a> here in Olympia, Washington, the Obama administration temporarily denied an easement permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline to drill under the Missouri River at sacred Lake Oahe.\u00a0 The resistance to fossil fuel development is growing quickly around the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Texas, where I was born and raised, the Society of Native Nations and the Big Bend Conservation Alliance are assembling a camp inspired by Oceti Sakowin, the Indigenous prayer camp at Standing Rock, to protect the border’s waterway, known as the Rio Grande, from the Trans-Pecos Pipeline (TPPL).\u00a0 The TPPL project is being led by Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the same company being opposed in North Dakota.\u00a0 This fight against another “Black Snake” takes place in the Chihuahuan Desert where a few of the 43 Texas ranchers to have their land threatened by eminent domain invited a coalition of Indigenous activists and environmentalists to set up a prayer and resistance camp.\u00a0 They call it Two Rivers, but the local Indigenous peoples refer to it as La Junta de los Rios (The Rivers Together), an allusion to the true nature of the Rio Grande.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpposition to Trans-Pecos escalated over the last two years. It started with local coalitions and landowners pressuring federal and state regulators, and challenging the use of eminent domain in courts. But tactics have shifted to mirror the example set by the Oceti Sakowin camp in North Dakota. Indigenous-led prayer ceremonies and lockdowns on machinery, all broadcast over social media, have stalled work in Texas and brought attention to the campaign. So far, police have arrested at least six people for attempting to stop construction”<\/em> (PBS Newshour<\/a>).<\/p>\n