Right now and until November 13th you can make a difference in the fight against the climate crisis by submitting a personalized comment to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) is a risky oil pipeline that threatens drinking water and was built without adequate environmental analysis or Tribal consultation. We currently have a critical opportunity to shut it down once and for all!

Between now and November 13th, the Army Corps of Engineers has a comment period. On November 1 & 2nd the Corp of Engineers held public hearings in Bismarck, ND and heard demands to shut down DAPL. We need to join with Indigenous people and Stand with Standing Rock again and call on the Biden Administration to shut down DAPL.

The Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and grassroots water protectors have led the resistance against the dirty Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) since the beginning. Now, thanks to their continued resistance and leadership, thousands of us have a chance to go on the record with our support and submit official public comments with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers against this dirty oil pipeline.

To add your voice to the fight , please make a personal comment to:

[email protected]

Comments are due by 11:59pm EST on Monday, November 13

Talking Points:

Key Ask: President Biden must shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

DAPL is a nearly 1200 mile pipeline carrying 1.1 million barrels of crude oil per day extracted from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota, with much of the crude oil destined for export.

DAPL is one of the largest oil pipelines in the country with lifecycle emissions of 190.4 million tonnes of CO2e each year. DAPL is 21 times the annual emissions of the Willow drilling project in Alaska and equivalent to the emissions from more than 42.4 million gas-powered cars or 51 coal-fired power plants.

DAPL continuing to operate is a threat to drinking water for millions of people when it spills, 17 million people drink water from sources that are downstream of DAPL. A leak could quickly become a major environmental and public health catastrophe affecting huge swathes of the country. We need to shut it down before that happens!

The Army Corps must acknowledge that DAPL is simply incompatible with the Biden Administration’s climate reduction goals, and would lock us into decades of increased oil extraction and end-use burning. Transporting and burning all that oil has a major impact on global emissions impacting climate change.

We know ditching fossil fuels and transitioning to clean, renewable energy alternatives cannot wait – shutting down DAPL is an important step in the fight for a just and sustainable future.

DAPL was built without meaningful Tribal consultation with the Standing Rock Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes and to this day there has not been a “full and fair discussion of impacts” with the Tribes. That must include sharing with Tribal leadership the unredacted emergency and facility response plans for the pipeline. To date, the Army Corps has refused to provide this critical information.

DAPL jeopardizes Tribal hunting and fishing and water rights that are protected by the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. An oil spill would put at risk treaty protected waters in addition to jeopardizing public health, drinking water access, and safety.

This EIS was prepared by Big Oil -- a company that is a member of the American Petroleum Institute, Environmental Resources Management (ERM), was brought in by the Corps to produce the draft EIS. This is a clear conflict of interest leading to a biased result.

In solidarity,

Team 350 Chicago