Gisteren ontving ik van Food & Water Watch een petitie gericht aan banken, die de Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) financieren. Eén van die banken is ‘onze eigen’ ING. Deze oliepijpleiding gaat dwars door het leefgebied van het Sioux volk en over en door voor hen heilig grondgebied en rivier. Gezien alle rampen met pijpleidingen, waar de reguliere media ‘vreemd genoeg’ amper aandacht voor hebben, is het te belachelijk voor woorden, dat die pijpleiding juist daar aangelegd moet worden…….
Let wel: een dergelijk project wordt nooit gelegd in de buurt van ‘rijke steden’, of gebieden waar veel welgestelden wonen en als men dit toch probeert, is het plan binnen de kortste keren afgevoerd, waarna een alternatieve route wordt gekozen…….. Er staat nu een ban op deze Dakota Access Pipeline, dit door ingrijpen van de U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), maar Trump zal na zijn aantreden deze ban vrijwel onmiddellijk opheffen……..
Lees het artikel en de tekst van het volgende artikel en teken a.u.b. mee als u klant bent van ING (of klant van de andere genoemde banken), geef het door!
Who’s
Bankrolling the Dakota Access Pipeline?Tell
17 Big Banks to Stop Funding This Dirty Project.
If
you are thinking of moving your money to a bank not financing the
Dakota Access Pipeline, please note where you currently bank so that
we can have greater and more specific impact.
Petition
to the 17 banks on the project loan for the Dakota Access Pipeline
(Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, BayernLB, BBVA, BNP Paribas,
Citigroup, Crédit Agricole, DNB ASA, ICBC, ING,
Intesa Sanpaolo, Mizuho Bank, Natixis, SMBC, Société Générale,
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, TD Bank, Wells Fargo):
Stop
supporting the Dakota Access Pipeline and disregarding the inherent
sovereignty and rights of Indigenous peoples, including
self-determination, Free, Prior and Informed Consent and the rights
recognized and affirmed in the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties
with the Sioux.
The
vast majority of you have signed the Equator Principles, in which you
commit to resolve differences to the satisfaction of Indigenous
peoples. And, according to the United Nations Guiding Principles on
Business and Human Rights, you all have a responsibility to respect
human rights and remediate human rights violations linked to your
business operations.
The
militarized police actions against peaceful and unarmed water
protectors have been widely and publicly condemned, and may result in
a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into police misconduct and
civil rights abuses.
Continuing
to finance DAPL signals your approval of the use of militarized force
against those asserting their First Amendment rights and traditional
spiritual beliefs and practices, and disregard for Indigenous
responsibilities to protect people, lands and water.
We
demand that you discontinue DAPL loan disbursements until outstanding
issues with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Seven Council Fires
of the Great Sioux Nation – Oceti Sakowin are resolved, and Equator
Principle 5, which requires Free, Prior and Informed Consent from
Indigenous peoples, is upheld.
For
months the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Oceti Sakowin headmen and
elders, other Indigenous peoples and other water protectors and
allies have been under siege while peacefully and prayerfully
resisting the DAPL.
The
pipeline was approved without environmental reviews, adequate
assessment of cultural properties and sacred sites, or the Free,
Prior and Informed Consent of the Standing Rock Sioux affirmed in the
UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
In
addition to violating sovereign Indigenous rights and
responsibilities, continued pipeline construction and any spills pose
significant and direct threats to sacred sites and water supplies for
the Standing Rock Sioux, who live less than a mile downstream, and
threaten direct harm to the Missouri River, which provides drinking
water to millions of people.1
The
companies responsible for the pipeline are Energy Transfer Partners
(ETP) and Sunoco Logistics, who have a deplorable track record of
pipeline spills and total disregard for Tribal rights, land and
water.2
On
December 4, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers denied the easement
needed to finish drilling under the Missouri River, saying it was
necessary to produce an Environmental Impact Statement and analyze
alternatives.3 Yet ETP insists that the companies “fully expect
to complete construction of the pipeline without any additional
rerouting.”4
This
could lead to banks financing an illegal activity. ETP and Sunoco are
rushing to build a pipeline that is economically unnecessary today,
and will become a stranded asset as the world moves away from
climate-destroying fuels.
If
DAPL does not deliver oil by January 1, shipper contracts will expire
and the project will be in jeopardy.5 The Morton County
Sheriff’s Department has violently repressed the water protectors in
service of the corporate desperation to meet this timeline. Given
further project delays as a result of the December 4 decision, that
January deadline won’t be met.
The
17 banks financing the DAPL project have not yet disbursed all the
loan funds they’ve committed. These banks now face a clear
opportunity to reconsider further funding a project steeped in
controversy and demonstrating material loss.
Public
pressure is forcing DAPL’s lenders to confront the reality that
they are backing companies who are openly defying the rule of law,
undermining the regulatory process and authority of the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers and setting a dangerous precedent. Now these
lenders must take a stand.
It
is time for these banks to cut their losses and for us to turn up the
heat.
1. http://standwithstandingrock.net/history/
2. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pipeline-nativeamericans-safety-i-idUSKCN11T1UW
3. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/04/dakota-access-pipeline-permit-denied-standing-rock
4. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161204005090/en/
5. http://ieefa.org/ieefa-report-dakota-access-pipeline-driven-high-risk-financing-overbuilt-region-little-known-economic-weaknesses-controversial-project
Zie ook: ‘North-Dakota Pipeline, grote schande voor Obama en de VS…….‘
en: ‘ING liegt dat het niet onder contract DAPL uit kan………‘
en: ‘ING topman stelt dat ING zich niet kan terugtrekken uit DAPL….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘
en: ‘The Dakota Access Pipeline Is Already Leaking‘
en: ‘List of pipeline accidents in the United States in the 21st century‘ (stuitend!!)
en: ‘Grote banken overtreden eigen duurzaamheidsregels……..‘
en: ‘Canada’s Standing Rock….. Stop de Site C Dam!‘
en: ‘Regering Brits-Columbia liegt over olievervuiling…….‘ (zie ook de verdere links onder dat bericht)
Voor meer berichten n.a.v. het bovenstaande, klik op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor het label ‘USACE’.
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