What will Trump’s shiny new police state do about this?
by Gaius Publius
Recently you read here about Trump’s shiny new police state.
Wonder what he’ll do when this starts back up. Brad Johnson at Hill Heat:
Army Corps Grants Expedited Dakota Access Pipeline Easement
Cancelling an ongoing environmental review, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given Congress 24 hours notice of its decision to grant an easement for the construction of the final leg of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. The action was directed by one of President Donald Trump’s first presidential memoranda.
In the waning days of the Obama administration, after global pressure built from sustained opposition by Native American tribes to the Bakken shale pipeline in North Dakota, the Army announced it would begin a new environmental impact statement review of the project. Trump’s presidential memorandum of January 24th directed the Army Corps to expedite the approval process for the pipeline by any legal means necessary. In memos issued by Douglas W. Lamont, acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, the corps terminated the environmental impact statement process and foreshortened the Congressional notification period from two weeks to one day.
Final construction on the pipeline could thus begin as early as tomorrow.
In other news, Arctic temperatures are nearing 50 degrees above normal, a massive crack is spreading across one of the major Antarctic ice shelves, and a massive tornado hit New Orleans.
Here’s what that confrontation looked like before Trump got his hands on the wheel:
I’ve said it many times — Trump will start a “rolling civil war.” Count on it.
Also, count it as opportunity, as he starts to collapse in on himself. Fortress White House? Could happen very soon.
P.S. If you want to up the ante against Trump and DAPL, CalPERS is voting on DAPL divestment on Monday. You could help them decide what to do by clicking here. Just a thought…
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