ONLINE: Sustainable Energy Seminar Series

Name: ONLINE: Sustainable Energy Seminar Series
Start: 2021-11-22T15:30:00
End: 2021-11-22T15:30:00

Nov 22, 2021 3:30 PM

November 19, 2021

1:51 PM

media release: Welcome back to a new semester of the Sustainable Energy Seminar Series! We hope you all had a good summer break and are ready to get back into the rhythm of the school year. Due to the uncertainty around COVID-19, this semester we will again be using the Zoom webinar platform for all presentations. You can register for all upcoming webinars in this series at the same time (or pick and choose which ones to register for) using this registration link:

https://uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/register/6016288767526/WN_lVu9D9Z4QUyBtYlSsn-I9g

Sessions will be recorded and will be shared to this seminar list andposted to the WEI website.

Nov. 22: The Standing Rock Sioux and the No Dakota Access Pipeline Movement

Leah Horowitz, assistant professor of environmental studies and civil society & community studies

Abstract:

The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, which stretches from south-central North Dakota to north-central South Dakota, is home to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST), a federally recognized U.S. tribe with a trust land base of 841,700 acres and an estimated enrollment of 15,568 members. Over half of North Dakota’s daily production currently flows through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a subterranean 1,172-mile pipeline owned by Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), which extends from North Dakota to southern Illinois. DAPL runs one-half mile from the Reservation’s boundary, within unceded Indian territory under Article 16 of the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). The SRST Tribal Council voiced opposition to the pipeline when ETP representatives visited the Tribe in September 2014, and continued communicating their opposition to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), charged with permitting the project. This presentation will provide historical context for, and detail the chronology of, the #NoDAPL movement led by SRST.