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This pipe is part of the Keystone I pipeline. Note the "Made in India" label on the pipe. This photo is of pipe near Yankton, South Dakota and was taken in July 2009.
Advertising: Keystone Shoes: Tradewind Shopping Center: 7/10/69 - 9/3/69
Photograph taken by Jim Slaughter.
I spent the 4-6 of the month with my family and family friend in Dillon, Colorado at Keystone Resort for a short vacation! We skied and hung out in the hot tub in our condo for a couple of days. It was a beautiful, nice break from Kansas.
This is the largest of my Keystone of Boston houses. I also have one similar without the side addition.
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
Congratulations to Northern Lebanon FFA Fredericksburg, Lebanon Co. on their Keystone recipients, Christian Bomgardner, Trenton Bomgardner, Larissa Ealy, Erica Fuhrman, Hannah Heagy, Austin Heilinger, Devin Hostetter, Abigail Kessler, Delaney Leibensperger, Carrigan Mann, Marinna Mazzoca, Cameron Seiger, Emily Smith, Sydnie Tbias, and Shayla Weaver. Pictured with the recipients are Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera and Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding.
Protestors outside of Senator Tom Carper's office in Wilmington, DE on Thursday November 17th, 2014.
I spent the 4-6 of the month with my family and family friend in Dillon, Colorado at Keystone Resort for a short vacation! We skied and hung out in the hot tub in our condo for a couple of days. It was a beautiful, nice break from Kansas.
After a bit of an untended hiatus, I finally got around to posting another entry to the Miscellany.
My trip to Grasslands National Park back in May was extremely inspiring and I thought I'd share of the insights from that. You can read all about it here: wp.me/p10non-aD
A cooper is a barrel maker. These beautiful barrels were made of Pennsylvania Oak at Keystone Cooperage, and currently contain wine at Cave Ridge Vineyard.
Tunnel Keystone - - a tunnel UNDER railroad lines.
These are the railroad lines which travel East & West around the World Famous Horseshoe Curve, near Altoona, PA.
A flower relief decorates the keystone of this arch. Part of a thick wooden gate can be seen below the keystone. (File: RPOP-2007-08-2356)
Catalog #: 00067828
Manufacturer: Keystone
Designation:
Official Nickname: Pathfinder
Notes:
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
Danfort
Shingles - Dual Black Dimensional/Architectural
Metal Roof - Dark Bronze
Brick - Silas Lucas - Painted SW522-2 Edelweiss
Siding - Glacier White
Trim - Glacier White
Shutters & Front Door - Black
Michael Raso loads and tests the Keystone A7 16mm movie camera. Originally introduced in the mid to late 1930s, many of these sturdy cameras are still in use today. Camera takes double perforated 16mm film which can be found at filmphotographystore.com/collections/movie-film/double-pe...
Video: youtu.be/PsAdRbwLKGE
Protestors outside of Senator Tom Carper's office in Wilmington, DE on Thursday November 17th, 2014.
I spent the 4-6 of the month with my family and family friend in Dillon, Colorado at Keystone Resort for a short vacation! We skied and hung out in the hot tub in our condo for a couple of days. It was a beautiful, nice break from Kansas.