Well this is going to get interesting

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6K Acres sold for $100

 

[DirtyMike]

6K Acres sold for $100

Even I could have afforded that. Darn it

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As of yesterday 5 million. Not saying that I think that's their full on game plan but talking it out with my buddy a high-end ivy league land lawyer that moved to North Dakota a few years ago because he likes ducks the donating and or preserving the land in some fashion is the obvious play. Just buying the land gains them little in the legal battle over what they already had. As far as legalities of giving it to a Native American tribe good luck fighting that one in court theoretically it was already deeded to them in 1868 in the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

As for them coming to town and pulling a BLM that would be literally a dream come true because like said and everyone on here knows that shit would not fly here. The second they start looting burning or trying to hurt people they're going to figure out very quickly that about every fourth person here in the city qualifies as a sniper by the average Americans viewpoint.

the battle in court will be focused on the sale of the land from the previous owners to the dapl. If it is the natives land, why is whitey heading back to flasher with his pockets full of crisp hundo's? I have lawyer friends as well so I'll have to drop that question on them.

 

[Wild and Free]

6K acres for 5 million = 833/acre, they stole it for that price, auction prices for range land that has been sold in Morton county just a couple miles from my house went for twice that last fall. Have not seen any prices this year though.

 

[Sum1]

I wouldn't mind taking a couple acres of that off their hands for that price. Sumina beech.

 

[Rowdie]

18 million is the number I heard tonight at the game, not sure if its right, but that's the rumor now.

 

[dean nelson]

6K acres for 5 million = 833/acre, they stole it for that price, auction prices for range land that has been sold in Morton county just a couple miles from my house went for twice that last fall. Have not seen any prices this year though.

7722 acres is its listed size.
http://www.landofdakota.com/P_details.asp?ID=120

As for why it may be illegal this covers some.

http://m.bismarcktribune.com/mobile/article_7e2b7f58-2114-5d55-806a-52129dc930f3.html

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The main thing mike is I'm not saying I know what there going to do. Just spitting out likely scenarios and the pros and cons for each. Doing some sort of donation to The Tribe and making that area wildlife area or protected holy site definitely gives them the best advantage in the purchase. Now the tribe may not give two shits and a fair bit of the far-left probably won't either but this would definitely steer a lot of people in the middle when they're being called big bad oil treating the poor natives bad once again. This sort of olive branch if delivered in the right way at the right time could definitely cause some of these waves to die down some. At this point with the government sitting there doing nothing and dapl now doing this the over all framework of how things are going to go has turned into one big god damn mess making near impossible to have a realistic clue on exactly were this shit show is heading.

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I wonder what's going on behind the seine because before today I've not seen dave archambault show any sort of flexibility of the pipeline crossing the river anywhere until I saw this line. Wonder if that the tribes and the government Escape Route where they can lose but still look like they won.


"I am not asking that you stop this pipeline, I’m asking that you do a full EIS [Environmental Impact Statement].”

 

[SDMF]

Oh they could have way more fun then that...that camp sits on their grazing rights and that ranch is a buffalo ranch. I would thoroughly enjoy watching one ton living bulldozers go flying through that camp.

That'd draw a bigger crowd than the Mandan Rodeo, they could sell an awful lot of tickets.

 

[Rowdie]

TEXARCANA GAZETTE


​BISMARCK, N.D.—The company developing the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline has purchased a portion of a historic North Dakota ranch where a violent protest occurred earlier this month due to what tribal officials said was construction crews destroying burial and cultural sites.Morton County records show Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners purchased 20 parcels of land on the Cannonball Ranch totaling more than 6,000 acres from David and Brenda Meyer of Flasher. Financial terms of the deal, which was finalized Thursday, were not disclosed.
The Meyers did not return telephone calls Thursday or Friday seeking comment. Energy Transfer Partners confirmed the purchase Friday but declined to provide further details.
The ranch, which is more than a century old and was the first to be inducted into the North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, is within a half-mile of an encampment on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' land where the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and hundreds of others are gathered to protest the pipeline. The tribe says the pipeline, which is slated to cross Lake Oahe, a Missouri River reservoir, threatens its water supply and violates several federal laws.
Corps records show Meyer pays $4,865 annually for exclusive grazing rights at the encampment site, a five-year lease that ends in 2018.
The purchase of the ranchland will allow ETP to better access its construction sites and the pipeline, when it is finished.
On Sept. 3, protesters and private security guards clashed after construction crews removed topsoil across an area about 150 feet (46 meters) wide stretching for 2 miles (3 km) on the ranch. The incident came one day after the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed court papers saying it found several sites of "significant cultural and historic value" along the pipeline's path.
Authorities said four security guards and two guard dogs were injured; the tribe says protesters reported that six people had been bitten by security dogs, and at least 30 people were pepper-sprayed. There were no law enforcement personnel at the site when the incident occurred.
The tribe, whose cause has drawn thousands across the globe to join their protest, has challenged the Army Corps of Engineers' decision to grant permits for the $3.8 billion, 1,172-mile (1886 km) pipeline that would ship North Dakota crude through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois.
A federal appeals court last week ordered a halt to construction within 20 miles on either side of Lake Oahe. The Departments of Justice, Army and Interior also has said it would "reconsider any of its previous decisions" on land that borders or is under the lake, one of six reservoirs on the Missouri River.
The Obama administration said Friday that it has invited leaders from 567 federally recognized tribes to participate in a series of consultations aimed at getting input on infrastructure projects. The meetings, scheduled from Oct. 25 through Nov. 21 in six regions of the U.S., will focus on "meaningful" tribal input into infrastructure-related decisions and the protection of tribal lands, resources and treaty rights. New legislation to promote those goals also will be considered.
Records show the Meyers purchased about 2,400 acres of the ranch in 2013 for $3.2 million; that land makes up half of the sale Thursday. Financial terms between ETP and the Meyers do not have to be disclosed under state law because the land has been reclassified from agriculture to industrial, the state Tax Department said.
The sale also is exempt from North Dakota's Depression-era anti-corporate farming law that limits the number of nonprofit groups allowed to buy land, and requires the governor to approve land purchases.

 

[gst]

The Obama administration said Friday that it has invited leaders from 567 federally recognized tribes to participate in a series of consultations aimed at getting input on infrastructure projects. The meetings, scheduled from Oct. 25 through Nov. 21 in six regions of the U.S., will focus on "meaningful" tribal input into infrastructure-related decisions and the protection of tribal lands, resources and treaty rights. New legislation to promote those goals also will be considered.

imagine that.

 

[dean nelson]

You know for such a big uproar about digging up ground I sure don't see the natives bitching as hundreds of thousands of acres of native prairie get churned up and turned into corn and soybean fields. Wonder how many "sacred rocks" are in giant piles all across the fields of North Dakota! Lord knows I heard enough "when I was your age we spent all day picking rocks" storys as a kid.....who knew the were racially raping the planet!

 

[Rowdie]

Ironically, the water line they are digging in from Mobridge isn't disturbing anything....hmmmm

 

[dean nelson]

Ironically, the water line they are digging in from Mobridge isn't disturbing anything....hmmmm

Amazing how that works isn't it! I'm assuming that's the one I saw getting put in along 1806 north of wakpala a couple years ago?

 

[Rowdie]

Yeah, That was leading to that new water plant, now the treated water is being piped to every community on the rez. Ironic how they are protesting, and right at Yates as I type, they are digging up ground in and around town with a bunch of huge pipes laying on the ground.

 

[johnr]

I'm guessing boredom runs rampant on a reservation. They feel as though they now have purpose.

 

[Migrator Man]

So the state historical society came out and said they found not evidence of artifacts on the site of the DAPL ROW that was cleared . They did find some of the sites adjacent to the ROW that were not disturbed. You would think if these were sacred that they would find one piece of evidence.

so much for this presidential ruling...

 

[johnr]

Hillary and Obama are neat

 

[dean nelson]

So the state historical society came out and said they found not evidence of artifacts on the site of the DAPL ROW that was cleared . They did find some of the sites adjacent to the ROW that were not disturbed. You would think if these were sacred that they would find one piece of evidence.

so much for this presidential ruling...

Well the thing that jumped out about this long ago is if the tribe realy went in there and found all these sacred sites they would have undoubtedly taken pics of them. Had DAPL bulldozed them the next day the Internet would have been immediately flooded with before and after pics on September 3rd!

 

[deleted___account]

Woopsi, didn't mean to piss on anybody's pow wow. The people are getting interested in the protests. http://www.prodapl.com/breaking-new...-now-targeting-farmers-ranchers-north-dakota/


They want to play games do they..........I'll ruin their credibility myself if nobody else will step up and call these people out with the truth.

 

[dean nelson]

That story is sorta funny because it looks like they took the AP story from this morning that was acurate but pretty close to the middle and slanted it way right. The bullet points look pretty much the same just with a different jist. Everything we are seeing now won't hold a candle if the Crossing gets approved because I have little doubt they will go bat shit crazy.

 

[dean nelson]

Well one good thing about this whole deal is its given all of us a very strong legal argument if the Corp ever tryst to bust you for being on their ground. I will definitely have some sort of protest sign every time I go ice fishing down there this year just in case they don't like my parking job!:;:cheers

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/national-business/article105391261.html