Dakota Pipe Line, American Indian Land, The Need for Oil

The Dakota Access pipeline is a 1,172-mile oil pipeline that stretches through North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and southern Illinois. The pipeline would allow oil companies to transport crude oil from North Dakota to oil refineries along the Eastern Seaboard. The pipeline’s construction was permitted by the participating state governments under eminent domain. Opponents of the pipeline (including several Native American tribes, which could have gone around the reservations, I mean has not enough land been taken from the American Indian? The debate is that the pipeline has the potential to pollute their water supply and destroy Native American burial sites. Proponents argue that the pipeline is necessary for the U.S. to achieve energy independence, which is. Brings to the thought, why not a water pipeline from Alaska and Canada to the breadbasket of the USA?