Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
The CEO of North Dakota’s biggest oil company said that simply paying off native communities with oil-related work would defuse the ongoing standoff against the US$3.7 billion Dakota Access pipeline. Native American communities say that economics are not a factor when faced with the irreparable damage that the pipeline.
James J. Volker, CEO of Whiting Petroleum Corp, said that economic opportunities such as oil service contracts and jobs related to the oil industry, such as water hauling, could be given to Native American-owned companies.
“We, as an industry, would like to see them provide those services … It does provide a better standard of living for them, it does provide a direct tie to the energy business and makes them and their tribal leaders more inclined to have more energy development,” said Volker, speaking to the Independent Petroleum Association of America on Tuesday.
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