Tribe Leader: Government Offered 'Check-in-the-Box' Consultation on Pipeline

The federal government only allowed the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to consult in superficial ways on the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, a tribal councilman said at House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on Wednesday.

Chad Harrison, a councilman at-large for the tribe, testified that the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of the Interior had effectively settled on a route for the pipeline before giving the tribe an opportunity to object.

https://morningconsult.com/2017/02/15/tribe-leader-government-offered-check-box-consultation-pipeline/