Trump announces plans to proceed with DAPL

Spicer hinted Trump plans to proceed with the Dakota Access Pipeline. Shortly before 10PM on Jan 23, Trump's White House confirmed this plan. The Environmental Impact Statement process is now underway, buying time for the #NoDAPL campaign to target and drive away banks and investors funding the project. Trump will probably attempt to short-circuit this review with some kind of fast-track process.

Racist Donald Trump has essentially declared by this action that Standing Rock and the Standing Rock Sioux are to be sacrificed, the near certainty of an evential pipeline break being an acceptable price for Sunoco's profits. These profits may have to be offset by the cost to investors of staying with the Dakota Access Pipeline through a protest campaign that may well resemble the 15 year campaign against puppy-killing Huntingdon Life Sciences. On Inauguration Day itself, one of the targets struck by the Black Bloc was a Bank of America branch, this being one of the banks involved in the pipeline. This carries a price, and Bank of America has but made the first payment. When their executives cannot sleep because of the constant, day and night drumming outside their homes they will understand that the DAPL is way to much hassle for just one more investment.

When it comes to keeping CEOS up at night, there is no way to drums-drums are the way...