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The indigenous organizer from the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/aug/30/fort-peck-indian-reservation-clean-water-fight-campaign" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Fort Peck reservation in Montana</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">fears that the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/keystone-xl-pipeline-route-water-native-american-reserves" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(199, 0, 0); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; outline: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(110, 153, 179); border-right-color: rgb(110, 153, 179); border-left-color: rgb(110, 153, 179);">proposed Keystone XL pipeline</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">could break and spill, destroy her tribe’s water, and desecrate sacred Native American sites.</span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But environmental catastrophe is not the most immediate threat.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The government has characterized pipeline opponents like her as “extremists” and violent criminals and warned of potential “terrorism”, according to recently released records.</p><aside class="element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded" data-component="rich-link" data-link-name="rich-link-1 | 1" style="float: left; margin: 0.3125rem 1.25rem 0.75rem -15rem; clear: both; width: 13.75rem; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="rich-link tone-feature--item rich-link--pillar-news" style="background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246); margin: 0px; position: relative; overflow: hidden;"><div class="rich-linkcontainer" style="position: relative;"><div class="rich-linkimage-container u-responsive-ratio" style="width: 220px; padding-bottom: 132px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; transition: background-color 0.25s ease 0s; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);"><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bf12b235f47e3de5a06e5939df8df584f13a502b/0_0_3735_2242/master/3735.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=a8e30c7710dfd48ad2ce48ef716414a9" itemprop="contentURL" style="border: 0px; width: 220px; height: 132px; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px;" /></div><div class="rich-linkheader" style="font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.5rem; font-family: "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; padding: 0.125rem 0.3125rem 0.5em; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 2.25rem;"><h1 class="rich-linktitle" style="margin: 0px; font: inherit; padding: 0px;"><a class="rich-linklink" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: inherit; cursor: pointer;">Life on the Keystone XL route: where opponents fear the ‘black snake’</a></h1></div><div class="rich-linkread-more" style="padding-left: 0.3125rem;"><div class="rich-linkarrow" style="display: inline-block;"><span class="inline-arrow-in-circle inline-icon " style="fill: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><svg width="24" height="24" viewbox="0 0 24 24" class="inline-arrow-in-circlesvg inline-iconsvg"><path class="rich-linkarrow-icon" d="M12 0C5.373 0 0 5.373 0 12s5.373 12 12 12 12-5.373 12-12S18.627 0 12 0m.21 19l-.637-.668 4.888-6.326H4.996v-1.01h11.465l-4.888-6.333.637-.668L19 11.153v.685l-6.79 7.157" fill-rule="evenodd" /></svg></span></div> <div class="rich-linkread-more-text" style="font-size: 0.875rem; font-family: "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; display: inline-block; height: 1.875rem; line-height: 1.625rem; padding-left: 0.125rem; vertical-align: top; color: rgb(199, 0, 0);">Read more</div></div><a class="rich-linklink u-faux-block-linkoverlay" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/02/keystone-xl-pipeline-route-water-native-american-reserves" aria-label="Life on the Keystone XL route: where opponents fear the ‘black snake’" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-indent: 200%; white-space: nowrap; position: absolute; z-index: 0; opacity: 0;" /></div></div></aside><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The documents suggested that police were organizing to launch an aggressive response to possible Keystone protests, echoing the actions against the Standing Rock movement in North Dakota. There, officers engaged in intense <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/10/standing-rock-fbi-investigation-dakota-access" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">surveillance</a> and faced widespread <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/dakota-access-pipeline-protesters-police-used-excessive-force" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">accusations of excessive force</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/31/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-investigation-human-rights-abuses" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">brutality</a>.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We have to stay one step ahead at all times,” said Cheek, a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota activist and teacher. “History is repeating itself.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The proposed TransCanada project would carry a daily load of 830,000 barrels of oil over 1,204 miles – from Alberta, Canada to Montana, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/03/keystone-pipeline-protests-land-rights-south-dakota" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">South Dakota and Nebraska</a>, linking to the existing Keystone pipeline and Texas refineries. The path of the project, which was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/24/keystone-xl-dakota-access-pipelines-revived-trump-administration" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">revived by Donald Trump last year</a>, would cross dozens of rivers and streams and run near a number of Native American reservations, sparking legal challenges and a judge’s <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pipeline-court-keystone/judge-orders-keystone-xl-pipeline-review-in-setback-for-trump-idUSKBN1L10A5" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">recent order</a> for a full environmental review.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If the pipeline gets final approvals and construction advances in the coming months, some are anticipating massive demonstrations similar to the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline (Dapl). That conflict <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/standing-rock-indigenous-people-history-north-dakota-access-pipeline-protest" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">galvanized a global movement</a>, but also led to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/10/standing-rock-fbi-investigation-dakota-access" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">FBI monitoring</a> and the prolonged <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/18/standing-rock-activists-justice-department-new-arrests" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">prosecution</a> of hundreds of activists.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/new-documents-reveal-government-plans-spy-keystone-xl-protesters" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Documents</a> obtained by the ACLU of Montana and reviewed by the Guardian have renewed concerns from civil rights advocates about the government’s treatment of indigenous activists known as water protectors.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Notably, one <a href="https://www.aclu.org/other/foia-document-government-email-about-anti-terrorism-training-ahead-keystone-xl-pipeline" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">record</a> revealed that authorities hosted a recent “anti-terrorism” training session in Montana. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency also organized a “field force operations” training to teach “mass-arrest procedures”, “riot-control formations” and other “crowd-control methods”.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A US justice department intelligence specialist told the Guardian the terrorism training was an annual presentation not specific to Keystone. But the ACLU noted that its records request was specifically about the pipeline protests, suggesting that authorities considered the session relevant to Keystone preparation.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/02/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-arrests-standing-rock" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">repeated</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/27/north-dakota-access-pipeline-protest-arrests-pepper-spray" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">mass arrests</a> at Standing Rock led to a litany of charges, but hundreds were eventually <a href="https://waterprotectorlegal.org/app/uploads/sites/7/2018/02/Brochure-8.20.18.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">dismissed</a> due to lack of evidence. Police deployed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/21/standing-rock-protest-hundreds-clash-with-police-over-dakota-access-pipeline" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">water cannons</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/29/standing-rock-protest-north-dakota-shutdown-evacuation" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">teargas grenades</a>, bean bag rounds and a wide array of weapons in North Dakota.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Many of our residents were in Standing Rock, and they saw the level of violence that could be visited on us,” said Remi Bald Eagle, the intergovernmental affairs coordinator of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, which is located along the Keystone route. “There’s a level of anxiety and fear because we don’t know what’s going to happen.”...</p><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ACLU of Montana, which filed a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/aclu-v-dod-complaint-0" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">lawsuit</a> this month against the government seeking Keystone records, earlier obtained a DHS <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4325264-May-2017-Field-Analysis-Report.html" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">report</a> that said pipeline protesters were engaged in “criminal disruptions and violent incidents”. The report included two past cases of alleged “environmental rights extremists” committing violence.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">But the events in question – a 2012 <a href="https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/dallas/press-releases/2013/plano-man-guilty-in-pipeline-bombing-incident" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">bombing</a> and a 2015 <a href="https://atg.sd.gov/OurOffice/Media/pressreleasesdetail.aspx?id=1450" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">shootout</a> with police – had no clear links to any environmental protests, said Mike German, a former FBI agent and fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“Treating protest as terrorism is highly problematic,” said German, noting that the US government has long <a href="https://www.aclu.org/files/fbimappingfoia/20120518/ACLURM026701.pdf" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">labeled</a> activism as “terrorism”, once claiming that filing public records requests was an “extremist” tactic. “It’s an effective way of suppressing protest activity and creating an enormous burden for people who want to go out and express their concerns.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The “terrorist” and “extremist” labels can be used to justify brutality and a militarized operation, said Andrea Carter, an attorney with the Water Protector Legal Collective, a group that has represented Standing Rock defendants.</p><aside class="element element-pullquote element--supporting" style="width: 13.75rem; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0.375rem 0.625rem 0.75rem; margin: 0.3125rem 0.625rem 1.5rem -7.5rem; float: left; clear: left; background-color: rgb(246, 246, 246); position: relative; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures"><span class="inline-garnett-quote inline-icon " style="fill: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-right: 0.625rem; width: 1.25rem;"><svg width="70" height="49" viewbox="0 0 35 25" class="inline-garnett-quotesvg inline-icon__svg"><path d="M69.587.9c-1.842 15.556-3.89 31.316-4.708 48.1H37.043c3.07-16.784 8.391-32.544 17.602-48.1h14.942zM32.949.9c-2.047 15.556-4.094 31.316-4.912 48.1H.2C3.066 32.216 8.592 16.456 17.598.9h15.35z" /></svg> </span><blockquote style="margin: 0px; display: inline;"><p class="pullquote-paragraph" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: 1.5rem; font-family: " guardian="Guardian" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-weight="font-weight" color="color" rgb="rgb" display="display" inline="inline">T</p></blockquote></aside><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">“It’s a really egregious tactic,” she said, noting that the labels also lay the groundwork for prosecutors to turn low-level misdemeanor cases into federal felony trials. “A lot of it has to do with public relations.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The Montana documents have also shone a light on the coordination between governments across state lines, raising questions about how extensively law enforcement was devoting resources to Keystone protests before they had materialized. An email from the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/montana" data-link-name="auto-linked-tag" data-component="auto-linked-tag" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Montana</a> fish, wildlife and parks department from earlier this year said state officials had conducted “extensive conversations with North Dakota to learn what worked and what didn’t work” when responding to Dapl demonstrations.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Montana authorities have done further training sessions on harnessing social media and have begun monitoring posts of anti-pipeline activists, a sheriff said at one meeting, according to a local news report.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">The records also highlighted the existing relationships between law enforcement and TransCanada. A county sheriff included a TransCanada executive on communications about one law enforcement training. In August 2017, the <b>Montana Petroleum Association</b>, a trade group, also hosted a panel on “environmental activism” in the state, featuring three law enforcement officers alongside TransCanada’s senior security adviser.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Rachel Lederman, a civil rights lawyer <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/29/standing-rock-protest-north-dakota-shutdown-evacuation" data-link-name="in body link" class="u-underline" style="background: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; color: rgb(171, 6, 19); cursor: pointer; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">representing Standing Rock activists</a>in a civil case, said it was alarming to see that law enforcement from North Dakota was giving advice about future pipeline protests: “They are instant experts on quashing the indigenous insurgency. It’s very, very concerning, because what happened at Standing Rock was just a wholesale violation of civil rights.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: " guardian="Guardian" text="Text" egyptian="Egyptian" web="Web" georgia="Georgia" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" font-variant-ligatures="font-variant-ligatures" common-ligatures="common-ligatures" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">John Barnes, a Montana justice department spokesman, defended the preparation efforts, saying in an email to the Guardian that authorities were committed to protecting “the first amendment rights of everyone while also protecting private property and public safety”. He added: “In North Dakota, bad actors associated with the Dakota Access pipeline protests maliciously targeted public officials and law-enforcement personnel online, and so it is important that people be prepared here.”</p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://YYY.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/keystone-pipeline-protest-activism-crackdown-standing-rock</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">will parrish and sam---</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>"Treating protest as terrorism': US plans crackdown on Keystone XL activists</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents suggest an aggressive response to possible protests against the oil pipeline amid fears of another Standing Rock</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Protests at Standing Rock during the resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Angeline Cheek is preparing for disaster. The indigenous organizer from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana fears that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline could break and spill, destroy her tribe’s water, and desecrate sacred Native American sites.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But environmental catastrophe is not the most immediate threat.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The government has characterized pipeline opponents like her as “extremists” and violent criminals and warned of potential “terrorism”, according to recently released records.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The documents suggested that police were organizing to launch an aggressive response to possible Keystone protests, echoing the actions against the Standing Rock movement in North Dakota. There, officers engaged in intense surveillance and faced widespread accusations of excessive force and brutality.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“We have to stay one step ahead at all times,” said Cheek, a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota activist and teacher. “History is repeating itself.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The proposed TransCanada project would carry a daily load of 830,000 barrels of oil over 1,204 miles – from Alberta, Canada to Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska, linking to the existing Keystone pipeline and Texas refineries. </b>The path of the project, which was revived by Donald Trump last year, would cross dozens of rivers and streams and run near a number of Native American reservations, sparking legal challenges and a judge’s recent order for a full environmental review.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the pipeline gets final approvals and construction advances in the coming months, some are anticipating massive demonstrations similar to the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline (Dapl). That conflict galvanized a global movement, but also led to FBI monitoring and the prolonged prosecution of hundreds of activists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Documents obtained by the ACLU of Montana and reviewed by the Guardian have renewed concerns from civil rights advocates about the government’s treatment of indigenous activists known as water protectors.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Treating protest as terrorism is highly problematic</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mike German, former FBI agent</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Notably, one record revealed that<b> authorities hosted a recent “anti-terrorism” training session in Montana. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)</b> and the <b>Federal Emergency Management Agency</b> also organized a “field force operations” training to teach “mass-arrest procedures”, “riot-control formations” and other “crowd-control methods”.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A US justice department intelligence specialist told the Guardian the terrorism training was an annual presentation not specific to Keystone. But the ACLU noted that its records request was specifically about the pipeline protests, suggesting that authorities considered the session relevant to Keystone preparation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The repeated mass arrests at Standing Rock led to a litany of charges, but hundreds were eventually dismissed due to lack of evidence. Police deployed water cannons, teargas grenades, bean bag rounds and a wide array of weapons in North Dakota.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Many of our residents were in Standing Rock, and they saw the level of violence that could be visited on us,” said Remi Bald Eagle, the intergovernmental affairs coordinator of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, which is located along the Keystone route. “There’s a level of anxiety and fear because we don’t know what’s going to happen.”</font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The ACLU of Montana, which filed a lawsuit this month against the government seeking Keystone records, earlier obtained a DHS report that said pipeline protesters were engaged in “criminal disruptions and violent incidents”. The report included two past cases of alleged “environmental rights extremists” committing violence.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But the events in question – a 2012 bombing and a 2015 shootout with police – had no clear links to any environmental protests, said Mike German, a former FBI agent and fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Treating protest as terrorism is highly problematic,” said German, noting that the US government has long labeled activism as “terrorism”, once claiming that filing public records requests was an “extremist” tactic. “It’s an effective way of suppressing protest activity and creating an enormous burden for people who want to go out and express their concerns.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “terrorist” and “extremist” labels can be used to justify brutality and a militarized operation, said Andrea Carter, an attorney with the Water Protector Legal Collective, a group that has represented Standing Rock defendants.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> They are instant experts on quashing the indigenous insurgency. It’s very, very concerning</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rachel Lederman, civil rights lawyer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“It’s a really egregious tactic,” she said, noting that the labels also lay the groundwork for prosecutors to turn low-level misdemeanor cases into federal felony trials. “A lot of it has to do with public relations.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Montana documents have also shone a light on the coordination between governments across state lines, raising questions about how extensively law enforcement was devoting resources to Keystone protests before they had materialized. An email from the Montana fish, wildlife and parks department from earlier this year said state officials had conducted “extensive conversations with North Dakota to learn what worked and what didn’t work” when responding to Dapl demonstrations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Montana authorities have done further training sessions on harnessing social media and have begun monitoring posts of anti-pipeline activists</b>, a sheriff said at one meeting, according to a local news report.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The records also highlighted the existing relationships between law enforcement and TransCanada<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> A county sheriff included a TransCanada executive on communications about one law enforcement training. In August 2017, the <b>Montana Petroleum Association, a trade group, also hosted a panel on “environmental activism” in the state, featuring three law enforcement officers alongside TransCanada’s senior security adviser. = FASCISM</b></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rachel Lederman, a civil rights lawyer representing Standing Rock activists in a civil case, said it was alarming to see that law enforcement from North Dakota was giving advice about future pipeline protests: “They are instant experts on quashing the indigenous insurgency. It’s very, very concerning, because what happened at Standing Rock was just a wholesale violation of civil rights.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Barnes, a Montana justice department spokesman, defended the preparation efforts, saying in an email to the Guardian that authorities were committed to protecting “the first amendment rights of everyone while also protecting private property and public safety”. He added: “In North Dakota, bad actors associated with the Dakota Access pipeline protests maliciously targeted public officials and law-enforcement personnel online, and so it is important that people be prepared here.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> A protests against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Facebook Twitter Pinterest A protests against the Keystone XL pipeline in Washington. Photograph: Gary Cameron/Reuters</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some activists said the law enforcement tactics would not deter them from Keystone opposition efforts – whether in court or on the ground.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’ve got a lot against us. We’re the underdog,” said Lance Four Star, the Fort Peck Assiniboine council chairman, who recounted a recent incident of harassment and heckling by a pro-pipeline, pro-Trump group while the tribe was doing a ceremony. “I may never see the results of my efforts in my lifetime, but hopefully our grandchildren will. What we’re protecting now is this water we inherited.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Peck said she was also concerned about a potential increase in violence against indigenous women, stemming from the “man camps” where oil workers live. </b>But the Montana wildlife department appeared to minimize this concern in one of the records, saying, “Although man-camps bring a certain degree of law enforcement challenges, the primary enforcement focus is protest activity.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Organizers have discussed a “variety of strategies” to oppose construction, including “prayer camps” similar to Standing Rock, said Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member Joye Braun, who organized against Dapl and has been involved in Keystone efforts. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Clearly, they’re scared of the power of our movement,” she said, adding that she accepted the reality that she may be under surveillance when she travels the pipeline route to meet activists. “We haven’t gone anywhere, and we’re just building momentum.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Native Americans know the risks are immense. But the “terrorism” label would not intimidate them, said Leoyla Cowboy, the wife of Little Feather, who was recently sentenced to three years in federal prison for “civil disorder” at Standing Rock.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“As indigenous people, it’s embedded in our DNA. It’s our obligation to stand up.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no pix</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><h1 style="text-align: left; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="font-style: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Montana Petroleum Association</font></strong></h1><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 300; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">25 Neill Avenue, Suite 202</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Helena, MT 59601</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">406.442.7582</font></div><div style="text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">406.443.7291 fax</font></div><div style="text-align: left; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="mailto:mpa@montanapetroleum.org" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" /><a href="mailto:mpa@montanapetroleum.org" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">mpa@montanapetroleum.org</a></font></div></h3></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FrackNation is a pro-fracking documentary that attacks opponents of fracking for oil and gas. The film was released in January 2013. Kevin Begos of the Associated Press wrote of the "release of the documentary now is clearly an attempt to play off a current Hollywood film on fracking, "Promised Land," which stars Matt Damon. But the David vs. Goliath roles are turned upside down, since McAleer's pro-fracking production received thousands of small donations on the fundraising site Kickstarter, while Damon's film, which has an anti-fracking angle, had millions of dollars in funding, including some from the United Arab Emirates ... McAleer says anti-fracking activists have based their crusade on faulty claims and a disdain for the actual wishes of many people in the rural communities where land is drilled. His main target is Josh Fox, the director of "Gasland," the 2010 award-winning, anti-drilling documentary that has inspired many critics of fracking."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://216.92.66.74/index.php/Documentaries_about_fracking#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The film has been praised by conservative publications such as the National Review and Fox News as a fact-based counter to Josh Fox's film Gasland.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://216.92.66.74/index.php/Documentaries_about_fracking#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://216.92.66.74/index.php/Documentaries_about_fracking#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> <b>Montana Petroleum Association </b>hosted ‘FrackNation’ showing at fairgrounds in Helena.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://216.92.66.74/index.php/Documentaries_about_fracking#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The film received mixed reviews after its initial showings in Los Angeles and New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://216.92.66.74/index.php/Documentaries_about_fracking#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://archive.today/nGcWE</font></div><div><div style="line-height: 18px; zoom: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin-right: 10px; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">eptember 02, 2009 5:15 pm • <a href="https://archive.today/o/nGcWE/http://billingsgazette.com/search/?l=50&sd=desc&s=start_time&f=html&byline=CLAIR%20JOHNSON%0AOf%20The%20Gazette%20Staff" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">CLAIR JOHNSON Of The Gazette Staff</a></font></div><div style="margin-left: 10px; float: right;"><a href="https://archive.today/o/nGcWE/http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/civil-rights-spokesman-speaks-to-montana-petroleum-association/article_f7d7e462-9816-11de-ae56-001cc4c002e0.html%23comments" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -9999px; display: block; width: 16px; height: 16px; float: left; background-image: url(http://img.archive.today/nGcWE/0e844f235e82f6da4bdcb969aed619580e63f6be.png); background-color: transparent; background-position: -128px -96px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">(0) Comments</font></span></a></div><span style="overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden; line-height: 0; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: table; clear: both;" /></div><div style="line-height: 18px; zoom: 1; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); border-top-width: medium; border-right-width: medium; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none;"><span style="overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: table; line-height: 0; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><aside style="display: inline; width: 220px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; float: right; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><div><a href="https://archive.today/o/nGcWE/http://billingsgazette.com/content/tncms/live/%23" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; cursor: pointer; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img src="http://img.archive.today/nGcWE/aba07be879934bb4-9e94-5215-a755-0b6bd9245529.jpg" style="line-height: 1; width: 220px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></font></a></div><div style="border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: -5px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Niger Innis, international spokesman with the Congress of Racial Equality, speaks on the impacts of energy challenges and the poor during the annual meeting of the Montana Petroleum Association at the Crowne Plaza Hotel Wednesday afternoon, September 2, 2009.</font><div><a href="https://archive.today/o/nGcWE/http://billingsgazette.com/content/tncms/live/%23" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; cursor: pointer; line-height: 18px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: -9999px; display: block; width: 16px; height: 16px; float: left; background-image: url(http://img.archive.today/nGcWE/0e844f235e82f6da4bdcb969aed619580e63f6be.png); background-color: transparent; background-position: -129px -112px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Enlarge Photo</font></span></a></div></div></div></aside><div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A national civil rights spokesman told Montana energy producers Wednesday that the country's energy policy will harm the poor and threaten their industry and the economy.</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Niger Innis, the spokesman for Congress of Racial Equality, called for the production of "more of everything,'' including renewable energy like solar and wind power and "good old-fashioned fossil fuel.''</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Innis was the luncheon speaker at the Montana Petroleum Association's annual meeting held at the Crowne Plaza in Billings.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> More than 150 industry representatives along with local, state and federal representatives and officials attended the luncheon. The three-day meeting and <b>golf tournament</b> ended Wednesday.</span></font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Innis said the country's energy development is critical to its economic growth and to economic equality for all people, especially the poor. People with incomes below the poverty level spend 50 cents of every dollar on energy compared with 5 cents of every dollar spent by people with average incomes, he said.</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He blasted environmental groups - repeatedly calling them "the green mafia'' - and the "elite media'' saying they were trying to stop energy development.</font></span></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laws and policies that restrict access to energy drive up prices for everything from food to transportation and disproportionately harm the poor and disadvantaged, he said.</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In particular, Innis called the cap and trade bill passed by the U.S. House an assault on the country's energy industry.</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Waxman-Markey legislation, which Innis called the "cap and tax'' bill, seeks to limit greenhouse gases by creating a national cap on emissions and then granting credits or allowances to industries that emit these gases. Industries must either reduce their emissions or buy more allowances. The legislation has stalled in the Senate while industries are trying to kill it.</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the cap and trade plan becomes law, Innis said jobs will be lost, households will pay more for energy and the economy will shrink.</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The global benefit of the cap-and-trade bill also is dubious, he added, because major carbon emitters like China and India are not part a comprehensive agreement. There will be an imbalance if the United States does everything and other countries do nothing about climate change, he said.</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Congress of Racial Equality is proud of its efforts to nearly kill the cap-and-trade bill, Innis said. But even if it is defeated, the federal Environmental Protection Agency will enact it "by fiat'' through the Clean Air Act, he said. The only way to stop that is for Americans to "resoundingly say no,'' he said.</font></div><div style="line-height: 22px; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CORE was founded in 1942 as a civil rights organization. Based in New York City, the nonprofit group promotes equality for all people. Innis has appeared on national news programs including CNN and Fox News. His father, Roy Innis, is CORE's national chairman.</font></div></div><span style="overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: table; clear: both; line-height: 0; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; zoom: 1; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); border-top-width: medium; border-right-width: medium; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-left-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 15px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden; line-height: 0; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: table;"><h3 style="float: left; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tags</font></h3><div style="margin-left: 55px; line-height: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://archive.today/o/nGcWE/http://billingsgazette.com/search/?k=%22niger%20innis%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=Niger%20Innis" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Niger Innis</a>, <a href="https://archive.today/o/nGcWE/http://billingsgazette.com/search/?k=%22congress%20of%20racial%20equality%22&t=&l=20&d=&d1=&d2=&f=html&s=start_time&sd=desc&sHeading=Congress%20Of%20Racial%20Equality" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; font-weight: inherit; border: 0px none white; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Congress Of Racial Equality</a></font></div></span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GOVERNMENT RELATIONS</font></h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 style="margin: auto 6pt auto 0in; padding: 5px; font-weight: 300; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); border-top: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(187, 187, 187);">Billings Chamber of Commerce/CVB</h4><p style="margin: 0px 6pt 18px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.billingschamber.com/" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">www.billingschamber.com</a><br style="" />PO Box 31177<br style="" />Billings, MT 59107<br style="" />Phone: 406-869-3723<br style="" />Fax: 406-245-7333<br style="" /><a href="mailto:bruce@billingschamber.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Bruce MacIntyre</a>, Director, Business Advocacy<br style="" /><a href="mailto:john@billingschamber.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">John Brewer</a>, President & CEO<br style="" /><a href="mailto:alex@billingschamber.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Alex Tyson</a>, Executive Director CVB</p><h4 style="margin: auto 6pt auto 0in; padding: 5px; font-weight: 300; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); border-top: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); line-height: 18px; 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Last Chance Gulch<br style="" />Helena, MT 59601<br style="" />Phone: 406-442-8560<br style="" />Fax: 406-442-8783<br style="" />Dana Hupp, Attorney at Law<br style="" />Peter Scott, Attorney at Law<br style="" />Alan Joscelyn, Attorney at Law<br style="" />Legal Services</p><h4 style="margin: auto 6pt auto 0in; padding: 5px; font-weight: 300; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); border-top: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(187, 187, 187);">Gray and Johnson PLLP</h4><p style="margin: 0px 6pt 18px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.grayandjohnson.com/" target="blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">www.grayandjohnson.com</a><br style="" />1655 Shiloh Road, Suite A<br style="" />Billings, MT 59106<br style="" />Phone: 406-294-2889<br style="" />Fax: 406-248-4146<br style="" /><a href="mailto:sgray@grayandjohnson.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Scotti Gray</a>, Attorney at Law<br style="" /><a href="mailto:djohnson@grayandjohnson.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Darin Johnson</a>, Attorney at Law<br style="" />Legal Services</p><h4 style="margin: auto 6pt auto 0in; padding: 5px; font-weight: 300; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); border-top: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(187, 187, 187);">Holland & Hart LLP</h4><p style="margin: 0px 6pt 18px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.hollandhart.com/" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">www.hollandhart.com</a><br style="" />401 N. 31<br style="" />Billings, MT 59101<br style="" />Phone: 406-252-2166<br style="" />Fax: 406-252-1669<br style="" /><a href="mailto:wwmercer@hollandhart.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">William W. Mercer</a>, Partner<br style="" /><a href="mailto:lpetersen@hollandhart.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Larry W. Petersen</a>, Of Counsel<br style="" />Legal Services</p><h4 style="margin: 0px 6pt 16px 0px; padding: 5px; font-weight: 300; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); border-top: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(187, 187, 187);">Lee Law Office PC</h4><p style="margin: 0px 6pt 18px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PO Box 790<br style="" />Shelby, MT 59474-0790<br style="" />Phone: 406-434-5244<br style="" />Fax: 406-434-5246<br style="" /><a href="mailto:don.leelaw@gmail.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Don Lee</a>, Attorney At Law<br style="" /><a href="mailto:brian.leelaw@gmail.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Brian Lee</a>, Attorney At Law<br style="" /><a href="mailto:luke.leelaw@gmail.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Luke Casey</a>, Attorney At Law<br style="" />Legal Services</p><h4 style="margin: 0px 6pt 16px 0px; padding: 5px; font-weight: 300; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); border-top: 1px solid rgb(136, 136, 136); line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(187, 187, 187);">Oram & Houghton, PLLC</h4><p style="margin: 0px 6pt 18px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.oram-houghton.com/" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">www.oram-houghton.com</a><br style="" />PO Box 357<br style="" />Sheridan, WY 82801<br style="" />Phone: 307-673-4937<br style="" /><a href="mailto:matt@oram-houghton.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Matthew C. Houghton</a>, Attorney<br style="" /><a href="mailto:tj@oram-houghton.com" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">TJ Oram</a>, Attorney<br style="" />Legal Services</p></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div>