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S10, Ep 14: What Happened at Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

Drilled • Season 10 Episode 14

S10, Ep 14: What Happened at Bayou Bridge? The Other End of the Dakota Access Pipeline

Pipelines and Refineries
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While protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation garnered international news coverage, at the southern end of the pipeline, cops moonlighting as pipeline security were suppressing free speech with impunity. In this episode, reporter Karen Savage tells us what happened at Bayou Bridge, and what lessons the story holds for the climate movement and for anyone who believes in the importance of democracy.

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