When consideration of a planned oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois came up in 2016, President Obama said he wasn’t familiar with the particulars and would have to confer with aides.
“We know he’s listening, but he isn’t helping,” Alice Brown Otter, 12, said. “He said he’d do anything for us. Where is he?”
So Brown Otter and her friend, Gracey Claymore, organized a series of relay runs that stretched 2000 miles. By the time runners reached Washington, crowds of protesters sprinkled with celebrities were demanding an answer.
And they got it. After a federal judge sided with the oil companies, the Dept. of Justice, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Dept. of the Interior ruled “construction of the pipeline will not go forward at this time.”
There’s more to do, but it’s running in the right direction.
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