The Dakota Access Pipeline - A Pressing Issue for a Nation

The Dakota Access pipeline is a 1700 kilometer (1100 Mile) pipeline that is intended to transport the 400,000 barrels of oil that are coming from the Bakken and Three Forks oil fields in the U.S. State of North Dakota every day.

And people in the region and around the nation are pissed.

Native Americans have been protesting the building of the pipeline for nearly two years. But the  in July when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted the builders a permit allowing the pipeline to cross under the Missouri River at a place called Lake Oahe, which is just about half a mile North of the the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation.

Join Rick and Jim and guests as they have a conversation about what is going on here and what the ramifications are for a nation addressing a pressing issue.