The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is more than a thousand miles away, but it didn’t take long for the controversy surrounding the $3.7-billion Dakota Access Pipeline to funnel into our neighborhood.
After protesting outside of Energy Transfer Partners — the company spearheading the pipeline’s construction — in early November, hundreds attended an interfaith rally there this past Saturday.
Protestors have lined up outside the Preston Hollow home of CEO Kelcy Warren, after his contact information went viral and the hacker group Anonymous released a video that gave out his address. Warren owns the Austin-based recording studio Music Road Records, so it may come as no surprise that is being boycotted, too.
On Wednesday, PBS NewsHour’s William Brangham interviewed Warren about the pipeline, and he makes if clear if protestors “want to stick around and continue to do what they’re doing great, but we’re building the pipeline.”
