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November 30, 2016

Al Gore: Dakota Access Pipeline is an "Absolute Atrocity"
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In Washington, D.C., former Vice President Al Gore has spoken out
against another pipeline, the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline, while
speaking at The New York Times Global Leaders' Collective conference.

Al Gore: "The massive investment in these pipeline infrastructure
projects will be amortized over 50 to 75 years, and we need that capital
to flow into renewables. This Standing Rock project is an atrocity. It
is an absolute atrocity. And I wish that President Obama would step in
before there is more violence out there against those-they call
themselves water protectors. This is an embarrassment to our country.
All those promises have been broken for so long. Using water cannons in
subfreezing temperatures, that's inhumane."



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