Introducing: Drilled from Critical Frequency

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CBC

True Crime

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This season, the Drilled podcast from Critical Frequency follows reporter Alleen Brown through a legal trial that will change the course of activism in the U.S. and beyond. Greenpeace, which was only tangentially involved in the Standing Rock protests, has been slapped with a $666 million bill for damages...despite the fact that the Dakota Access Pipeline was built, and has been making its builder, Energy Transfer, millions of dollars for years. How did we get here? Cody Hall, an Indigenous activist who was a key figure during the Standing Rock protests and was targeted in Energy Transfer's lawsuit, walks us through how things went down back in 2016, and where this suit began. More Drilled episodes can be found at: https://push.fm/fl/drilled

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:06.1	This season, the drilled podcast from critical frequency follows reporter Aline Brown,
0:12.2	through a legal trial that will change the course of activism in the U.S. and beyond.
0:17.4	Greenpeace, which was only tangentially involved in the Standing Rock protests, has been
0:22.2	slapped with a $666 million bill for damages, despite the fact that the Dakota Access
0:28.5	pipeline was built and has been making its builder energy transfer millions of dollars for years.
0:34.6	How did we get here? Cody Hall, an indigenous activist who was a key figure during
0:39.3	the Standing Rock protests and was targeted in Energy Transfer's lawsuit, walks listeners through how
0:44.9	things went down back in 2016, and where this suit began. Now, here's an episode from the new
0:51.7	season of Drilled.
0:54.8	Thank you. Now, here's an episode from the new season of Drilled. We need to join in.
0:59.7	Water is white.
1:01.0	Winnie we journey.
1:02.6	Water is light.
1:03.9	Many week journey.
1:05.4	Water is light.
1:06.9	A small crowd of people gathered on the side of North Dakota Highway 1806, just north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
1:15.9	A line of highway patrol officers were standing between them and a construction site.
1:21.4	Cody Hall, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, was in the crowd.
1:25.5	Those bulldozers were up and running, and we saw them moving the earth.
1:32.8	If those bulldozers were allowed to continue, a massive drill would soon bore a hole underneath
1:39.4	the Missouri River to make way for the Dakota Access Pip. The tension was so thick that something was going to happen physically.
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