Introducing...Drilled
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We are partnering with the podcast Drilled, to share something extra with you this week so that we can continue to bring our listeners brilliant investigations on The Slow Newscast and across The Observer audio network. You can discover more at https://observer.co.uk/listen.
This season, Drilled 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Matt here. We'll have our usual episode as a slow newscast tomorrow, but before then, I wanted to share a fantastic podcast from the team at Drilled. |
| 0:12.0 | This season, Drilled follows reporter Aline Brown through a legal trial that will change the course of activism in the United States and beyond. |
| 0:21.6 | Greenpeace, which was only loosely involved in the standing rock protests, had been slapped with a $66 million bill for damages. |
| 0:30.6 | That's despite the fact that the pipeline they were protesting got built anyway, and has now been making the company behind it energy transfer |
| 0:38.9 | millions of dollars for years. So how did we get here? Cody Hall, an indigenous activist who is a |
| 0:46.6 | key figure during the standing rock protests, walks us through how things went down back in 2016, |
| 0:52.3 | and where the suit all began. If you enjoy it, you can find more |
| 0:56.5 | drilled episodes wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:00.2 | Many week Tony, water is white. Many week Tony, water is white. Many we journey. Water is white. |
| 1:06.0 | Many we journey. Water is white. A small crowd of people gathered on the side of North Dakota Highway 1806, just north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. |
| 1:17.6 | A line of highway patrol officers were standing between them and a construction site. |
| 1:23.5 | Cody Hall, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, was in the crowd. |
| 1:34.1 | Those bulldozers were up and running, and we saw them moving the earth. |
| 1:46.2 | If those bulldozers were allowed to continue, a massive drill would soon bore a hole underneath the Missouri River to make way for the Dakota Access Pipeline. |
| 1:49.4 | The tension was so thick that something was going to happen physically. |
| 1:56.0 | And I remember thinking, I was like, oh gosh, |
| 2:01.9 | people are really at their point. |
| 2:07.0 | I'm sitting there, you know, kind of pacing back and forward. |
| 2:10.7 | I happen to look over to my right. |
| 2:14.1 | And I saw the women and they were singing their death song. |
| 2:23.3 | And in our culture, when you sing your death song, it means you are obviously not afraid to die. |
| 2:33.3 | And then all of a sudden a group of women. you were obviously not afraid to die. |
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