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Drilled

Introducing Lawless Planet: "Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline"

Drilled

Pushkin Industries

Earth Sciences, True Crime, Science

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When activists Jessica Reznicek and Ruby Montoya take drastic measures to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, they have no idea that a shadowy private security contractor called TigerSwan has them in its sights. 

Special thanks to:

Alleen Brown and The Intercept (https://theintercept.com/2018/12/30/tigerswan-infiltrator-dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock/)

You Strike A Match by Julia Shipley (https://grist.org/protest/dakota-access-pipeline-activists-property-destruction/)

Democracy Now (https://www.democracynow.org/)

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0:00.0

I'm Aline Brown. On Drilled Season 12, we brought you Slapped, a series about the pipeline giant energy

0:11.7

transfers massive lawsuit against Greenpeace. It's the story of an indigenous nation fighting

0:17.9

for its water, an environmental nonprofit facing extinction, and an energy

0:23.3

giant using the courts to punish protesters. And at the heart of it all was the indigenous-led

0:29.5

movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. But back in 2018, I covered a different story

0:36.1

about DAPL for The Intercept, about Jessica

0:38.9

Resnichek and Ruby Montoya, two women who attempted to stop the pipeline through acts of

0:45.0

sabotage and vandalism and paid a heavy price for their actions.

0:50.9

Today, we're going to play you an episode of another podcast that tells Ruby and Jessica's story.

0:56.7

It's called Lawless Planet, and like Drilled, it's a show about crime in the environment.

1:02.2

On each episode of Lawless Planet, host Zach Goldbaum reveals the scams, murders, and cover-ups on the front line of the climate crisis, and the choices

1:12.0

people are making to either protect our world or destroy it. The episode I'm going to play for you

1:18.4

today is called surveillance and sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline, and it's about how far

1:24.4

corporations will go to criminalize protesting and protect their interests.

1:29.5

While you're listening, follow Lawless Planet wherever you get your podcasts.

1:43.3

Both candidates are on the board with wins.

1:45.8

Reproject Clinton will get Vermont's three electoral votes.

1:49.1

Trump breaks in eight in the bluegrass state of Kentucky.

1:53.5

It's election night, 2016.

1:56.3

All across the country, Americans are glued to their televisions,

1:59.6

watching the results come in.

2:02.6

But not Jessica Reznicheck in Ruby Montoya.

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