S12, Ep1: How did we get here?

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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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 Energy Transfer millions of dollars for years. How did we get here? Cody Hall, an Indigenous water protector who was a key figure during the Standing Rock protests and was initially also targeted in Energy Transfer's suit, walks us through how things went down back in 2016 and 2017, and where this suit began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A small
0:01.0	water is white!
0:03.0	Winnieway Tony!
0:04.0	Water is light!
0:06.0	Many week joining.
0:07.0	Water is light.
0:09.0	A small crowd of people gathered on the side of North Dakota Highway 1806, just north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
0:17.0	A line of highway patrol officers were standing between them and a construction site.
0:23.3	Cody Hall, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, was in the crowd.
0:27.4	Those bulldozers were up and running, and we saw them moving the earth.
0:34.8	If those bulldozers were allowed to continue, a massive drill would soon bore a hole
0:40.9	underneath the Missouri River to make way for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
0:46.1	The tension was so thick that something was going to happen physically.
0:55.9	And I remember thinking, I was like, oh gosh, people are really at their point.
1:06.8	I'm sitting there, you know, kind of pacing back forward.
1:10.5	I happen to look over to my right.
1:13.9	And I saw the women and they were singing their death song.
1:25.1	And in our culture, when you sing your death song, that means you are obviously not afraid to die.
1:34.0	And then all of a sudden a group of women went and jumped the barbed wire fence.
1:41.4	Nobody had planned this.
1:43.3	The fence marked the edge of the area where police
1:45.5	were allowing protest. Beyond it lay the construction site and open grasslands. I was like,
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