Talking to the Host of Drilled about the Legal Battles around Standing Rock

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🗓️ 30 June 2025

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Protests around the construction of the now complete Dakota Access Pipeline brought national attention to Energy Transfer, the company that built and owns the pipeline and funded private security against the protestors. Energy Transfer sued the nonprofit Greenpeace for hundreds of millions of dollars. The company claimed that the Standing Rock movement was not Indigenous-led environmental activism but a conspiratorial effort by Greenpeace. Reporter Alleen Brown is spending this season of her podcast, Drilled, looking into the lawsuit and the message that legal actions like this send to activists. Recommended reading: Listen to Drilled Read Alleen Brown’s newsletter E-mail us at [email protected] if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Naeem Amarsy and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Alex Sugiura with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	In 2016, a group of activists who called themselves water protectors, led by members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, set up camp on the windswept plains of North Dakota. Their protest against the
1:06.3	Dakota Access Pipeline quickly grew into one of the largest indigenous-led movements in recent U.S.
1:11.8	history. At the protest height, more than 10,000 people gathered to stand in defense of water,
1:17.5	land, and tribal sovereignty. The response? Militarized police, surveillance drones, and a private
1:25.3	security firm with war zone experience, and eventually
1:29.0	a sprawling lawsuit that arguably aimed to rewrite the history of Standing Rock.
1:34.6	My guest today is Aline Brown. She's a freelance journalist and a senior editor at Drilled,
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