

Standing Rock: Environmental Justice, Social Movement, and….Property Law?
Over the last few months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North Dakota have been in the international spotlight for their stance on an oil and gas project developed and engineered by Energy Transfer Partners, a Dallas-based natural gas pipeline company. For those of us who work in the oil and gas field, Energy Transfer Partners is not a ‘new’ player in oil and gas transmission, as they have been in business since 1995 doing pretty much the same infrastructure and pipeline pr