U.S. Jesuits call the decision to move ahead with the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline “morally unacceptable,” recognizing with Pope Francis that “water is a fundamental human right.”
According to the Jesuit statement, released on Feb. 23, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Missouri Tribal Nations “have raised significant concerns about potential threats to their water supply and their legitimate rights as sovereign governments to be consulted and heard in the permitting process.”
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