Native American business leaders slammed environmental protesters who reportedly broke into and vandalized a Native-American-owned company’s construction equipment in an attempt to disrupt the assembly of the Line 3 pipeline.
“This not only created a hardship for our workers, it created additional challenges for our companies,” a group of six Native American business leaders said in a statement. “Protests that disrupt work, damage property, and threaten our employees while claiming to be on behalf of our Native people is creating additional tension and consequences within our tribal communities. They also intentionally create a false narrative that there is no Native American support for this project and the economic impacts and opportunities it brings to our people.”
