I like driving my gas and diesel vehicles. I like the products derived from oil like the jacket on CAT 5 cable and printed circuit boards. I like the price of oil to be as low as possible. I prefer having sources in this hemisphere and not funding the Arab world.
I too have built many miles of copper and fiber over public and tribal lands. I have gone through the exact same NEPA and FLPMA process as the pipeline many many times. I consider myself a NEPA expert and am currently advising the US Senate on ways to make that process work faster. Pissing and moaning that folks with more money than you are building a pipe to make even more money than you sounds like sour grapes and jealousy. If you are against the “commons” don’t use common frequencies. Don’t use ROWs. Don’t use electricity. I don’t get several things: Being against oil but using electricity and vehicles and FedEx. Being against certain forms of arguably safer and more efficient oil transportation. Being against certain rich people doing business but attempting to become a richer person yourself. Being against the use of public and private ROWs for oil pipelines but not for water pipelines, natural gas pipelines, sewers, fiber cables or electric. And being a second or third generation wanna-be 1960s social justice warrior going thousands of miles to hang with other like minded people and think you are really doing anything be being cold, being an ass, being stupid and wasting your time and the resources of local, state and federal authorities. Those folks are punks. (Their parents probably have BA in liberal arts). And yes, BTW, I too have made deals with tribes. It is as Lewis describes. You make the deal, you pay the money and more often than not when tribal leadership changes, the deal no longer exists and you have another round of payola. I have native American heritage in my blood. Don’t get all butt hurt when I say it is called “indian giving” for a reason. Tribes have communal property. You never own anything, you just possess it for a time until some other tribal member decides they need it. That spills over to dealing with non tribal members. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_giver
