re: Dakota Access Pipeline Controversy

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How so?

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I'm assuming this:

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This jumble of private and public real estate creates significant administrative, political, and legal difficulties

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...might make obtaining clear title an issue. Plus, I'm not sure you could force sovereign tribes to sell.

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Why can't the rest be sold to a private entity? That would immediately clarify who is in the right here, as the DAP would need rights granted from every land owner involved.

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This is all quite beyond the point anyway, all you need is a contract for a ROW agreement.

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I believe this issue isn't even about tribal land, but the possibility that malfunctions in the pipeline could harm tribal land in the future.

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Actually it started out as the possibility that malfunctions in the pipeline could harm private land north of Bismark, as well as drinking water supplies for the city of Bismark, in the future.

As per usual, when people didn't want it in their backyard, they re-routed it to the Indian's backyard. Why was it so easy to get the pipeline rerouted the first time, but so impossible the second?