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Thomas Rainwater
- Lynelle Perry: Well, I'll get right to it, then. The Department of Interior has approved two pipelines in central Montana. One is a natural gas, and the other is captured carbon and the proposed pathway is through the reservation.
- Thomas Rainwater: The Secretary of the Interior was here with the President two days ago. They mentioned nothing.
- Lynelle Perry: As I'm learning, Federal politics is, well, they never take the gloves off because they never put them on.
- Thomas Rainwater: Is there a map of this pathway? The pipeline runs beneath our reservoir.
- Lynelle Perry: Yes.
- Thomas Rainwater: Our drinking water.
- Lynelle Perry: Yes.
- Mo Brings Plenty: How is the path chosen?
- Lynelle Perry: Well, it's the shortest distance between two points and the path of least legal resistance. To go to the west of you enters into State land forest service, east of you is private ranches, which have the funds to fight, and likely the support of our new governor.
- Mo Brings Plenty: They don't think we'll put up a fight?
- Thomas Rainwater: We can't put up a fight.Federal Government doesn't need our permission.
- Lynelle Perry: So that my position is clear, I do not support this. And I will declare my opposition, how much weight that holds in this instance I...
- Thomas Rainwater: If there's nothing you can do and there's nothing I can do, why are you telling me?
- Lynelle Perry: Because I know who's coming after your office and they'll use this against you. At least now, make a statement, get out in front of it. Make enough noise that the Department of Interior looks somewhere else. North Dakota, let's say.
- Mo Brings Plenty: That just ruins the land in North Dakota.
- Lynelle Perry: I'm not the Senator of North Dakota. So that's North Dakota's problem.
- Thomas Rainwater: I guess you don't put gloves on either.When will you publicly declare your opposition?
- Lynelle Perry: As soon as the pipeline is made public, which I assume is when you'll call a press conference.
- Thomas Rainwater: You set the press conference.Stand with the people this affects.
- Lynelle Perry: Standing beside you in solidarity is declaring my support for you as much as it is opposing a pipeline.
- Thomas Rainwater: We'll kill two birds with one stone.
- Lynelle Perry: Deal. I'll set it for tomorrow.
- Thomas Rainwater: Be good to have the governor there.
- Lynelle Perry: Well, the governor's playing hooky. Branding cattle.
- Thomas Rainwater: That's not what he was elected to do.
- Lynelle Perry: Oh, he did what he was elected to do. That's the way John sees it, anyway.
- Lynelle Perry: He's our governor, too. Perhaps you could remind him of that.