President Donald Trump on Tuesday approving the Dakota Access Pipeline, which water protectors have been working to stop for months. In Albuquerque on Wednesday, people gathered outside the tall Wells Fargo bank Downtown to try and stanch the flow of money to the project known as DAPL.
Their signs said 鈥淒efend the sacred鈥� and 鈥淚 stand with Standing Rock.鈥� Cody Artis said they鈥檙e urging customers鈥攑eople and companies鈥攖o sever their relationship with Wells Fargo. The bank is invested in DAPL, and they鈥檙e hoping financial pressure will help stop the pipeline.
"A lot of the economic power lies in the banks," Artis said. "And once we get the banks to divest, we create a little chain reaction that goes down the line and affects a lot of big oil companies."
President Trump building the pipeline in North Dakota, though a spokesperson . The company鈥檚 to help get Trump elected.
Members of the crowd also objected to the near Chaco Canyon for oil and gas drilling, concerned about the impacts of fracking in the area.
