updated Mon. September 2, 2024
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The Intercept
March 12, 2018
The private security firm routinely coordinated with law enforcement, sharing equipment and intelligence and assisting with arrests. Although preventing water pollution was the Standing Rock movement's rallying call, many of its organizers were also climate activists; the earliest DAPL opponents wereÃâà...
Pacific Standard
March 9, 2018
We also now know from security documents leaked to The Intercept that TigerSwan, a private security firm hired by Energy Transfer Partners, the company ... The North Dakota Private Investigative and Security Board filed a suit alleging that these tactics included sending undercover agents into the camps.
Axios
March 8, 2018
Trump's approval is higher than Democratic senators up for reelection in six of the states (Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio and West Virginia). Trump's approval is ... "In January 2017, Erik Prince, the founder of the private security company Blackwater, met with a Russian official close to ... Putin and laterÃâà...
The Intercept
March 2, 2018
Spees has also represented activists fighting to prevent the private security firm TigerSwan from obtaining a permit to work in Louisiana. TigerSwan was hired by ETP in North Dakota to coordinate the security response to the Dakota Access opposition. The security firm, run by former special operationsÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 14, 2018
... speaks in Fort Yates, N.D. Iron Eyes, who is accused of inciting a riot during protests in North Dakota against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, wants a judge to force prosecutors to obtain and turn over evidence from private security firms. The request contends private security workers acted as agents of theÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 13, 2018
A private security firm hired by the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline wants a judge to restrict evidence during an October civil trial over whether it ... North Dakota's Private Investigative and Security Board maintains TigerSwan operated without a license during protests against the pipeline. It wantsÃâà...
Bismarck Tribune
January 9, 2018
BISMARCK — A trial has been scheduled in the case of a Dakota Access Pipeline security firm that a North Dakota regulatory board alleged was ... TigerSwan has said it "did not undertake or furnish 'private security service' or 'private investigative service' within North Dakota" as defined by state law.
DeSmog (blog)
November 13, 2017
The groups are also trying to stop TigerSwan LLC, one of the security firms that ETP worked with in North Dakota, from obtaining a permit to operate in Louisiana. ETP, the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline, intends to build a 162-mile pipeline across southern Louisiana. If built, the Bayou BridgeÃâà...
Truth-Out
December 31, 1999
TigerSwan's license application with the Louisiana State Board of Private Security was turned down last year. The denial was based on the pending litigation against the company for allegedly operating in North Dakota without a permit. Some Bayou Bridge opponents believe the company was working inÃâà...
