Here are CEO names, emails, and phone numbers—because banks have choices when it comes to what projects they give loans to. Why you can trust us By Emily Fuller 6 MIN READ

Updated May 11, 2017

The Dakota Access pipeline is funded directly by 15 banks, many of which—Citibank, Wells Fargo—are ones you’ve probably heard of or do business with. In all, three dozen banks are contributing to the Bakken pipeline—of which Dakota Access is a section—by offering credit to either the project or to parent companies, according to research by the nonprofit Food & Water Watch.

Since the Defund DAPL campaign began last year, two large European banks—DNB and ING—withdrew project-level funding for the Dakota Access after a massive public direct action and consumer campaign.

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, wrote an article for YES! suggesting that banks are more susceptible to public pressure than the oil and gas giants, which depend on bank loans and lines of credit to build their pipelines. “It’s probably sustained public pressure that will do the most good,” he wrote.

Wondering what to say to a bank executive?

Food & Water Watch researcher Hugh MacMillan suggests: “Ask these banks to clarify whether funds they are providing are being used, in any amount, to pay for the heavily militarized response to the Standing Rock Sioux, including the attack dogs, sound-cannon trucks, heavily armed officers.”

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