“It’s death by a thousand cuts to a bad business model run by some folks who want to think it’s the eighties and are trying to make money on shortsighted schemes,”O’Laughlin says. This week is a culmination of decades of work to fight unnecessary pipelines, she says, but the movement hit a significant inflection point in 2016, at the Standing Rock protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline. “It showed that you don’t have to wait for an invitation. If you see the harm happening, you can do something,” she says.