For months, Native Americans, environmentalists and even celebrities have been peacefully protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline Project at the Standing Rock reservation.

The Dakota Access Pipeline Project is a pipeline that will connect the Bakken and Three Forks production areas in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois and will be in service by the fourth quarter of 2016. According to Dakota Access, LLC, the pipeline will "enable domestically produced sweet crude oil from North Dakota to reach major refining markets in a more direct, cost-effective, safer and environmentally responsible manner." However, the Sioux tribe and environmentalists know that's not the whole story.

The pipeline will cross the Mississippi River twice, as well as a Native American reservation.

Millions of people rely on the Mississippi River for drinking water. If the pipeline were to burst, or for a leak to happen, that would be even more disastrous than the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

If that's not enough for you, the pipeline would violate a government treaty with the Great Sioux Nation. According to the Fort Laramie Treaty, of April 1868, "guarantees the Great Sioux Nation absolute and undisturbed access of the Black Hills and lands spanning multiple US states, including the site of the pipeline construction...." The construction of the pipeline, once construction begins in the reservation, would be violating this treaty, thus breaking the law.

Despite a case filed by the Great Sioux Nation being heard in Washington D.C. later in the month, which will halt the construction of the pipeline, service roads are already being made for construction to begin, which is being stalled by the protest.

This project claims the ends justify the means but begs the question, once again, at what cost? What is this worth? Especially with so many other oil and energy options?

So...who can buy me a plane ticket so I can join the protest?