Locals Blame Out-Of-State Activists For Pollution From Anti-Pipeline Protest

[irksomesauce]

Anti-pipeline protestors have left a huge mess of garbage, human waste, abandoned vehicles and more in a flood plain next to the Missouri River in North Dakota. As they struggle to keep all this pollution out of the river, officials want the world to know who caused this problem: Activists from out of state.

“When we take a look at the figures and pull out where people are from … you definitely notice that not a lot of North Dakotans are in that group,” Rob Keller, public information officer for the Morton County Sheriff’s Department, told Western Wire.

Thousands of anti-oil and gas protestors have camped at the confluence of the Cannonball and Missouri rivers since August trying to block the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Under pressure from “keep it in the ground” groups, the Obama administration pulled back the approvals needed to build the final section of the pipeline under the Missouri River. But those approvals were reinstated by President Trump and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) has issued an emergency evacuation order for the protest site “to avoid an ecological disaster to the Missouri River.” As Western Wire reported last week, the site is covered in debris, trash and untreated human waste from months of occupation by protestors, and officials are also worried about the cars and trucks that activists brought to the site. Seasonal flooding from melting snow threatens to sweep all these contaminants into the river, and one car has already been found in the water, according to the sheriff’s department.

Under Burgum’s order, the deadline for protestors to leave is tomorrow. A similar order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the land, has the same deadline. Meanwhile, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has opposed the pipeline and continues to fight the project in court, asked the protestors to leave weeks ago.

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[4est_4est_Gump]

Speaking of pollution, they lit their city afire...



You can't make this stuff up!

 

[irksomesauce]

http://static.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/391237a2-f93a-11e6-b437-5b069da906a2-640x457.jpg

Police arresting holdouts, more than 100 demonstrators refusing to leave protest camp

Preparing to leave, Standing Rock protesters ceremonially burn camp near Dakota Access Pipeline

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...-protest-camp-being-leveled-emptied-by-force/

 

[mark_j]

While I may have sympathy for the various environmental causes these folks are protesting, when they leave a mess of the magnitude that I understand they have I begin to lose respect for them.

Want to have credibility as watchdogs of the environment? Clean up your fucking mess before you leave!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

While I may have sympathy for the various environmental causes these folks are protesting, when they leave a mess of the magnitude that I understand they have I begin to lose respect for them.

Want to have credibility as watchdogs of the environment? Clean up your fucking mess before you leave!

As the co-founder of GreenPeace warns us, it is not about the environment, but advancing Communism/Socialism...

They weren't protesting pollution, they were protesting progress of which the oil is merely a symbol; like so any mass movements before, this mentality includes a strong back-to-nature component.

 

[toeskr]

While I may have sympathy for the various environmental causes these folks are protesting, when they leave a mess of the magnitude that I understand they have I begin to lose respect for them.

Want to have credibility as watchdogs of the environment? Clean up your fucking mess before you leave!

Amen. You can't " potentially " pollute our rivers or lands but it is ok for us to do it in reality.
Kind of like the little tree hugger college kid protesting logging while holding 700 or so paper copies of their message on the evils of such. But I am sure he wipes with plastic or chicken feathers.