Posted on 02/22/2017 2:05:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
CANNON BALL, N.D – After seven months of protests, beating drums, freezing nights and canned chili, police shut down campsites once occupied by tens of thousands of environmentalists and Native Americans fighting the North Dakota Access Pipeline project.
At least one person was injured Wednesday after protesters set fire to a handful of wooden structures at the makeshift campsite.
Cecily Fong, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Emergency Services, says the extent of the unidentified female's injuries weren't known. Fong said an ambulance was being sent to the encampment.
Most of the 200 to 300 protesters who remained at the encampment walked out around 1 p.m. That was about an hour ahead of a deadline set by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the camp to close ahead of a spring flooding threat.
The protesters, who came to the rolling hills of North Dakota from around the world to rally against a 1,100-mile oil pipeline, made their point. Their protest prompted then-President Barack Obama to halt construction, forcing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to review the project’s environmental assessment.
But their victory turned to defeat with the election of Donald Trump, who reversed the decision. Last month, the Corps issued the final easement, allowing Energy Transfer Partners to initiate drilling under the Missouri River. That continues today and company officials say oil could be flowing in as little as two months.
Prompted by an unusually warm winter, on Feb. 2 North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum issued an emergency order for the protestors to leave their campsites on the banks of the Cannonball River by 2 p.m. Wednesday. The campsites were built in the flood plain and the river is expected to rise another five feet by May 1.
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"What was once a bustling makeshift city is now a largely abandoned garbage pit. Teepees and yurts, thousands of sheets of plywood and tents, kerosene and propane stoves, diesel and gasoline generators, food, clothing, cars and mountains of human waste lie in what was once a pristine floodplain that abutted the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation."
Dummy leftists destroyed the environment. Sad.
Did the poop on any police cars?
The 1st amendment only protects “peaceful assembly”, not what the left has been doing.
This fiasco wasn’t about “sacred” water or the “sacred” environment. This fiasco was about Marxism and Communism.
Anyway, there is a march on Washington March 10 with a camp in on the Mall. That should be intersting.
I would be expecting sabotage..................
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Protesters did more damage to the enviornment with their trash, condoms,
maxi pads and dirty underwear, than oil ever will.
They are now worried that all this garbage will wash down their pristine and sacred streams in a few weeks when the annual floods come.
If they cared about the environment they would have not trashed the sensitive environmental area. It was to make them selves feel good, not to help the environment.
Not to mention the “slit trench” they dug which drains right into the Cannonball river.
Warren Buffet was the big financier of this movement. He wants his products moved by his railroad rather than the safer, more economical pipeline.
The protesters weren’t even from the local rez. Imported....... all of them.
RE: I infiltrated a native american presentation on this last night to learn what the issue is about from their point if view.
OK, so what was the issue? The environment? Sacred ground?
What is it?
I think the highlight of this snowflake fiasco was the picture I saw of two snowflakes sitting on the hood of their SUV holding up a sign saying, “Out Of Gas”. ROTFL. Ah, the irony of it all.
FOX was reporting this morning about the environmental damage that is going to be caused when the flooding starts and all the garbage is spread all over the countryside.
I’d suggested destruction by fire a few months ago..with 10 minutes notice.
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