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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Is that Washington DC after the last big liberal protest? Because that is what it looks like after the liberal protests I have seen.
Filthy pigs, all.
Italians everywhere are sad...:)
Kills the germs.
Weren’t the railroads behind all this?
Not hard to figure out they most likely burnt themselves while setting fire to the place.
LOL, priceless !
Damn! Did no ONE drink the kool-aid? So many lost opportunities.
I’m sure the media will be showing the damage done by the eco-warriors /s
Yup. I would have snipers on patrol doing what they do best. Buzzards gotta eat too. It’s good for the ecology and the food chain.
“Spontaneous protesters” do not have the resources to just throw away gasoline generators.
Only activists hired by moneyed interests do.
Interesting
Generators, even mil surplus, and especially modern Coleman, Honda or knockoff chinee make generators— they are not inexpensive. Who could afford to “throw them away”. A suggestion to the clean up people is to put them into a recycling center, preferably one that is an engine repair training center, so they can be checked out and sold by the State to cover costs. Honestly- an Onan/Cummins gas RV Microquiet 2800W generator is around 3K even used. This is incredible— these were wealthy “earthers”?
But what about the air pollution caused by their fires..it seems to me that they should have trucked ALL their garbage out of the area......but, as usual,the leftist nonsense results in exactly what they supposedly oppose.
The Brownshirts of old!!! Warren Buffet should be forced to pay the cleanup bill!!! Nothing but liberal pigs and assclowns.
Probably a few lunatic moonbats mixed in there. What losers!
Sacred ground.
A star from the big dipper fell to earth and where it landed is where human kind, water and so forth started. The pipeline runs through it and where (allegedly) many burial grounds are
The land today is private land, not on the res. However, as the person leading the discussion said many times 1)all land is Indigenous land and not owned by any one but all "peoples, and 2)"we are no longer going to assimilate with the white man".
There are other pipelines that ran through the state, why are they not considered sacred ground?
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