Posted on 03/23/2017 7:46:43 AM PDT by rktman
The company which built the Dakota Access Pipeline says there have been “recent coordinated physical attacks” on the completed pipeline which is ready to begin delivering oil this week. At least two attacks taken place within the past month. Last week, someone took a blowtorch to an above-ground section of the pipeline in South Dakota. From the Duluth News Tribune:
In South Dakota, authorities received a report on March 17 that someone burned a hole through an above-ground section of an oil pipeline at a valve site just south of Sioux Falls, according to Chief Deputy Chad Brown of the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office.
A torch may have been used to create the hole, causing about $30,000 to $60,000 in damage, Brown said. No suspects had been identified, Brown said. The incident occurred between March 15 and March 17, Brown said.
Because most of the pipeline is buried, the above-ground shut-off valves are the most easily accessible portions of the pipeline. A very similar attack took place earlier this month in Iowa. From the Des Moines Register:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
During WWII it was called SABOTAGE and was punishable by death!
These things should have electric fences all around. I was afraid of this.
Looks like ELF is still alive and well.
A spin-off of the Sierra Club and not afraid to destroy private property and kill people to save the planet.
Scorched-earth tactics - literally.
Shoot them dead.
Liberal logic.
“During WWII it was called SABOTAGE and was punishable by death!”.....
No sense in waiting for another World War, just DO IT! Catch the bastards and light them up in “ol’ Sparky”
and should be!
....and cameras patrols and drones.
These are ten-year offenses if the perp is caught.
Maybe next time they will pressurize the line with Natural Gas for testing purposes. Can’t wait to that guy with a Torch burn a Big Hole.
....and cameras patrols and drones.
= = = = = = = = = =
Make that ARMED drones, a few well placed ‘Warthogs’ and a generous amount of ‘Snoopys’ or ‘Puff- the Magic Dragons’
At least put a little ‘adventure’ in the lives of these clowns...
I’m hoping Darryl Hannah chains herself to one of the above-ground valves. She lasted three weeks when she chained herself to a walnut tree about 10 years ago, and it was great fun to watch!
Haven’t heard much from her, since. It’s time to re-spark her, ‘career!’
*SMIRK*
Yeah, well now they’ll make the cover of ‘time’ as heroes of the environment. Yeah, that’s how stupid it’s gotten.
Trained snipers would be much more cost effective and a much stronger deterrent.
If it costs $30K to $60K to repair such damage, would it not be cheaper to hire security or to build some sort of electrified cage around the above-ground sections?
Thanks for providing ELF - Sierra Club linkage / mentality.
Here’s more detail:
https://www.activistfacts.com/organizations/271-earth-first/
RE:
“Looks like ELF is still alive and well.
A spin-off of the Sierra Club and not afraid to destroy private property and kill people to save the planet.”
These evironuts are so concerned about the earth that they are willing to destroy it in order to save it.
More work of the left wing Nazi storm troopers.
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