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:
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Our infrastructure is vary vulnerable to these types of attacks pipe lines and power lines run through remote areas.
Any body with a 4x4 or ATV can easily get out of sight of a public road and do damage with out interference. Let alone if they want to walk a little bit.
Equipment to attack is easily had and not that expensive. to obtain.
Utilities have been loathed to spend money on security hardware or personnel.
How funny...I’m not afraid to kill environmentalist wackos if they threaten the life of me or someone I care about.
And I’m a way better shot.
America has become a real crap house of some dumb rotten people and most are just criminals. And most are communists Democrats. Sierra Club is nothing but liberal jackasses that self interest is the only policy.
I’m with you. Shoot the a**holes.
this is like the anti fraking fake documentary that added flammable liquid to water to make it look like water pipers were flammable.
NBC putting in flares on gas tanks to make trucks look unsafe.
cold war commies complaining about everything,...
Send ‘em to jail with no bail.
Kind of like an episode of “Longmire” where Indian Cartel hasn’t been bribed as much as they want.
LOL! Yeah, I’m still wonderin’ which tribal head didn’t get the wampum thought worthy of ending the protests. Well, they ended anyway with a million plus in clean up costs (those wacky enviros) and, I think I read, 12 dogs left abandoned. (Those wacky peta clowns.) Nice goin’ ecowankers.
There is no downside for these perps. Until there is, it won’t stop.
Let them use a cutting torch on a line that is under pressure and in operation and they will get a nasty surprise . . . and there will be a few less enviro-wackos!
“....was punishable by death!”
Wouldn't help. Electric fences easily shut down or bypassed. Routine random drone surveillance with human monitoring is more secure.
Well alrighty then........shoot to kill!........;)
That’s what I said to a fellow freeper........shoot to kill and MEAN it.........;)
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