Posted on 09/26/2017 10:05:19 AM PDT by bananaman22
The months-long protests against the construction of a section of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline will cost the state of North Dakota around US$39 million, after the state’s Emergency Commission voted to borrow an additional US$5 million to pay for policing services provided by as many as 11 other states—and taxpayers may likely be paying the tab.
The Commission also accepted a US$10-million grant offered by the Justice Department to cover some of the law enforcement costs associated with the protests, which failed to stop the construction of the US$3.8-billion infrastructure built by Energy Transfer Partners to carry Bakken crude to Illinois.
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So sounds like they need to collect a lot of fees after a lot of arrests, prosecutions and big fines.
Exactly true !
Fine the arrested individuals,
and especially fine the organizations which promoted the protests.
It’s my understanding tickets for littering would be astronomical.
Any dope who's got time to stand out in the middle of no-where to protest something that has no impact on your life for reasons you don't fully understand, is unlikely to have any money.
Not to mention the mountains of trash and human waste they left behind.
Including from the para-terrorist, ecco-nut groups who were behind a lot of the protests (and I’m sure George Soros had a hand in it somewhere down the line)...
Oh yeah imagine the money saved by thousand hour community service sentences.
Soros ... go after him. And for any organization that he sponsors that sponsored these protests. Use RICO and collect treble damages.
So how much of that is for cleaning up the hippies’ hideous messes that they left behind?
Why not go After Big Environmentalist for orchestrating this illegal occupation in the first place??
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