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Massive cleanup underway after Dakota Access protesters leave behind environmental mess
The Washington Times ^ | February 4, 2017 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 02/05/2017 3:44:09 PM PST by jazusamo

Clean-up crews are racing to clear acres of debris at the largest Dakota Access protest camp before the spring thaw turns the snowy, trash-covered plains into an environmental disaster area.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Friday that the camp, located on federal land, would be closed Feb. 22 in order to “prevent injuries and significant environmental damage in the likely event of flooding in this area” at the mouth of the Cannonball River in North Dakota.

“Without proper remediation, debris, trash, and untreated waste will wash into the Cannonball River and Lake Oahe,” the Corps said in its statement.

Those involved in the clean-up effort, led by the Standing Rock Sioux, say it could take weeks for private sanitation companies and volunteers to clear the expanse of abandoned tents, teepees, sleeping bags, blankets, canned food, supplies and just plain garbage littering the Oceti Sakowin camp.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: camp; cleanup; dakotaaccess; dap; environazis; environment; environmental; leftists; leftwingnuts; liberals; mess; northdakota; pipeline; protest; protesters; standingrocksioux
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To: CedarDave

drill baby drill !!!


41 posted on 02/05/2017 4:40:40 PM PST by slickdain (Make America Wealthy Again ... STOP H-1b visas!)
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To: jazusamo

No pictures? FAKE NEWS!


42 posted on 02/05/2017 4:42:23 PM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: marktwain

Needs a drone visit


43 posted on 02/05/2017 5:03:48 PM PST by piasa
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To: jazusamo

Eco-Pigs

Where Did All The Money Come From?


44 posted on 02/05/2017 5:15:32 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: jazusamo
Those involved in the clean-up effort, led by the Standing Rock Sioux, say it could take weeks for private sanitation companies and volunteers to clear the expanse of abandoned tents, teepees, sleeping bags, blankets, canned food, supplies and just plain garbage littering the Oceti Sakowin camp.


These Sioux have surely come a long way from being noble Indian warriors to becoming pouters and defilers of Mother Earth!
45 posted on 02/05/2017 5:19:47 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( Agenda driven news is fake news.)
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To: jazusamo


46 posted on 02/05/2017 5:22:08 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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47 posted on 02/05/2017 5:25:43 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: jazusamo
Low impact camping is something libtards don't understand.
48 posted on 02/05/2017 5:39:56 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Without proper remediation, debris, trash, and untreated waste will wash into the Cannonball River and Lake Oahe,” the Corps said in its statement.”

The stated purpose of the protest was the assertion that the pipeline crosses the Missouri River, which supplies water to the reservation, and they were worried about a spill contaminating their drinking water.

Libs don’t get the concept of irony, do they?


49 posted on 02/05/2017 5:45:12 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: vetvetdoug

Yep, I hunted and camped for many years and always left the area as clean or cleaner than it was before I arrived.


50 posted on 02/05/2017 5:54:00 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: jazusamo

Log everyone leaving, including those arrested earlier, and send them collectively a bill. If the group can’t come up with the total, subpoena all of their financial data to find our who’s been financing their occupations (Steyner?) and send them the bill, ideally with a RICO tripling.


51 posted on 02/05/2017 5:56:37 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Waiting for the tweets to hatch!)
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To: TADSLOS
These liberal pigs leave their garbage and trash behind them everywhere they go.

Then they lecture the rest of the country on the ecology.

Remember the piles of trash they left at the 2008 Obama inauguration?

Then the Occupy Wall Street movement trashed the area they occupied in NY City.

And just two weeks ago the Women's March on Washington left their piles of trash for others to clean up.


52 posted on 02/05/2017 6:00:11 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Many Indians were superb warriors.

Noble... not so much.

The idea of the “noble savage” is a myth.

Indians could not afford cleanup and being environmentally sensitive. They lived in a feast or famine environment. Many dies of famine in the winter.

If your read actual accounts of most Indian tribes, life was hard, brutal, and short.


53 posted on 02/05/2017 6:00:42 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: shibumi

So, like an underground pipeline is going to hurt that area.


54 posted on 02/05/2017 6:03:04 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Iron Munro

Being responsible means being conservative. The left doesn’t have or want that yoke applied to them.


55 posted on 02/05/2017 6:13:38 PM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I doubt that anybody left their own sleeping bags and tents there.

Which - proves that these types of protests are funded by well-organized and wealthy outside agitators.


56 posted on 02/05/2017 6:22:32 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: arthurus

I looked at the article, the story has been around for a couple days. Interestingly, she’s married to a special forces officer. Got a feeling this guys career is over.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3520951/posts


57 posted on 02/05/2017 6:31:12 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: jazusamo

They were filthy whores on their first/best day......


58 posted on 02/05/2017 6:44:57 PM PST by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW...)
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To: Fungi

Google: Dakota Access garbage
Click on images. You will see photos. Kind of hard to tell the trash from the protestors camp site.


59 posted on 02/05/2017 9:09:51 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: 21twelve
Which - proves that these types of protests are funded by well-organized and wealthy outside agitators.

George "Spooky Dude" Soros, et al.

60 posted on 02/06/2017 3:08:34 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Life was so much better before Hart-Cellar.)
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