Massive cleanup underway after Dakota Access protesters leave behind environmental mess

The Washington Times ^ | February 4, 2017 | Valerie Richardson

[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.

[jazusamo]

How can this be, the protesters are supposedly environmentalists?

[Steely Tom]

Something else the NYT, WP, and CNN can decline to cover.

[lee martell]

So much for the “Stewards of Mother Earth” and stuff.
I guess they don’t do windows either.

[Vendome]

Pigs...

[Fungi]

All the fanfare, yet not one picture at the link.

[jazusamo]

Exactly!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Liberals never clean up after themselves. They count on “the government” to do it for them.

[NewHampshireDuo]

The left always leaves a mess or one sort or another.

[jazusamo]

I also Googled for images and not one photo is there that I could find.

[Ann Archy]

Why the HELL isn’t it closed TODAY instead of Feb 22??? It will NOT be closed.

[manc]

you can always count on a left wing protest to leave their trash behind, and then claim they are for the environment.

[jazusamo]

Go President Trump!

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[Fungi]

Interesting.

[marktwain]

Great opportunity for a citizen journalist to go and get some photos...

[mdittmar]

It’s not brain surgery,it’s why Indian Tribes kept on the move;)

[headstamp 2]

Imagine the amount of human waste that will wash into the river.

[cloudmountain]

Ah, North Dakota, flat as a pancake with a few rolling hills.
It's 13° there right now, about 6:00 P.M. or so.

I AM tickled pink NOT to live there right now.

[Fiddlstix]

NOTE: They are burning old tires
Really great environmentalists

[jazusamo]

Here's a pic of a camp on Army Corps lands of a type that they may be referring to:

[Fungi]

How is it that Valerie Richardson did the story and not include a picture? Was it second hand info?