Posted on 02/07/2017 6:15:00 AM PST by VitacoreVision
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last Friday that the site that protesters have occupied near the Dakota Access pipeline will be closed on February 22 to “prevent injuries and significant environmental damage in the likely event of flooding in this area. Without proper remediation, debris, trash and untreated waste will wash into the Cannonball River and Lake Oahe.”
The cleanup started a week ago, involving volunteers from one of the activist groups responsible for the mess, the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, along with officials from nearby Cannonball. So much trash has accumulated since the first protesters arrived last August that front-end loaders, dump trucks, and skid-steer loaders were brought in to remove it. Thunder Valley’s executive director estimated that “we’ll be here eight to 10 hours a day, all week.”
The governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, warned that “it is paramount for public safety, and to prevent an environmental disaster, that the camps be cleared prior to a potential spring flood," adding that the cleanup is “an important step toward addressing the safety and environmental risks posed by imminent flooding.”
The governor failed to note that so much trash and human waste had accumulated that the cleanup is expected to take weeks. Once the debris has been cleared, an environmental cleanup will follow. Even Dave Archambault, tribal chairman for the Standing Rock Sioux and a leader in the protest movement, was astonished at just how much trash, garbage, rotting food, tents, teepees, sleeping bags, blankets, canned goods (open and sealed), food, equipment, human excrement, and even dozens of automobiles had been left behind: “There’s more than anticipated, and it’s under a lot of snow. I wouldn’t say it’s going to get done in days; it’s going to take weeks.”
Most of the cost will be borne by the tribe, which has received an estimated $6 million in donations from those supporting the protesters. The balance will be provided by volunteers from nearby Cannonball, and local health and environmental agencies supported by local taxpayers. So far the tribe hasn’t asked the state for any financial assistance.
The mounds of trash left behind by the protesters are in danger of polluting the very environment they said they cherished. Scott Davis, North Dakota’s commissioner for Indian Affairs, obliquely noted the hypocrisy: “It’s unfortunate,” he said. “That just goes against what they’re fighting against ... leaving that stuff and abandoning it ... obviously [endangering] the environment and the river.”
Adding to the staggering hypocrisy, the few hundred remaining of the estimated 10,000 protesters who came and went during the protests resisted the cleanup, blocking Highway 1806 leading into and out of the protest area and preventing the dump trucks from entering or exiting. Morton County emergency manager Tom Doering somehow hid his frustration when he closed the highway until the protesters could be removed: “It just wasn’t safe, given that they had blocked the road. It was doubtful that they were going to let the trucks in, and then the operation pretty much took all day to evict the protesters.” Seventy-six of them were arrested.
The camp is close to where the Cannonball River flows into the Missouri River, which is a water source for millions of people downstream, including the Sioux Indian tribe. Thousands have camped there since August to protest a pipeline that they worry will threaten drinking water and Native American burial sites.
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Remember the mound of human excrement at zucotti park from occupy Wall Street?
Seems nobody learned from that.
To repeat that old phrase, “what your doing is so loud I can’t hear what you are saying.”
They did learn something though. They learned that when they mess something up, someone else will bear the cost and the effort to clean that mess up. No skin off their noses.
Need pictures
If the North Dakotans have the protestor’s names, file in small claims court for $$$. These people will not show up.
At least, get a civil judgment on their record.
It is all about the “long haul”, according to Mayor Immanuel.
Nothing personal but try to control the size of your images. Add a height=300 to your image tag. example:< img src="http://loneprairie.net/images/nodapl/enviromeme.jpg" height=300 >
True enough.
They have that three-year old termagant mentality.
These idiot Leftists did more damage to the water way than the pipeline would ever have done. If there is a leak in a pipeline, the experts come in and handle it in short order. Having months of human feces washing into the water is definitely a greater risk to health and safety.
They’re called “Hippie Crits”.
Nothing personal but my eyes are not what they used to be, so the larger size was really convenient, especially on a larger monitor.
Gee wonder if the lame stream media will report about this near environmental disaster? The Women’s pussy march similarly left piles of garbage in Washington, but I remember that a large Tea Party rally in DC astounded officials who found the mall actually cleaner after the rally.
Post #5 fits my tablet screen just fine, thanks.
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I guess in their logic, latrines would have hurt mother earth more than crapping on a floodplain?
I remember when they were complaining about the latrines that the protesters in Malheur National Wildlife in Oregon.
I remember the shock of these environmentalists about them digging holes.
In the early ‘70s, they started a commercialon TV aimed at keeping the environment clean. An old Indian man, surveying a scene that used to be pristine, he notices empty bottles, cans and wrappers strewn about, and, without a word, the wizened old tribal elder’s sad face yields a single tear.
Message received.
I, however, saw it with a jaundiced eye. Living since childhood right next to a modern-day Indian reservation, with forests as far as the eye can see, I grew up exploring and rockhounding within 6-8 miles of our little ranch. Had to cross the rez fence. I felt like I was exploring as much as Jeremiah Johnson had.
Reaching adulthood, I began to notice old mobile homes were being towed onto my old stomping grounds (within their rights, of course). The natives were moving close to our off-rez town to get away from the lousy rez schools so their kids could go to the white community’s very good schools. Not long afterward, I began to notice little ravines being filled up with garbage — unrelenting, unmoving garbage. So much for the noble, teary-eyed native.
WHERE ARE THE PICTURES .. WE NEED PICTURES TO SEND TO OUR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS .. SO THEY KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PROTESTORS.
“No skin off their nose”
However, it will sting a lot when they have a civil judgement against them. It follows you FOR LIFE.
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