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.
“It’s unfortunate. Again, that just goes against what they’re fighting against, is leaving that stuff and abandoning it and obviously the environment the river,” Scott Davis, North Dakota Commissioner for Indian Affairs, told KFYR-TV in Bismarck.
Local media outlets posted video and photos of Bobcat bulldozers pushing mounds of debris and snow to be deposited into massive Dumpsters and hauled to the Bismarck landfill.
Top Gun wrote:Yes this is clearly every bit as bad as building oil pipelines near sensitive areas because TB is the absolute master of false equivalence.
So being natural hypocrites, the protesters are off the hook bearing no responsibility for the damage they caused the environment.
. "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"- Mao Zedong
Meanwhile, in Moscow....
The last three years the Moscow Oil Refinery at night regularly emits carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide, which is almost impossible to breathe in the street. Recently allowable concentration of harmful substances in the atmosphere of the city was exceeded 27 times. But the authorities are constantly lying, that there is nothing wrong, this is somewhere it burns dump or that burned some wood residues or any other nonsense
Top Gun wrote:Yes this is clearly every bit as bad as building oil pipelines near sensitive areas because TB is the absolute master of false equivalence.
So being natural hypocrites, the protesters are off the hook bearing no responsibility for the damage they caused the environment.
Also the master of putting words in people's mouths!
Top Gun wrote:Yes this is clearly every bit as bad as building oil pipelines near sensitive areas because TB is the absolute master of false equivalence.
So being natural hypocrites, the protesters are off the hook bearing no responsibility for the damage they caused the environment.
Also the master of putting words in people's mouths!
