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New York Times reporter shows just how massive the Standing Rock protest camp is
The camp housing protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline have come to resemble a small city with “streets” crisscrossing the prairie between the tents, teepees, and quickly-erected shacks where the protestors have dug themselves in, according to photos and videos posted by reporters on the ground.
Thousands of protesters have gathered in Cannon Ball, North Dakota since August to protest the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a proposed 1,172-mile pipeline enabling North Dakota-produced oil reach refining markets in Illinois.
USA Today estimates that there are between 1,000 and 3,000 protestors living in the camp. Another 2,000 veterans are set to join the protestors, as well as relieve those who have endured weeks of sub-zero temperatures.
Here’s New York Times reporter Jack Healy’s video from the camp:
The “streets” are a grid of ice. Sounds of generators, drumming, chainsaws. Parades of arriving cars adding to thousands already here. pic.twitter.com/mkufx0jpKq
— jack healy (@jackhealyNYT) December 2, 2016
The federal government announced in November that they would close public access to the area on December 5, but authorities have since said they don’t have plans to forcibly remove activists.
While the protests have mostly been peaceful, there’s been clashes with local police and authorities on a number of occassions. In late November, police sprayed water cannons on protesters and deployed tear gas cannisters in below-freezing temperatures. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said in a press conference that the water cannon was used to “repel” protest activities when demonstrators became “aggressive.” Activists maintain they were peacefully demonstrating at the time.
The protests began because the pipeline is set to run beneath the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota. The protestors’ chief concern, beyond fossil fuel emissions, is that the pipeline may contaminate drinking water and habitats across the entire Missouri River basin.
Here’s New York Times reporter Jack Healy’s view from on the ground:
It’s 28 degrees at the Oceti Sakowin camp, and pipeline opponents are building yurts, huts, insulated lodges and hunkering down for winter pic.twitter.com/TWUCmUYSQW
— jack healy (@jackhealyNYT) December 2, 2016
Cusi Ballew, a Potawatomi member from southern Ohio (“I’m the whitest person in my family”) builds a bunkhouse for the winter. pic.twitter.com/dBeTxNGcwT
— jack healy (@jackhealyNYT) December 2, 2016
This is Ron King Williamson, 22, from the Crow Reservation in Montana. He and these kids were blazing down an icy hill on their sleds. pic.twitter.com/NDSnX4jh1t
— jack healy (@jackhealyNYT) December 2, 2016
6 Comments on "New York Times reporter shows just how massive the Standing Rock protest camp is"
Coffeeguyzz on Sun, 4th Dec 2016 1:22 pm
The sentence at the end of this post … pipeline set to run beneath the reservation … is just more of the numerous innacuracies that continue to inflame this situation.
The Obama-appointed judge, Boasberg, released a 58 page decision that expressed great empathy for the plight of the Sioux while ruling against them.
His decision was upheld by an appellate review.
The DAPL ALREDY crosses the MIssouri upstream, just 14 miles above the Water intake for Williston.
These protectors are PROHIBETED from encamping on the reservation itself by the SRS officials, which is one reason they are on ACE ground.
Water protectors? The fecal waste currently being deposited/buried in the area is, according to the chief, endangering the river as it is in a flood zone.
Next month, completely unrelated to the current situation, the reservation will have a new water intake/filtering/pumping installation located 70 miles downstream.
This pipeline WILL be completed and in service in a few months’ time.
The long lasting animosity directed at the SRS by the locals who well recognize the extortionate scam that has always underlined this matter will be a major legacy of this event.
Sissyfuss on Sun, 4th Dec 2016 6:19 pm
Wow,Factfreeguise. Thanks for the corporate perspective from the Ecos destroying scuzzbags. With buttheads like you fighting for the American way there should be no problem keeping the cancer spreading.
Apneaman on Sun, 4th Dec 2016 6:48 pm
Hey Coffeeguyzz how do ya like it now? Bahahahahahahaha…LMAO.
Army denies Dakota pipeline permit, in victory for Native tribes
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-dakota-pipeline-idUSKBN13T0QX?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews
Don’t you cancer cheerleaders get too upset and go away crying now. If the Cancer can’t infect a particular patch of healthy tissue because it’s immune defenses are to strong, it just moves along to the adjoining health tissue and infects that. It keeps spreading until the host, which gives it is life, is dead. The human cancer has infected enough healthy tissue already that a terminal diagnosis is a given. Just waiting on the inertia. More growth will bring it on all the quicker.
jjhman on Sun, 4th Dec 2016 9:16 pm
This pretty much says it all:
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
Red Cloud
R1verat on Mon, 5th Dec 2016 9:12 am
I was there & there are numerous porta potties. No one is dumping affluent into the river fool!
mx on Mon, 5th Dec 2016 9:40 pm
R1verat, come on, don’t destroy a good lie.