Red Alert Politics:
Environmentalists have a bit of a problem when it comes to practicing what they preach.
According to a North Dakota Fox affiliate, the North Dakota Access Pipeline protesters left enough trash to fill 250 trucks. The same protesters who stood their ground in Standing Rock to prevent the final 1.5 miles of a 1,700-mile pipeline from being built have become the thing they hate: polluters.
“Standing Rock Environmental Protection Agency and Dakota Sanitation are working together to try and advert an environmental tragedy,” says Tom Doering, Morton County Emergency Manager. “There’s a lot of work to be done.”
Cleanup efforts have been stymied by the weather where trash has been frozen creating “massive chunks of junk.”
The Army Corps. of Engineers have closed the 50-acres of once pristine land where grass has been removed or destroyed. “The unauthorized placement of structures, vehicles, personal property, and fires” have created soil erosion from a lack of vegetation. If the trash remains, a spring flood could send toxic sludge into the neighboring Cannonball River and Lake Oahe. These are the same bodies of water that NoDAPL protesters argued the pipeline would pollute.
Read more at http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/02/12/leftist-trash-pipeline-protestors-cause-environmental-tragedy/#xZKEhIpcjCLBHRYp.99
Just like they do on Earthday their favorite time of the year when they run around dressed as trees,flowers,spotted owls,monkeys,rats,whals,dolphins and fish and make total fools of themselves while demanding a end to fracking and pipelines i sure hope those KEEP IT IN THE GROUND nit-wits see this and see what they think of their eco-freak zeros
The pipelines in question pose clear risks to vital water resources. Contamination of the nation’s surface waters and aquifers is about as serious as persistent, potentially irremediable threats come. The potential danger is right up there with nuclear accidents, though less dramatic and sudden. Screw up our water resources with contaminants, and this nation is done. Water is life, not oil or money.
The Native American protesters take that threat very seriously and very personally. There’s a genuine spiritual dimension to their perception of that threat that involves a traditional understanding of the sacredness of the earth—a thing lost on our shallow, materialistic, increasingly f-cked up Western culture—as well as the totally practical dimension that anyone with a brain and a modicum of science education should share. Their winter protests in defense of the land, which have involved enormous hardships, discomforts, and often personal danger, have been nothing if not totally authentic and completely sincere.
These are the people you choose to disparage and belittle?
Greg it sound like you belong to that eco-idiot group GREENPEACE a typical liberal ignorant enviromentalists tree hugger and granola bar muncher
@Greg: “The pipelines in question pose clear risks to vital water resources.” According to who? The EPA? After their Animas River debacle, they don’t have a lot of credibility. And as to “our shallow, materialistic, increasingly f-cked up Western culture”, if it’s a problem for you stop taking advantage of it.
The EPA didn’t create the toxic waste that contaminated the Animas River, did it? The EPA got stuck with charge of a small lake of highly contaminated water left behind by the Gold King mine after Colorado’s Division of Reclamation Mining and Safety asked the EPA to deal with it. The EPA had attempted earlier to make the area a Superfund cleanup site, but their efforts were blocked by local residents who were worried that the designation might adversely affect the area’s reputation and discourage tourism.
As usual, the right is shifting blame for someone else’s negligence to the agency trying to deal with the consequences.
@Greg: Greg do you know how many pipelines are in the US?https://rextag.com/gis
Most very close or under some source of water the point of the post is leftists are pigs, self centered swine. Look at the mess they left behind they have no real respect for land water or air.