The Dakota Access Pipeline cleanup has been completed.
A total of 835 industrial-sized trash bins were filled and removed by the Army Corps of Engineers. Daily Caller said they filled up bins with 8,170 cubic yards of garbage and debris which comes to roughly 11,438 tons. The final cost to the taxpayers will come to more than $1.1 million.
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Cleaning Out Dakota Protest CampWe Need to Save the Environment…
From Standing Rock Protestershttps://t.co/urGXrAhGHA
via @amyrsisk pic.twitter.com/GR9Uv2eKmE— Tim Gradous (@tgradous) February 23, 2017
There was a rush to remove the trash the environmental purists left behind before the spring thaw when it would become toxic.
They left behind enough trash, in other words, to create an environmental crisis.
“Standing Rock Environmental Protection Agency and Dakota Sanitation are working together to try and advert an environmental tragedy,” said Tom Doering, Morton County Emergency Manager back in February. It took time because, in addition to the mountains of filth these people left, authorities had to check for dead bodies and evidence of crimes.
Protecting the Dakota Access Pipeline has already cost $3.5 million.
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They abandoned a number of dogs, 4 found in the last week alone.
To further agitate the dirty environmentalists, the oil will start flowing as early as next week.
$1.1 million of taxes spent to clean up the mess left behind by pipeline protesters pic.twitter.com/XiLos4S3qx
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) March 14, 2017
The cleanup began the first week of February after the last of the so-called protesters were cleared out.
What environmentalists? Pipeline protesters left heaps of trash at Standing Rock that threaten polluting the river they tried to protect! pic.twitter.com/vAvIPaOAYD
— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) February 8, 2017
There was a lot of debris from fires the protesters deliberately and proudly set to their makeshift shelters.
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