North Dakota offers protesters free rides home, food, hotels as evacuation deadline looms

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Washington Times:

Short of packing the protesters’ bags, North Dakota is doing everything it can to convince the remaining Dakota Access oil pipeline activists to meet Wednesday’s evacuation deadline with free bus tickets, food, hotel rooms and taxi rides.

 

The state, which has already spent $33 million on law enforcement and other costs associated with the 6-month-old protest, has established a travel-assistance center, a free service to “provide protesters with support as they prepare for their return home.”

 

“The transportation assistance center will offer personal kits, water and snacks, health/wellness assessments, bus far for a return trip home, a food voucher, hotel lodging for one night, and a taxi voucher to the bus terminal,” the North Dakota Joint Information Center said in a Tuesday statement.

 

“Transportation will be provided from the protest camps to the assistance center,” the center said.

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Two children burned after Dakota Access protesters set 20 fires during evacuation

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/22/dakota-access-protesters-set-20-fires-during-evacu/

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Dakota Access Protesters Leave Abandoned, Frost-Bitten Dogs
Anti-pipeline activists who left 2,500 garbage trucks of waste also left helpless animals
Edmund Kozak

28 Feb 2017

 

Dakota Access Pipeline protesters who caused an environmental catastrophe at the Oceti Sakowin protest site left more than heaps of human waste, garbage, and petroleum-leaking vehicles. They also abandoned poor, defenseless puppies.

 

A total of two dogs and six puppies were found abandoned at the site and rescued by local nonprofit Furry Friends Rockin’ Rescue, local news reported on Saturday.

 

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There could be more animals at the site in need of rescue, too. The organization is set to return to the camp to catch animals who are being frightened by the sounds of the heavy machinery, which is being used to clean the area of the waste left by so-called environmental protesters.

 

“It’s a mess down there, so it’s really, really hard to find these animals and get them,” said volunteer Julie Schirado.

 

The two dogs the group rescued reportedly show signs of exposure to the brutal North Dakotan cold, with frost-bitten ears and mangy fur.

 

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If I may Quote My Dad..."Horse Whippins To good For Them."

 

 

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Court slams Sioux tribe's religious claims in effort to block Dakota Access

 

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/court-slams-tribes-religious-claims-in-effort-to-block-dakota-access/article/2616720