What a bunch of morons. Hypocritical to the max.
http://westernwire.net/abandoned-veh...-protest-site/
http://westernwire.net/abandoned-veh...-protest-site/
Officials in North Dakota are racing against time to move hundreds of cars and trucks from the site of an anti-pipeline protest before seasonal flooding sweeps the vehicles into the Missouri River.
“There are roughly 200 vehicles down there at last count, ranging from cars and pickups to rental trucks,” George Kuntz, vice president of the North Dakota Towing Association, told Western Wire. “We’re going to have a very drastic situation trying to keep these vehicles from getting into the river – what everybody’s been trying to protect from day one,” said Kuntz, who has been working alongside federal, state and local officials on the cleanup effort.
“We can’t leave them there. We don’t know what kind of biohazard is going to be produced with all the fluids or any other garbage that’s inside the vehicle,” he said...........
Officials at the site are trying to identify how many vehicles still have owners and how many have been abandoned. “There are definitely abandoned vehicles there, but the hard part is trying to determine the count,” said Rob Keller, public information officer for the Morton County Sheriff’s Department. Two weeks ago, the number of abandoned vehicles was estimated between 50 and 75, and at least one vehicle has already been found in the water, Keller told Western Wire.
“You’ve got oil leaking out, you’ve got gas,” Keller said. Pollution from abandoned vehicles adds to already serious environmental problems left behind by the protestors, he said.
“You talk about wanting to protect the water, and yet not a lot of people are staying around to clean up what they started,” Keller said. Much of the cleanup will fall to the Standing Rock Sioux – the group that anti-oil and gas groups rallied around during the protest – and tribal officials have warned it will take weeks.
“There are roughly 200 vehicles down there at last count, ranging from cars and pickups to rental trucks,” George Kuntz, vice president of the North Dakota Towing Association, told Western Wire. “We’re going to have a very drastic situation trying to keep these vehicles from getting into the river – what everybody’s been trying to protect from day one,” said Kuntz, who has been working alongside federal, state and local officials on the cleanup effort.
“We can’t leave them there. We don’t know what kind of biohazard is going to be produced with all the fluids or any other garbage that’s inside the vehicle,” he said...........
Officials at the site are trying to identify how many vehicles still have owners and how many have been abandoned. “There are definitely abandoned vehicles there, but the hard part is trying to determine the count,” said Rob Keller, public information officer for the Morton County Sheriff’s Department. Two weeks ago, the number of abandoned vehicles was estimated between 50 and 75, and at least one vehicle has already been found in the water, Keller told Western Wire.
“You’ve got oil leaking out, you’ve got gas,” Keller said. Pollution from abandoned vehicles adds to already serious environmental problems left behind by the protestors, he said.
“You talk about wanting to protect the water, and yet not a lot of people are staying around to clean up what they started,” Keller said. Much of the cleanup will fall to the Standing Rock Sioux – the group that anti-oil and gas groups rallied around during the protest – and tribal officials have warned it will take weeks.
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