North Dakota officials hope to quell pipeline protests with fines

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

North Dakota officials on Tuesday moved to block supplies from reaching oil pipeline protesters at a camp near the construction site, threatening to use hefty fines to keep demonstrators from receiving such critical supplies as food, building materials and even portable bathrooms.

Activists have spent months protesting plans to route the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying the project poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites.

State officials said on Tuesday they would fine anyone bringing prohibited items into the main protest camp following Governor Jack Dalrymple's "emergency evacuation" order on Monday. Earlier, officials had warned of a physical blockade, but the governor's office backed away from that.

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Officers will stop vehicles they believe are headed to the camp and inform drivers they are committing an infraction and could be fined $1,000.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-north-dakota-pipeline-idUSKBN13O2FD

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COMMODITIES | Tue Nov 29, 2016 | 7:55pm EST
By Terray Sylvester | CANNON BALL, N.D.

[Liberty Belle]

1. Someone start a GoFundMe site to pay their fines please.

[blm]

2. This is to keep the 2000 veterans away who were set to show up on Dec 4.

I wished they had planned an earlier date. The 4th seems so far away right now.

[sagetea]

3. Nor been so public about it...

Yikes!

ho'
sage

[Equinox Moon]

4. Yep. Too much pre-chatter.

[DK504]

9. Bust down those lines.

These vets should bust through any attempt to stop them. 'Casue the whole thing they and their friends have been forever changed by fightening wars for these war profiteers.

Fuck these these guys, they are the criminals.

[turbinetree]

5. Alrighty the fascists governor of the state along side with the cronies

if anyone tries to drive on a road that is paid for with tax dollars, can't, how f***ing convenient.

Hey governor FU, what is your definition of "prohibited items" and where does it say in the constitution that you can prohibit freedom of assembly?

Think I will send some more money to Winona LaDuke

http://www.honorearth.org/

[LarryNM]

6. Economic Terrorism n/t

[Feeling the Bern]

7. 8th amendment violation. . .I'd even claim bill of attainder since the law is being used to target

one group of people. ND loves its Republican fascists though.

[pinboy3niner]

8. Ostensibly to protect the health and safety of the campers in winter

The rationales given by the Corps for its closure order and the Governor for his emergency order are transparent and ludicrous. The objective is to stop the protest and squelch dissent. The oil must flow!