Cold winter menaces pipeline protest camp

[TexasTowelie]

CANNON BALL (AP) — So far, the hundreds of protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline have shrugged off the heavy snow, icy winds and frigid temperatures that have swirled around their large encampment on the North Dakota grasslands.

But if they defy next week’s government deadline to abandon the camp, demonstrators know the real deep freeze lies ahead, when the full weight of the Great Plains winter descends on their community of nylon tents and teepees. Life-threatening wind chills and towering snow drifts could mean the greatest challenge is simple survival.

“I’m scared. I’m a California girl, you know?” said Loretta Reddog of Placerville, California, a protester who said she arrived several months ago with her two dogs and has yet to adjust to the harsher climate.

The government has ordered protesters to leave federal land by Monday, although it’s not clear what, if anything, authorities will do to enforce that mandate. Demonstrators insist they will stay for as long as it takes to divert the $3.8 billion pipeline, which the Standing Rock Sioux tribe believes threatens sacred sites and a river that provides drinking water for millions of people.

Read more: http://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2016/12/cold-winter-menaces-pipeline-protest-camp/

[WhiteTara]

1. These people are true heros!

May they be safe and successful.

[2naSalit]

2. What many fail to recognize

is that the tribes have been helping to build the shelters and there are some, though made from skimpy materials are, by design, fit to weather this climate. Stayed in canvas yurts and teepees in the coldest winter and was just fine. I suspect they are fine with the shelter system they have going on. It will be bad outside but livable inside.

[Shoonra]

3. Not to worry, the Govt will provide free blankets (from typhoid and cholera wards)

As winter comes I am sure the petroleum companies and the Trump Administration will show their compassionate side and distribute to the protesters free blankets to keep them warm - blankets straight from the infirmaries of the Third World. It's an old New World tradition with Indian reservations.