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Sanitation crews are working hard to dispose of six months' worth of garbage from a community the size of Wahpeton or Valley City. The mountains of debris need to be moved before the spring thaw occurs.
Making a dent in the immense amount of trash being hauled out of the Oceti Sakowin protest camp is being hindered by the weather. All the garbage that was left behind is now frozen into massive chunks of junk.
In a month, all this trash could become toxic.
[...] It's estimated it will take 250 trucks filled with litter to clear the camp.
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Sanitation Crews Remove Frozen Garbage From DAPL Protest Camp Before Spring Thaw
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @05:26AM
If the pipeline leaks it won't be 250 truckloads of trash, it will be majorly worse. This is a diversion from the real risk. Expect more and more of these kinds of smokescreens from the Trump admin and/or fossil fuel companies.
As someone else noted here the other day, why isn't this pipeline double wall or installed in a sealed tunnel that would act as containment in case of a leak?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @05:39AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @10:09AM
Because sometimes the pilots have to go to the loo.
You're too scared. You should try living sometime.
(Score: 1) by boxfetish on Friday February 10 2017, @03:15AM
Clearly, we solve our hijacking problem by redirecting attention to how big of a mess is left behind whenever passengers disembark from a flight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @06:09AM
That ship sailed *LONG* ago.
The two pipelines in question were opposed not because it is a bad idea. But because Buffet and Gates apparently need more money and called up the big O and he did them a solid.
http://www.pipeline101.org/where-are-pipelines-located [pipeline101.org]
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @08:33AM
What? There's nothing about Jimmy Buffett on that page.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @07:45AM
Let's see how robust this pipeline is after a few fracking-induced earthquakes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @07:54AM
All pipelines have this issue. We have thousands of miles of NG, gas, and oil piplines already. They have ways of dealing with that exact thing. They may have an idea or two on how to do it. Now it is just a mater of will they do it.
If you want to poke some holes in a pipe line look to Elon Musks hyperloop. THAT has some serious engineering challenges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 09 2017, @08:54AM
Catastrophic failure of a tunnel verses catastrophic failure of an unrefined fuel line. Hmm I'd say the former would be mostly civil cost, where as the latter is an environmental one. I'd take the former any day.