Dakota Access protesters claim responsibility for pipeline sabotage
Two Iowa activists with a history of arrests for political dissent are claiming responsibility for repeatedly damaging the Dakota Access Pipeline while the four-state, $3.8 billion project was under construction in Iowa.
Jessica Reznicek, 35, and Ruby Montoya, 27, both of Des Moines, held a news conference Monday outside the Iowa Utilities Board’s offices where they provided a detailed description of their deliberate efforts to stop the pipeline's completion. They were taken into custody by state troopers immediately afterward when they abruptly began using a crowbar and a hammer to damage a sign on state property.
Both women are involved in Iowa’s Catholic Worker social justice movement and they described their pipeline sabotage as a "direct action" campaign that began on Election Day 2016. They said their first incident of destruction involved burning at least five pieces of heavy equipment on the pipeline route in northwest Iowa's Buena Vista County.
Jessica Reznicek, left, and Ruby Montoya, right, admit to previously vandalizing Dakota Access equipment infront of the Iowa Utilities Board on Monday, July 24, 2017 in Des Moines. The pair finished their statement and then pried off letters from the sign before being arrested by the Iowa State Patrol. Brian Powers/The Register
"The Dakota Access Pipeline is an issue that affects this entire nation and the people that are subject to its rule," Reznicek said. "With DAPL, we have seen incredible issues regarding the rule of law, indigenous sovereignty, land seizures, state-sanctioned brutality, as well as corporate protections and pardons for their wrongdoings. To all those that continue to be subjected to the government's injustices, we humbly stand with you, and we ask now that you stand with us."
The two women said they researched how to pierce the steel pipe used for the pipeline and in March they began using oxyacetylene cutting torches to damage exposed, empty pipeline valves. They said they started deliberately vandalizing the pipeline in southeast Iowa's Mahaska County, delaying completion for weeks.
Lol so the nutball eco terrorists have resorted to scorched earth.
Matthew Walker
Yea nigguh, environmentalists dindu nuffin, jus a little direkt aktion, they was gettin ready to go off to Noel Ignatiev and hate the whites and stuff, sheeit, just need mo money fo dem programs. Srsly though, white genocide is infinitely more important than preserving our land for niggers to use.
Austin Sullivan
Wouldn't be the first time, they used to torch cars.
Wyatt Garcia
It was pretty much guaranteed based on the timing. Libtard terrorists waited until right before the latest discussions on it.
Nicholas Brown
The image of the leak I saw showed a field darkened by the oil leaking from underground pipes. How exactly did they sabotage underground?
Jason Gray
Maybe with a drill? Maybe with heavy machinery? It was out in the middle of a field in a remote area.
Aaron Smith
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Christian Long
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Elijah Russell
Hitler loved the environment. This pipeline ruins environment. Hitler wouldn't like this pipeline. Neither should you. Check 'em.
Ethan Lopez
Checked and heil'd o/
Oliver Moore
wow you're right chaim they dindu nuffins they wuz good goys "proving" their fear mongering right by intentionally causing an environmental disaster
(((You))) can join (((11f57d))) in the oven.
Christian Phillips
Is the current leakage connected to this?
Sebastian Gomez
Fuck off, retard. The oil was being transported in railcars before the pipeline came in. That's why Warren Buffet was so opposed to it, given his investments in rail. There's less leakage and pollution than there was prior.
Could still be connected i.e.: sabotaged parts get installed, start leaking later.
Evan Kelly
sage
Oliver Green
Hitler would have chosen a more environmentally friendly way to transport it.
Jonathan Price
You're probably the same kike using Hitler images to shill for fagism. Kill yourself.
William Nguyen
In the 30s and 40s they would have used rail I presume, and only because the pipeline technology wasnt developed yet. Today, pipelines ARE the safest way to transport oil, and the most efficient. Prior to the pipeline, they were using rail, which is prone to catastrophic failure and crash. Well maintained pipelines that dont have commie nutball watermelons cutting them up with torches are not.
Landon Johnson
Like what, nigger? What is safer for transporting liquids than a pipeline? We all know you can't name anything and are using HItler to try to browbeat anyone who disagrees.
Carter Anderson
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Noah Sanchez
Liberals and logic never go hand in hand, hence you see fuckers screeching for wind turbine power on the basis that it is better for the planet while conveniently ignoring that said system outright slaughters bird populations in the area it's implemented in.
Elijah Morris
Wew I never said shit about safety or efficiency. Where are all you narrative changing shills coming from?
Jordan Moore
Reported then.
Christopher Taylor
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Benjamin Perry
>get called out for trying to pass shill (((narratives))) hidden by Hitler images Low energy.
Joseph Hill
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Jaxson Brown
Wew they don't teach you fags how to change things up while astroturfing in Tel Aviv? If you think I would take any of your posts seriously after the last barrage where you all at the same time tried to change the narrative and reframe my post context, you got brain damage. You're all only even more obvious on the second round.
Owen Wright
To be honest, I don't trust (((Oil Companies))) around our water sup
Chase Jenkins
Posted too early Water supply*
Logan Robinson
Jew killed my father. Prepare to die.
Jason Kelly
It’s not about the environment, it’s about keeping America from oil independence. I wonder who their thought leaders could be?
Isaiah Wilson
Ungrateful blanket-dodgers. They were given giant plots of land and they get to make their own laws on them, and they get money from the state, all after they got BTFO massively, and they still complain.
Dylan Rogers
Fucking kill yourself, shill.
Camden Morales
So these environmentalists leaked shittons of oil into the natural habitat of local animals because the pipeline would hurt them? This is why I hate liberals.
Logan Carter
Getting drunk on moonshine and beating a man's family seems to be a kind of last stand of implicit casino nigger identity t. Bull "Spencer" Cumdumpster
Blake Barnes
wew, Vril powered society when
Jose Roberts
yeah we should probably gift-wrap 5gallon buckets of crude and hand-carry them across the continent. plus it will create jobs!
Caleb Flores
oil pipelines are way safer then oil drilling in the open ocean or shipping it on trains or boat.
