MORTON CO. N.D. (KCND) - Dakota Access Pipeline protestors say they plan to stay at their campsites near the Cannonball River close near the Standing Rock Reservation - even after an order by federal agencies to stop construction - for as long as it takes.
Lance Dorian is a leader in one of the encampments that have drawn thousands from all over the county says this is just the beginning. He says, "this could go all winter and all next summer the way it's looking. We're sheltering out of the elements for those that will stay here."
John Wauthen, an environmental activist from Alabama says the protestors are going to be in North Dakota "until this thing is dead and gone."
After a federal judge rejected Standing Rock’s motion for an injunction to stop construction, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Departments of Interior and Justice stepped in - and construction has stopped at least for now.