Tag: US Army Corps

Military veterans to join Standing Rock ‘water protectors’ in pipeline protest

  NORTH DAKOTA, United States (Reuters) — In the back reaches of the Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp, U.S. military veterans, armed with saws, hammers and other tools, are quietly building barracks, an infirmary and a mess hall. Despite the bitter cold and an evacuation order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the veterans hope to erect enough space to house at least several hundred peers making their way into the Oceti Sakowin Camp […]