Protesters: We aren't going anywhere without assurance pipeline won't be built
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Many Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters said Monday that they aren't going anywhere until they get assurances that the structure won't be built.
That contradicts Standing Rock Tribal Chair Dave Archambault's message that it's "time to go home" now that federal officials have halted pipeline construction.
On Sunday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers delivered a major victory to protesters in saying it would not grant an easement for pipeline construction.
But on Monday, the mood at the camp was back to business as usual, according to MPR News reporter Dan Gunderson, who's been there for the last several days.
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State officials have been making a case that with winter conditions taking hold it's dangerous for protesters to remain at the camp.
But that's not deterring many people even as a blast of snow and cold hit the camp Monday.
Protesters — who call themselves "water protectors" — were still winterizing the camp, bracing structures for the frigid North Dakota winter.
New people were still arriving at the camp in recent days.
To hear more from Gunderson, use the audio player above.
