Deadline extension to leave Dakota Access oil pipeline protest camp not granted Few hundred people remaining in camp must take their possessions and leave by Wednesday. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2ltYS87 Dakota Access pipeline protesters set some of their tents and teepees ablaze Wednesday as the deadline loomed to depart their encampment near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, in what might be seen as a final show of defiance.