A group that opposes the construction of the Bakken oil pipeline asked the Iowa Utilities Board to do more to oversee violations of the company that’s building the pipeline across 18 counties. Carolyn Raffensperger of Ames is one of the members of the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition, and says Dakota Access agreed to several protective measures in the easements signed with landowners.

 

Raffensperger says they want oversight on the pipeline construction similar to what is in place in South Dakota.

Boone County landowner Dick Lamb says the pipeline cuts through his farmland and they have been trying to figure out how to get across it to harvest.

Lamb says state regulators should do more to help out landowners.

 

A spokesman for the I-U-B, Lewis Vanderstreek says the request for a liason was included in the process of approving the construction permit. He says the board has not acted on that request and he is not sure when they might.