Members of the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition are vowing to continue fighting against Energy Transfer’s Pipeline Project. Energy Transfer Partners recently received Iowa Utilities Board permission to start construction in Iowa where they have voluntary easements. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement’s State Policy Director Adam Mason says his group and other coalition members will work to get the Army Corps of Engineers to stop the project.
He says ICCI will even go so far as to engaging in civil disobedience to stop the pipeline.
Mason says besides the environmental concerns they have with the Bakken Pipeline, there are also worries being expressed by Iowa’s farmers and ranchers including eminent domain and potential damage to soils.
Energy Transfer Partners has already received approval for their project in North Dakota, South Dakota and Illinois. The group wants to ship crude oil from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa into Illinois.
