An Iowa legislator whose farm is in the path of the pipeline that would ship North Dakota crude oil through Iowa to a refinery in Illinois says he’s probably like a lot of landowners. He waited to see whether state regulators would approve the project before signing a lease agreement with the pipeline developers…
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That’s Representative Gary Worthan whose farm near Storm Lake has been in the family since 1878. About 250 feet of pipeline will cut through Worthan’s property, near the intersection of two gravel roads…
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A representative of the pipeline company made Worthan an offer about 19 months ago and Worthan is planning to accept it now that the Iowa Utilities Board issued a permit for construction. The pipeline route stretches through 17 Iowa counties and cut across the state diagonally from northwest to southeast.