A rural Boone County Iowa landowner hosted an event with the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition (Tuesday) on his farm.  Dick Lamb says the farm has been in his family for three generations and they are not willing to voluntarily give an easement to Dakota Access to let the Bakken pipeline run under it.

 

Lamb and his wife Judy have joined other central Iowa landowners in a lawsuit against the Iowa Utilities Board  and the board’s decision to allow Dakota Access to use eminent domain in this situation.

 

The I-U-B recently voted to allow the construction of the pipeline to begin in areas where the company has secured the necessary permits and easements.  Lamb says that is a setback to their effort, but they prefer to focus on the positive.