A Minnehaha County South Dakota Court Judge has granted Dakota Access Pipeline developers the right to survey property of close to 24 landowners who oppose the project. One of those is Peggy Hoogestrat who farms near Hartford.

Hoogestrat has several concerns with the project that’s proposed to carry Bakken Oil from North Dakota across South Dakota and into Iowa. Her other major concern is that if it’s allowed the pipeline be held accountable for any spills and needed reclamation.

She says eminent domain can’t be granted until the State Public Utilities Commission rules on the project, which won’t come until later this fall.

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