Unlikely allies join to fight pipeline project
“If politics creates strange allies, so do pipelines: Think farmers and landowners shoulder to shoulder with left-leaning university students, environmentalists and ministers.
“There are issues that transcend political parties and transcend the left-right continuum … and this is one of them,” said Ralph Rosenberg, executive director of the Iowa Environmental Council, one of the groups concerned about a 1,100-mile pipeline a Texas company has proposed building across Iowa.
The $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline would move up to 570,000 barrels of oil from North Dakota’s Bakken oil fields to Patonka, Ill. The pipeline would cross 18 Iowa counties. It’s bringing out hundreds of Iowans to informational meetings being held across the state this week. More meetings are planned for later this month.”
Eller, Donnelle. Iowa City Press 3 December 2014.