Sierra Club and its work on the carbon dioxide pipelines work was recently attacked in a letter written by former Governor Terry Branstad that was sent to all of the landowners whose land will be taken for an easement for the Summit carbon dioxide pipeline.
"I am proud to be working with the Sierra Club because they are the first group to help us organize to protect our farms which have been in our families for a very long time in most cases. I don’t appreciate Summit and Branstad trying to control the narrative the way they are doing. I also don’t appreciate the marketing mail I have received from Summit when they refuse to make the landowner lists public. At the present time, we have no way to organize on our own, and Summit is trying to use that to their advantage. Shame on them!" said Lori O'Brien, landowner from Plymouth County.
“The Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club has been active in Iowa since the 1970’s and we will continue working to protect Iowa’s land, water quality, air quality, and parks and recreation areas”, said Jess Mazour, Conservation Program Coordinator with the Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club.
The Sierra Club has a long history of protecting landowners from the destruction caused by pipelines. One only has to fly over the path of the Dakota Access pipeline to realize that years after the pipeline was constructed, the farms still have not returned to their full productive use. Five years later,...
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