5 Reasons why the IUB must say #NoBakken

WHY CAN THE PIPELINE ABSOLUTELY NOT BE BUILT? 

1. Pipelines leak, threatening our lands, waters, and livelihoods. Spills will cost millions, and the bill will be footed by taxpayers, NOT Big Oil.

2. The proposed route would closely track the Des Moines River watershed across the length of the state, one of the biggest rivers in Iowa that hundreds of thousands of Iowans depend on for clean drinking water. If this pipeline is built, it could seriously harm Iowa’s already impaired water quality, threaten the property rights of thousands of everyday Iowans and rural Iowans, and contribute to the catastrophic climate change.

3. Iowa already has enough problems dealing with corporate agriculture and factory farm manure pollution. The last thing we need is Big Oil pumping up to 540,000 gallons of dirty Bakken oil through Iowa every single day. Because it’s only a matter of time before pipelines break. It’s happened already in Arkansas, Michigan, Montana, and North Dakota.

4. This plan was hatched in secret, and the first Iowans even knew of the proposal was when the Texas oil corporation, Transfer Energy Partners, sent letters to thousands of property owners asking for permission to come survey their land.

5. Not only are the impacts horrible, but ETP has the audacity to assume that this is a done deal. They intend to use eminent domain to seize the property rights of those who stand in their path.  We can’t pave the way for ETP’s profits- inviting Big Oil into Iowa will only compromise our quality of life.

Join the Fight

Interested in helping stop the proposed Bakken Pipeline?

• Contact us for more information

• Join as an Iowa CCI member

• Sign up for our E-Mail Action list to get the latest updates

• Like us on Facebook.

• Follow us on Twitter.