Join us as we stand with landowners at their condemnation hearings. MONDAY, JULY 25 in DES MOINES: Stand with the Higginbottom family next Monday in Des Moines at their condemnation hearing in Polk County. Join with Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition members Iowa CCI and Bold Iowa for a rally prior to the condemnation hearing: Monday, July 25 from 8:45 – […]
Thank you, pipeline fighters, for a powerful day along the Des Moines River on Saturday, June 25th! Over 80 pipeline fighters from across Iowa gathered along the Des Moines River in Boone County for a “Protect Our Rivers!” flotilla followed by a community gathering in Pilot Mound. Mark Edwards opened our press conference with the history of the Des Moines […]
Written by Peter Clay, who represents Citizens Climate Lobby in the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition On April 1st, following a more than twenty mile horseback ride from tribal headquarters in Fort Yates on the Standing Rock Reservation, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe, and other Northern Plains tribes established the Camp of the Sacred […]
On June, 21st, 2016, the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition joined with Boone and Story County landowners to host a press conference at the farm of Dick and Judy Lamb in rural Boone County. The Lambs called for Iowans to stand with them in contesting government overreach in taking their farmland. The Lamb farm has been in their family since the […]
The following post was written by pipeline fighter, Mary McBee, from Tama, Iowa. “IOWA NICE” I was born and raised on a farm in northern Iowa, nurtured in a rural community where we learned to be polite and considerate of other people, like them or not, because we all depended upon one another. It was a gentle unruffled way of […]
We continue our call upon the US Army Corps to deny its permit for the Bakken pipeline. We refuse to allow Dakota Access to endanger our land, water, health, and climate. Thanks to your efforts, the Bakken pipeline is not a done deal and our Summer of Resistance continues to grow! Water is life. Join us Saturday, June 25th for […]
Friends, On March 10th, 2016 the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB) granted a permit which would allow Dakota Access to build a 347-mile crude oil pipeline that would slice through the middle of Iowa. But the Bakken Pipeline Resistance Coalition (BPRC) and its 28 statewide member organizations remain committed to ensuring the Bakken Pipeline is never built. We hope you’ll join […]
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is considering a Sovereign Lands Permit for the Bakken Pipeline, which includes the crossings of the Big Sioux, Des Moines, and Mississippi Rivers, as well as the Big Sioux Wildlife Management Area. You can submit comments to the DNR asking them to deny this permit to protect our land and water through January […]
Planning on attending the DNR hearing regarding the proposed Bakken Pipeline December 16th at 5PM? The following are talking points should you decide to testify at the hearing: The Threat to Iowa’s Soil and water. The proposed Bakken pipeline would represent an on going threat to Iowa’s precious natural resources, as countless crude oil pipeline accidents have proven. Just this January, the […]
With Thanksgiving celebrations nearly here, the BPRC steering team has so very much for which to be grateful. Yes, the Iowa Utilities Board hearing is still underway and will likely continue for another two weeks. But now is the time to celebrate the contributions of countless Iowans committed to protecting our soil and water, landowners’ rights, and future generations: To […]
