March 19, 2024

Frustrated by pipeline presence

Sheri Pherigo

Newton

I just got off the phone from talking to Rep. Dan Kelley. I know how hard he has been working on stopping the pipeline project. What tipped my anger is that the pipeline is being stockpiled before it was ever approved.

What right does Dakota Access have to do this at their own discretion? How dare them. If this would benefit us, wouldn’t it have happened long ago?

We know where it’s going — China! Not to mention the jobs are next to nothing they promised and what it will do to our land. Does the oil company think the farmers from Iowa are idiots? I don’t think so.

My dad once told me politics talks and one hand washes the other.

I know that didn’t happen with Dan Kelley. What did happen here? Our farmers need answers. Gov. Branstad said in his re-election speech, “we have a clean state,” but for how long?