Eminent Domain? Iowans Sue to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline, Say It Provides No Public Service
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Bump it!The Dakota Access pipeline is also facing legal resistance in Iowa, one of four states through which it passes. We go to Des Moines to speak with Bill Hanigan, an attorney representing 15 Iowa landowners who are contesting the project’s use of eminent domain under the guise that it would provide a public service, even as it threatens to pollute the state’s farmland and water supplies.
Read more http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/7/iowa_landowners_sue_to_stop_dakota
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