To: Iowa Utilities Board
Submit Your Comment: Reject the Bakken Pipeline
The Iowa Utilities Board must reject ETP's petition for a hazardous liquid pipeline permit. The Bakken pipeline would not serve the public good, need, or necessity and is all risk and no reward for Iowans.
The potential impact of an oil spill or leak to water quality and land quality for both private and public lands would be devastating and costly to Iowa's communities.
We demand an outright rejection of this hazardous liquid pipeline permit (docket number HLP-2014-0001).
The potential impact of an oil spill or leak to water quality and land quality for both private and public lands would be devastating and costly to Iowa's communities.
We demand an outright rejection of this hazardous liquid pipeline permit (docket number HLP-2014-0001).
Why is this important?
The Bakken pipeline is all risk and no reward for you and everyone else in the state of Iowa. Here are some reasons the Iowa Utility Board (IUB) must reject the Bakken Pipeline proposal:
• Increased risks: The size of this pipeline is unprecedented for the state of Iowa and would carry up to 570,000 barrels of dangerous crude oil through Iowa every day. With the high rate of pipeline failures, it is not a matter of if, but when it will spill and leak oil in Iowa's land and water.
• Continued dependence on fossil fuels: Investing in massive oil and gas infrastructure locks us into decades of dependence on fossil fuels, doing nothing to protect our homes and families from climate change.
• Eminent Domain: If approved, the company building the pipeline would be able to use eminent domain to build the pipeline on private property, even if you, the landowner, doesn't want it to be built.
• Only private interests win: The Bakken Pipeline would do nothing to decrease our dependence on foreign oil. In fact, the oil that would be transported would be sent to the Gulf of Mexico for export!
Your opinion and taking the opportunity to participate in the democratic process is important. The IUB needs to hear from you and all Iowans about why this pipeline should not be approved.
• Increased risks: The size of this pipeline is unprecedented for the state of Iowa and would carry up to 570,000 barrels of dangerous crude oil through Iowa every day. With the high rate of pipeline failures, it is not a matter of if, but when it will spill and leak oil in Iowa's land and water.
• Continued dependence on fossil fuels: Investing in massive oil and gas infrastructure locks us into decades of dependence on fossil fuels, doing nothing to protect our homes and families from climate change.
• Eminent Domain: If approved, the company building the pipeline would be able to use eminent domain to build the pipeline on private property, even if you, the landowner, doesn't want it to be built.
• Only private interests win: The Bakken Pipeline would do nothing to decrease our dependence on foreign oil. In fact, the oil that would be transported would be sent to the Gulf of Mexico for export!
Your opinion and taking the opportunity to participate in the democratic process is important. The IUB needs to hear from you and all Iowans about why this pipeline should not be approved.