Dickinson Supervisors Talk About Possible Pipeline Intervention With I-U-B
Dickinson Supervisors Talk About Possible Pipeline Intervention With I-U-B
May 18, 2022Steve Schwaller
(Spirit Lake)– There was some discussion but no official action was taken at Tuesday’s Dickinson County Board of Supervisors meeting regarding the county possibly intervening with the Iowa Utility Board in the matter concerning carbon pipelines. A woman who spoke at Tuesday’s meeting, however, encouraged the county to intervene…
“If you enter to intervene, my understanding is that’s another step to the I-U-B to re-enforce that you are totally against having a pipeline in our county because of drainage ditches, because of roads, because of eminent domain. And my understanding also is the ones that don’t complain or don’t file the objections, they’re going to be passed over as well, they agree because they didn’t object, they didn’t do enough to stop it, to fight. So I would encourage you to do all you can to intervene and make your voices stronger.”
Supervisor Tim Fairchild says in his mind, it’s going to be a fine line as to whether or not the county should do that…
“I like to have my objections very clear, very arguable, and to the point. The arguments are what we’ve done so far, eminent domain on private property, I’m 100 percent behind that. The ordinance we wrote on our drainage districts, I’m 100 percent behind that. As soon as you start getting off into all the other tangents on it, they’re less defensible. And then I think that when you just overwhelm them with objections that aren’t as firmly rooted in solid ground, which the ones we have, are.”
The supervisors however did authorize assistant county attorney Steve Goodlow to put together some points that he feels the county would have a solid leg on which to intervene with the I-U-B.
