Putting Power Back in the Hands of Iowa Landowners
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IOWA EASEMENT TEAM:
Landowners
Meetings
The Iowa Easement Team organizes regular in-person and weekly virtual meetings. If you are organizing a meeting with other landowners and would like to have questions answered, a member of IET would be happy to appear via videoconference or telephone.
Attorney Brian Jorde with Domina Law Group speaks at a Nebraska Easement Action Team landowners meeting in York at Chances 'R restaurant, Feb. 3, 2022 (Photo: Chris Clayton)
The Iowa Easement Team is a grass roots organization established for the benefit of landowners affected by proposed Carbon Pipelines in Iowa.
Landowner constitutional and property rights and interests must be protected no matter what actions are taken by Pipeline Companies or State Agencies.
IET’s number one goal is landowner education around your property rights and how and what to fight for in any easement, the contract determining CO2 pipeline rights to your land and obligations to you, should you be forced to negotiate an easement.
IET is a landowner-organized and run group designed to help educate and empower other Iowa landowners to understand the options available to you to protect your land and future.
IET is working closely with a legal team and landowner organizers to build a statewide network of concerned and affected persons to join together as one powerful group.
Landowners at a Nebraska Easement Action Team meeting in York at Chances 'R restaurant, Feb. 3, 2022 Photo: Chris Clayton
LANDOWNERS VIRTUAL MEETING
Pipeline expert Paul Blackburn gives an overview of this unproven “carbon capture” technology, and the unsound economics and safety and health risks from these proposed carbon pipelines.
Attorney Brian Jorde with Omaha’s Domina Law Group, gave a presentation on landowners’ rights with respect to eminent domain, and spoke to the advantages of forming a legal “co-op” with other landowners who oppose their land being taken by eminent domain for these projects.
Jane Kleeb, founder of Bold, the lead group that worked to build an alliance of farmers, ranchers and Tribal Nations to stop the Keystone XL pipeline from using eminent domain. The virtual meeting included a Q&A where landowners submitted questions via text message, email, or typed on Zoom that were answered by the panelists.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
VIEW PREVIOUS BRIEFINGS ON “CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE” TECHNOLOGY AND CO2 PIPELINES:
