Iowa Easement Team landowners sponsoring billboards across state to oppose carbon pipelines, eminent domain

July 2022

Landowners and community members impacted by proposed carbon pipelines in Iowa have sponsored a series of billboards across the state, including in the Iowa Lakes region near Lake Okoboji this summer during the state fair season. Visitors from Minnesota and within Iowa report seeing the billboards on Hwy 71 near Milford.

The first series of billboards feature a rural setting and the face of Randy Thompson — a Nebraska rancher whose family previously faced eminent domain the Keystone XL, and worked with the Nebraska Easement Action Team to form a co-op of Nebraska landowners who successfully opposed eminent domain for KXL.

The second series of billboards will feature images of cropland destruction documented during construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, along with encouragement for Iowa landowners to form a legal co-op to challenge eminent domain for the proposed carbon pipelines.