Reading with Fracture co-editor Taylor Brorby and contributors Tyler Priest, John Kenyon and Amy Weldon Prairie Lights — Sat., Mar. 26, 7 p.m. On Saturday a reading at Prairie Lights will feature the editors and a few of the contributors from a new anthology called Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America from […]
Bakken Pipeline
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Energy expert on Bakken pipeline approval: ‘Pick your poison’
Last week, the Iowa Utilities Board unanimously approved the Bakken oil pipeline, which will cut across 18 counties in the state. Lawsuits from the Iowa chapter of the Sierra Club and a farmers group are expected to challenge the IUB ruling and block the pipeline. Dakota Access, a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners in Texas […]
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Iowa landowner offers details on Bakken pipeline prostitution allegations
When Hughie Tweedy announced Monday that he had recorded evidence of a pipeline agent offering him prostitutes in exchange for land access, he says it felt as though…
