BREAKING NEWS: Hundreds of water protectors were assaulted by water cannons in sub-freezing temperatures on Sunday night; on Monday, Mississippi Stand Water Protectors began a hunger strike in front of the Iowa Utility Board headquarters on East Court Street.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. explains the lawlessness of the pipeline company, in comparison to the peaceful protest of those demanding law and order in North Dakota. State law enforcement is clearly on the side of the law-breakers.
We hear Iowa citizen voices from Thursday's Iowa Utilities Board hearing, decrying the pipeline company practices and lack of IUB oversight. Then Wally Taylor, lawyer for the Iowa Sierra Club, explains the details of the financial deals Dakota Access and its parent, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), are engaged in and bound by. It appears Sunoco, a parent company that never signed the state's requisite $25 million insurance-backing agreement, is set to take over ETP. January 1 looms as an important deadline for the pipeline's financial viability.
Mark Edwards of Boone shares his story of navigating the Kafka-esque labyrinth to protect public land--and shares his support of KHOI and its coverage of the Bakken pipeline in Iowa. Thank you, Mark!
The hour begins with Betty Baird of Ames Progressive Alliance and Ames city council member Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen discussing the city's action regarding solar net metering. Residents and businesses generating solar energy currently get a primo rate of $11.66 per kilowatt; that rate will be reduced to help cover utility overhead, but not to the extent recommended by EUORAB, the municipal power plant's advisory board.
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Originally broadcast noon 11/11/2016
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