Carolyn Raffensperger's reflection today was on gardens and the interactions of creatures, animal and human, with them. In exploring the reports of a huge victory for the Standing Rock Sioux in their legal challenges to the Dakota Access Pipeline, we first spoke with Mark Edwards and Pat Schlarbaum, who spent some weeks at the Standing Rock camp in South Dakota in 2016, as the Water Protectors, protested Energy Transfer Partners digging a trench through their land before tunneling under the Missouri River. Next Keith Puntenney discussed the legal actions of farmers whose land was condemned by Eminent Domain. And finally, Iowa Sierra Club Attorney Wally Taylor, described the legal struggle in Iowa and the current status of the pipeline in a financial climate of collapsing oil prices.
We also announced voting information at storycoutyiowa.gov/auditor.
Originally broadcast 05/20/2020
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