South Dakota landowners concerned about the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline have put up billboards showing opposition for the project. The pipeline would carry crude oil from North Dakota across South Dakota and Iowa and into Illinois. Minnehaha County landowner Peggy Hoogestraat says the billboards are intended to tell the public and the state Public Utilities Commission why the project needs to be stopped.
Hoogestraat says tax revenue numbers being used by the owner of the proposed pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners, aren’t accurate. She says it won’t create as much financial benefit to South Dakota as they’re claiming.
Hoogestraat says she and interested landowners are working with Dakota Rural Action to let people know the proposed pipeline is all risk and no reward for South Dakota.