SOUTH DAKOTA EASEMENT TEAM: LANDOWNERS GUIDE TO CARBON PIPELINE OPPOSITION

Written By Mark Hefflinger

Carbon pipelines are a major new risk for the Midwest. The South Dakota Easement Action Team supports landowners’ property rights and work against projects that risk our water and our way of life. Experience in organizing landowners’ legal co-ops and pushing local elected officials to enact commonsense community protections across multiple states has informed this guide, available to view, download and print at home, share with your neighbors and local elected officials:

South Dakota Easement Team: Landowners Guide to Carbon Pipeline Opposition

In this guide:

  • Get informed.

  • Fast Facts: Carbon Capture & Storage

  • About the South Dakota Easement Team

  • Know Your Rights: CO2 Pipelines, Voluntary

  • Easements & Eminent Domain

  • Know Your Rights: Surveying & Land Agents

  • South Dakota Public Utilities Commission

  • Information Guide to Siting Pipelines

  • Tax Considerations

  • Pipeline Problems: Photos from Dakota Access Pipeline

Read the reports:

  • Pipeline Safety Trust: CO2 Pipelines—Dangerous and Under-Regulated

  • Pipeline Safety Trust: CO2 Pipeline Summary for Policymakers

  • Water Woes: Uncovering Summit Carbon’s Unsustainable Water Use

  • Science & Environmental Health Network: Carbon Dioxide—Normal Physiology, Hazards & Risks

  • EPA Guide to Government Agencies Involved in

  • Carbon Capture Projects

Take Action:

  • Doorknocking Script

  • Tips for Writing a Letter To the Editor

  • Example County Ordinance

  • Example County Resolution

  • Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s Guidance on County Ordinances

  • PUC Denial of Ordinance Preemption

Mark Hefflinger
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