Landowners want details of proposed pipeline route

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Landowners want details of proposed pipeline route
September 7, 2014

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa landowners want to see the details of a proposed oil pipeline that would carry crude oil from North Dakota across the state to Illinois.

Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners has said the 1,100-mile pipeline would likely go through 17 Iowa counties as it crosses from the northwest corner of the state to the southeast corner. The oil's final destination would be in Patoka, Illinois, about 70 miles east of St. Louis.

Environmentalists oppose the project because they worry about the potential for contamination if there were a pipeline spill. Federal records show that Iowa has avoided significant disasters with pipelines but there have 100 pipeline spills since 2004 that caused nearly $20 million in property damage.

"We are against a pipeline going through our state. Iowa won't benefit from it, and we will take all of the risks environmentally," Neila Seaman, director of the Sierra Club in Iowa, told The Des Moines Register.