Robert Leonard interviewed three Iowans who have been speaking up about the Summit CO2 pipeline on track to be built across Iowa.  Their personal accounts reveal shocking information as they describe their efforts to have meaningful conversations with their county elected officials. They share their stories of local foot-dragging, and sound the alarm about the dangers the pipeline poses to the public.

” The CO2 cloud that’s going to come from a rupture is heavier than air, it’s an asphyxiant and it suffocates people. It suffocates animals. My family has, they live in the Dead Zone with this Pipeline and proximity to their home. They have five minutes to take shelter in their home before this cloud could overtake them. So people are people are going to die. It’s going to happen, and we’re just calling for action from our our people at the county level who could do things to protect us that refuse to to move ahead.” – Julie Glade, Wright county, Iowa

Read the entire transcript on Robert Leonard’s Substack, Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture  with a free or paid account.

From his Substack: Leonard is a former radio news reporter. He has bylines in the New York Times, TIME, USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Iowa Capitol Dispatch, the Kansas City Star, and many more.

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