John --
Right now, hundreds of impacted Midwest landowners, along with concerned citizens and advocates facing proposed carbon pipeline projects in their communities, are converging on Des Moines, Iowa -- where on May 31-June 1, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is hosting a "Public Meeting on Carbon Dioxide Pipeline Safety."
The meeting will include a range of presentations and panel discussions, with participants including Bold Alliance attorney Paul Blackburn, and the Pipeline Safety Trust, and will inform the agency's new rulemaking for CO2 pipeline safety standards currently underway. Bold staff along with organizers from the Easement Action Teams in Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska, and many landowners from the impacted states have already registered to attend.
(*NOTE: You can still register to attend the PHMSA Public Meeting May 31-June 1 both in-person or virtually. Register here.*)
If you can't make it to stand with us in Des Moines, you can still make sure your voice is heard: Add your own Comments about CO2 pipeline concerns (impacted landowner, nearby community resident, etc) to the petition and then sign your name ==> Tell Sec. Pete: PHMSA Must Take Action on CO2 Pipeline Safety.
We will be hand-delivering your petition along with the written comments you include with your signature to PHMSA at the meeting this week in Des Moines, IA. After the first day of the meeting, Bold Alliance will host a dinner for landowners and a panel discussion: "Satartia First Responders and Victims," hosted by journalist Dan Zegart and featuring several first responders and victims of the 2020 CO2 pipeline rupture in Satartia, MS.
Thanks for signing the petition to Sec. Pete. We hope to see you at the PHMSA Public Meeting on CO2 Pipelines in Des Moines May 31-June 1.
Jane Kleeb and the Bold team
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