Signs and Stories: The Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa

Guske, Emily

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Title

Signs and Stories: The Dakota Access Pipeline in Iowa

Author(s)

Guske, Emily

Issue Date

2022

Keyword(s)

• Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
• Urban & Regional Planning

Abstract

First proposed in 2014 and completed in 2017, the crude-oil bearing Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) made national headlines with the Indigenous-led movement to protect water and land at Standing Rock in North Dakota. Resistance movements also developed along the remainder of the pipeline’s route including in Iowa, the third state that DAPL crosses. During Summer 2021, I conducted interviews with activists, landowners, and stakeholders affected by the construction of DAPL in Iowa, and I took the photos in this series. The top photo features a trailer placed by farmers on agricultural land to oppose the government’s use of eminent domain to condemn property for pipeline construction. The bottom photo depicts a marker which indicates the now completed pipeline route. While DAPL runs underground, the crude oil pipeline maintains a visible presence years after completion through signs like the eminent domain trailer and pipeline markers across the state. Through these signs and the stories shared with me during interviews, I learned that pipeline resistance in Iowa is part of a complex struggle for land, water, and justice in the U.S. Midwest, a region which has been, and continues to be, impacted by climate change, racism, and political corruption.

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• Text
• Image

Language

eng

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