Pipeline tour reveals more opponents, Fallon says

Opposition to a proposed oil pipeline, which would pass through Calhoun County as it crossed Iowa, is gaining momentum, one critic said April 6.
Former state legislator Ed Fallon, who is walking a route along the proposed pipeline’s path, spent time last week in Calhoun County, talking with farmers and other residents about the project. He met April 1 with Thomas Burkhead, a 27-year-old farmer whose family has a fifth-generation farm here, northeast of Rockwell City.
“He’s an organic farmer in the Des Moines metro, but has a dream of this farm tapping into the whole local foods movement,” Fallon told The Graphic-Advocate April 6.
Fallon’s walk that day was a 12-mile stretch of back roads starting just north of Sparky’s One-Stop on Highway 4. 
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