Will native prairie ever grow here again?

Those are the words of Sue Sibson, who with her husband Mike, are farming in Eastern South Dakota, while also dutifully stewarding everything from wetlands to the native prairie on their land. TransCanada didn't care about their property rights, though, and the state of South Dakota didn't seem to be listening either.

On the Mike and Sue Sibson farm outside of Howard, SD, the Keystone I pipeline didn't just cross a field of corn or soybeans (which is bad enough!), but across many different landscapes--farmland, grazing land, native prairie and ecologically sensitive wetland.

This video is courtesy of landowners Mike and Sue Sibson.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• native praire
• tar sands
• oil pipeline
• Keystone
• TransCanada
• property rights
• Sibson
• Dakota Rural Action
• South Dakota

[TLcavvy]

This pipeline went through our land as well north of Howard a ways... It went through a portion of our crop ground as well as pasture and wetland... its now almost 2011 and you could never tell they were here... except for all the brand new fence they paid for that replaced everything they tore out. They forgot to mention that in the video didnt they!

[madvilletimes]

fs81: you obviously don't know the people you're talking about.

[798welder]

Anyone who knows what they are seeing here can tell you that this dozer is stripping off the topsoil so that it can be segregated and replaced free of contamination. It will then be fertilized and RE-SEEDED with whatever (native grasses, crops, etc.) was growing at the time clearing began. Anti-erosion measures will also be in place making the area better than before.

[mattwellman5050]

The same pipeline came through our ground early in the spring in 2009 in Nebraska and they were done by the end of July and we were still able to plant corn for silage and sure we had some issues but we got paid and there were no problems!!!

[fuckshit81]

ya it will quit whining hippies