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To help local activists effectively take action on local environmental policies that impact property rights, energy sources, farming practices, and local development, CFACT is creating tools and tactics under the label “Freedom Pods”.
Here are a few updates of our recent activities:
Activists in five states, including Iowa. North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota are taking action to block the building of a dangerous carbon capture pipeline. CFACT Freedom Pod leaders barnstormed across the affected states, assuring county officials they do not have to surrender local authority to appointed utilities boards. In addition, CFACT has motivated local citizens and farmers to stand up to the corporate pressure and intimidation. Since 2023, the pipeline companies held public meetings to sell the project to local residents. In Iowa, 30 counties were targeted, including Page, Montgomery, Hamilton, and Webster. In addition, public meetings were held in Rochester, Minnesota; Lincoln, Nebraska; Sioux Falls, MN; and Pierre, SD. Each of these public meetings was packed with citizens expressing their opposition to the pipeline. Polls show 78% of Iowans oppose the pipeline. In 2024, South Dakota farmers gathered over 31,000 petitions, resulting in gaining a vote on the upcoming ballot to repeal the program. Also, in South Dakota, two counties, Brown and Spink, have passed moratoriums blocking any permits or construction on the pipeline.
In Colorado, as part of the Biden 30×30 plan, the Federal Government is moving to lock away 400,000 acres by establishing a national monument conservation area, affecting private property, cattle grazing, mining, and water rights. CFACT Freedom Pods organizers in four surrounding states are building opposition. In Kansas, powerful private organizations are pressuring local governments to regionalize water rights as part of the plan to control the area through the 30×30 plan. We are now building Freedom Pods to build opposition.
For the next year, CFACT plans to increase the Freedom Pod movement into every state, alert local citizens of similar policies their communities and state legislatures will face, and provide education, tools, and tactics to fight back effectively to protect and restore local government representation, empowered by citizen input, as intended by our Founding Fathers.
