Keystone Spill Took Place on Vocal Opponent's Land
Amherst-area retired farmer Don Tisher shrugs at the Keystone pipeline oil spill (“Accidents happen”) and tells KSFY, “It’s nothing that won’t be taken care of efficiently and good…. I’m not going to live long enough to not need gas and oil and fuel and this is the safest, the most economical way of transporting it.”
Don Tisher was apparently not as nonchalant about the Canadian tar sands oil pipeline back in 2007. Don and Gene Tisher were among dozens of of South Dakotans against whom TransCanada initiated eminent domain proceedings to seize land for the Keystone pipeline.
The plat map I got from Kent Moeckly and Lillian Anderson yesterday shows that Don Tisher and his relatives own several quarters of land around Amherst, including four quarters in Weston Township through which TransCanada ran its leaky pipeline.
The plat map indicates that the quarter where the spill took place is owned by Bill Tisher, who in 2007 firmly opposed having the pipeline run through his land:
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