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Lesson 4: Call 'Em Out
Broken Ground
English - August 11, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 20.8 MBNatural Sciences Science Earth Sciences broken ground selc south environment law Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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While pipeline developers deploy common tactics to secure support, like spreading donations around the community, organizers look for allies among their elected officials. Reporter Carrington Tatum also starts covering the story and amplifying voices going unheard. Many of those voices belong to Black landowners getting legal notices that pipeline developers plan to take a portion of their land, forever, in exchange for a meager one-time payment. But a few of them aren't sold on the deal.