Thanks to pipeline fighters

My heartfelt thanks and gratitude to Jessica Wiskus and her tenacious rural Linn County neighbors for their successful fight to stop the Wolf CO2 pipeline, as discussed in her informative, inspiring Dec. 8, Gazette guest column “Our fight against Wolf’s pipeline gives us a valuable gift.” Their tireless work is a great gift to Linn County and all those who work to defend their land, lives and communities from those who threaten us with these deadly pipelines. It provides a textbook example of successful community organizing to empower and protect the communities we love throughout our land.

As many of us begin a holiday season of light and love, our rural Linn County neighbors provide a hope-filled vision for the years ahead. Their gift reminds us that determined citizen advocacy, collective action and community organizing can successfully protect our freedoms, families and futures and create the Iowa we want to love and not leave. Thanks so much!

Tom Mohan

Cedar Rapids