Commentary: Maybe the Dakota Access Pipeline can also result in North Dakota’s dumb corporate farming ban getting struck down


In the fall of 2016, at the height of the violent left wing protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, Dean Meyer sold the historic Cannonball Ranch to Dakota Access LLC, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The pipeline crosses the ranch, and the construction on that property at the time was a major target of protesters who were willing to use vandalism and trespass and physical violence to try and stop it.
“It’s a beautiful ranch, but I just wanted out,” former owner David Meyer told the folks at KXNews at the time.