About Us
The Track the Truth initiative is made up of individuals, businesses and citizen organizations with serious concerns about the safety and negative impacts of rail projects by Canadian Pacific and DM&E.
While each community has unique concerns, there are common goals:
- Protect the communities along the rail line and insure public safety.
- Openly address the negative impacts of converting the existing DM&E main line into a high-speed freight corridor and building a new line from Wall, S.D., to coal mines in Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
- Create a public dialogue about the rail projects to ensure that the concerns of citizens and communities are heard and addressed.
Citizen Organizations and Contacts
Committee for a Safer Brookings
Karen Hardy Cárdenas, Chair
316 17th Ave. South
Brookings, SD 57006-2704
Committee for a Safer Pierre and Fort Pierre
Pat Arch Jacobs
116 North Oneida
Pierre, SD 57501-1954
605-224-8117
Mankato
Katy Wortel
enviros@hickorytech.net
Mid-States Coalition for Progress
Donley and Nancy Darnell
1331 Morrisey Road
Newcastle, WY 82701
307-746-4044
D_ndarnell@Hughes.net
Protect Private Property
P.O. Box 312
Rapid City, SD 57709
ww.sdp3.org
sdpthree@live.com
Rochester Coalition
www.protectrochester.com
Nancy Brataas, 507-288-4020
or
Amy Caucutt, caucutt.amy@co.olmsted.mn.us
South Dakota Chapter of the Sierra Club
1101 E. Philadelphia St.
Rapid City, SD 57701
605-342-2244
Winona
Jason B.
obiwarz@gmail
People Power Works
Tens of thousands of taxpayers joined forces to oppose giving a $2.33 billion federal loan to DM&E, a small company with big political connections, and in February 2007 the Federal Railroad Administration rejected DM&E's application, echoing our position in labeling the loan an "unacceptably high risk to federal taxpayers."
DM&E's ambitions have not changed, and informed citizens remain concerned about multiple aspects of the company's rail construction plans. What can you do?
Get Informed
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Get Involved
Contact an organization that can use your support.
Make a Difference
Write an e-mail to your elected officials or a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.