Response from Jon Hansen, Candidate for Governor, South Dakota to North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley

By RAN Editor | September 23, 2025

Jon Hansen

 

North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley is threatening to sue South Dakota to overturn our hard-fought law protecting landowners from eminent domain abuse.

Let’s call this what it is: it appears the carbon pipeline lobbyists have found their latest puppet—and now North Dakota taxpayers might be being forced to bankroll a lawsuit against their own neighbors in South Dakota, all to help a private carbon pipeline company.

Drew, we’ve seen this story before. Big corporations and their lobbyists have tried again and again to ram this carbon pipeline down the throats of South Dakota’s farmers, ranchers, and landowners. But unlike you, we are standing on the side of our people—defending THE PEOPLE’s constitutional right to private property over an out-of-state company’s desire to take what’s not theirs.

So as the speaker of the House of Representatives in South Dakota let me offer you some neighborly advice Drew: don’t become the latest in a long line of shills for power and money hungry companies who think South Dakota will be an easy push over. The people who came before you and thought we would go down easy were all WRONG—and they all learned the hard way and lost. You will too.
Posted in All States, Eminent Domain, North Dakota, Property Rights, South Dakota, Summit Carbon Solutions, Top Tier Information