Wanting to draw attention to the Marion County pipeline exemption issue, Dan Holub of Marion called a press conference with the local and areas newspapers and a Wichita television station.

Stating he was doing this as a private citizen, he told reporter Stephanie Diffin of KAKE-TV, he had no qualms with TransCanada and the Keystone Pipeline project but was concerned with legislators unwillingness to review and pass a Senate bill that would require the pipeline company to make payments of $36 million per year for the next 10 years to Marion County and similar payments to the other five Kansas counties this would affect.

Landowner Willard Hett also was interviewed and said the pipeline company had treated him well and the company was leaving a lot of money in Marion County. Hett declined to say the amount he was paid for the easement.