Medina Leading Coalition Targeting Pipeline Expansion
“Citing concerns with the planned expansion of the Keystone XL Pipeline and other pipelines across Texas, Debra Medina, the head of the advocacy group WeTexans, is leading a coalition that is calling on state lawmakers…
Eminent Domain’s Great Farmland Heist
“When TransCanada first approached Crawford’s father in 2008, and offered to pay about $7,000 for easement rights, he refused, telling the company, “We don’t want you here.” He said the corporation could reroute the line,…
Keystone XL, Through Transcanada, Uses Eminent Domain to Seize Texan’s Land
“TransCanada is an Alberta-based corporation that is building the controversial Keystone Pipeline that will carry bitumen–thicker, more corrosive and toxic, than crude oil–through 36-inch diameter pipes from the Alberta tar sands to refineries on the…
Pipeline Bills Moving This Session, But Maybe Not the Ones You Were Thinking
“The big questions about the future of pipelines in Texas this legislative session revolve around how companies should be able to use eminent domain to build them. Those questions remain unanswered. But while Texas lawmakers…
Enbridge pipeline too close for comfort?
“Imagine an international oil pipeline was coming through your backyard, within 10 feet of your home and business where you are raising four kids – and if you refuse, the company can exercise its power…
Analysis: Pipelines can use eminent domain to take land
“Why does a private pipeline company have the power of eminent domain? Why can they take my land? These are questions that landowners may ask if confronted by a private company wanting to construct a…
A filing will be made in Boulder County District Court,
“A state Supreme Court judge has reserved decision in an eminent domain case involving New York State Electric & Gas Corp. and five landowners who properties are located along the route of the proposed Seneca…
Eminent domain, oil pipeline bill dies in Texas House
“A bill that would reform the process of putting private oil pipelines across the state and take private land under eminent domain provisions died in the House on a technicality Friday. The bill, HB 2748…
Oil pipeline companies lose in eminent domain fight
“Some politicians want to fight Big Oil with the tools of big government: prohibit drilling, create windfall-profit taxes, impose new emissions rules, bar pipeline-building. But as with any industry, oil’s interests sometimes require big government,…
Colorado Kills Bill Granting Oil Pipeline Companies Eminent Domain
“That’s how Democrats in the House Transportation and Energy Committee reacted to a bill that would have granted eminent domain and condemnation rights to oil pipeline companies. But the committee instead voted 12-1 last week…