Texas Landowners Win $2.1 Million Judgment Against Pipeline Company Over Lower Property Value
“North Texas family members have won a $2.1 million verdict against a pipeline company after their parcel of land lost value because an easement was taken for a gas line. This marks the third time…
Kentucky House passes bill prohibiting Bluegrass Pipeline from seizing property
“There’s a new potential clog in the proposed Bluegrass Pipeline. The Kentucky House today handed opponents of the project a big victory. After an hour of passionate debate, the House passed a bill designed to…
Clarification needed to protect landowner property rights
“Last March a land agent showed up at my door to inform me that two private companies wanted to install a pipeline for natural gas liquids on my farm. It would originate in Pennsylvania and…
LETTER: Bill would give oil and gas industry power of eminent domain
“Colorado Senate Bill 14-093 gives the oil and gas industry the power of eminent domain for placement of pipelines, denying public and private landowners their right to negotiate placement or reject pipelines on their property….
How to negotiate an easement
“In general, however, most developers would rather negotiate an easement with the landowner. More important, landowners are usually better off having a reasonable easement in place than losing rights to the property through eminent domain…
The Bluegrass Pipeline: A Bad Deal From Beginning to End
“With the rise in fracking for shale gas, so too comes a rise in pipelines and other infrastructure used to get the product to market. One such pipeline, the Bluegrass Pipeline, is proposed to cut…
Eminent domain panel set for Cattle Raisers Convention
“Two of the state’s leading experts on private property laws in Texas will headline a panel on eminent domain, particularly as it pertains to the increased number of oil and gas pipelines in Texas. The…
Uses and Abuses of Eminent Domain in the Commonwealth
“Last October, energy industry firms began gauging interest within Kentucky for construction of a natural gas liquids (“NGL”) pipeline.FN1 Operating under the name Bluegrass Pipeline (“Pipeline”), the new Pipeline will span thirteen counties, and connect…
Eminent-domain fight creates an odd alliance
“State representatives plan to consider a bill today to allow oil companies to use eminent domain to obtain land for pipelines – a power the state Supreme Court took away in a 2012 decision that…
Lobbyists fighting hard against bill to restrict eminent domain
“Sen. Jimmy Higdon, of Lebanon, is “guardedly optimistic” that a bill in the House to protect landowners from condemnation of their property for a natural gas liquids pipeline will be enacted before the state legislative…