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TPPF’s “Legislators Guide to the Issues 2017-2018” offers these property rights recommendations:
In a laundry list of pipeline reforms, a newspaper recommends prohibiting eminent domain when the public good is in whole or part exported.
The targets: Private companies with eminent domain authority like transmission lines & pipelines
The Recorder | Greenfield Massachustees | Lets Fix Pipeline Review Steps
Which states are eminent domain battlegrounds? Georgia & South Carolina
Which issues are resonating? prohibition on eminent domain exercised by or in support of private companies
Are there new, post-Kelo coalitions? Yes, property rights advocates + environmentalists
The primary eminent domain target? Pipelines
The answer for pipelines? Condemning in federal court, under federal laws that do not provide as great protection for landowners and may preempt state law
What project using eminent domain is being affected? The Dakota Pipeline
What court is intervening to pause work on the pipeline while the legal issues are resolved? The D.C. Circuit
Why are we dealing with the D.C. Circuit? Tribal lands are sovereign lands.
The number of arrests at the Dakota pipeline eminent domain protest.
KWQC | 43 people were arrested during Dakota Access Pipeline protest
A PAC in the east wants a city to use eminent domain to create a co-op grocer to provide affordable food and necessities.
Where in the world is this waldo? Charleston, SC
What did this PAC name itself? Lowcountry Up Is Good
What does the PAC say its goal is? to “establish a community cooperative grocery to provide affordable food and necessities to the surrounding community and accessible transit riders.”
What should this PAC name itself? Robinhood. No cash. Just food and…
These high profile Texans signed an ad that ran in the Dallas Morning News opposing the Trans Pecos Pipeline:
Who organized the ad? Big Bend Conservation Alliance
Other celebs involved in anti-pipeline/anti-eminent domain issues: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tommy Lee Jones, Jason Mamoa, Exra Miller, Ray Fisher, Pharrell Williams, Susan Sarandon, and Shailene Woodley
A watershed coaltition in Southern Georgia and Northern Florida touts solar energy because it doesn’t require eminent domain.
The Number of Arrests: 38+
The Native American arguments against using eminent domain for the pipeline:
The number of courts involved:
Wall Street Journal | Pipeline Protests Bring Dozens of Arrests…
The Nakota, Lakota and Dakota Nations are mobilizing to halt a pipeline. It is a peaceful protest that prohibits weapons.
Captured on video, its the tribes the largest mobilization in 140 years. The Native Americans are protesting a pipeline across their sacred lands.