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Background: Georgia legislatively haled eminent domain by private companies while it assessed how pervasive private eminent domain use is.
The official name of the commission: Joint State Commission on Petroleum Pipelines
What types of individuals were appointed by the Georgia Governor to the Eminent Domain Commission?
What is the activist event? Hands Across Our Land, a national activist day
The specific property rights threat? Pipelines
the goal of the property rights activists: ” to bring attention to the plight landowners and communities face as energy corporations push for the construction of pipelines”
The Valdosta Daily Times | Activists hold hands across the land
National Geographic’s website has a feature piece entitled, Palmetto Pipeline: An Eminent Problem. Here’s what you need to know:
Which eminent domain case is resulting in landowners attorneys fees being paid by the condemning entity? TransCanada Pipeline vs. Nebraska land owners
York News Times | Nebraska Judge Orders TransCanada to Pay Legal Costs of Keystone XL Landowners
Joining other courts, which appelate court denied immediate eminent domain authority for a pipeline? A Pennsylvania appeals court
What argument is made to deny eminent domain authority to the pipeline?
Which state legislature has formed a Pipeline study group to recommend eminent domain reform? Georgia in coordination with its year long prohibition on eminent domain by pipelines
What is required of the 13 members of the Pipeline Study Group?
Who…
Lots of dollars going into pipeline investment.
This issue unites Rs and Ds. Liberal enviromentalists join with libertarian leaning propety rights advocates
Its made an impact:
Which Republican Governor signed a bill prohibiting eminent domain by private, for-profit companies? South Carolina’s Nikki Haley
Is eminent domain preservered for governmental entities? Yes
WRAL | Law on concealed guns among more than 40 signed by Haley
Is eminent domain on the table for the Vista Ridge Pipeline connecting to San Antonio Water System? YES
What does SAWS predict as a reason to say No to a Vista Ridge purchase offer? Rural lands that have been in a family for generations.
What does a landowner in the path of Vista Ridge say is his concern and reason he opposes Vista Ridge? His land’s water well drops. The background:
What state was moving a bill that would require natural gas pipelines to buy any land within 250 feet of a natural gas line? New Hampshire
Would the natural gas comapny be required to by all or part of the land? All of the land as long as part of the land was within 250 feet of a natural gas line?
How far did the bill get? Passed through one legislative chamber, died on the last day of consideration of bills in the second legislative chamber.