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Trib Talk Bracewell & Giuliani | Obstacles to pipeline development highlight Texas’ conservative split
To counter Arkansas’ Congressmen opposition to the Plains & Eastern Clean Line transmission line, which would run through Arkansas but not provide electricity in Arkansas, an economic study was released.
Who authored the economic study? the Center for Business and Economic Research at UA’s Sam M. Walton College of Business
What economic boon for Arkansas did the report show?
In the 1990s, Georgia wants to protect wealthy quail plantation owners from a new oil pipeline, so it passed new laws related only to oil pipelines.
What does an oil pipeline have to do that a natural gas pipeline doesn’t have to do for eminent domain approval? A pipeline that carries gasoline, diesel and ethanol must:
Has this been a hurdle? yes, it has stopped a pipeline by Kinder Morgan. The…
The Texas Wildlife Association via the Hill Country Alliance raises the issue of private companies and eminent domain.
3 Points are stressed:
What bill wants to limit eminent domain power in power line cases? Congressmen Boozman & Womack each filed the Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land, or APPROVAL, Act, which would rewrite Section 1222 of the 2005 Energy Policy Act
What is it they want to limit? Federal government eminent domain authority in power line construction.
Why do they want to limit federal eminent domain power? They want to shift leverage to the states in interstate power line…
No eminent domain for private gain has been echoing around the country. What happened this week:
The Legislature raising public use standard: South Carolina
The Problem that sparked the legislation: A controversial pipeline that upset property owners but the company behind it said eminent domain would be used for about 1% of the project.
The Legislation :“A private pipeline company would have to show the line is a public necessity — meaning it’s vital to the welfare of the people…
On Friday, Ocotber 23, 2015 St. Louis aldermen voted to approve eminent domain to retain a geospatial “spy agency” in St. Louis.
St.Louis Post-Dispatch | Eminent domain gets the OK so St. Louis can try to keep spy agency
What city is trying to retain an employer by using eminent domain?
St. Louis may lose…
Move-On.org, home to online petitions, has 44 eminent domain petitions, the overwhelming majority oppose development.
The most popular anti-eminent domain sentiments:
What’s happening in new Hampshire? The key early voting Presidential state is expereiencing protests against a pipeline.
What’s the Republican govenror saying? The Governor has not taken a position.
What are Republicans saying? Opposed to the taking of private land.
Are there othere issues that contribute to the protests? Yes, environmentalists are concerned about conservation land that the pipeline will traverse.
Union Leader | Pipeline opponents give governor an earful at…
Farmers in West Texas aren’t pleased with pipelines that are being built to bring product to and from Mexico. The farmers focus on 2 national trends: