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Kentucky Legislature is debating whether to permit a proposed repurposing of an existing natural gas pipeline. The debate has brought to light 70 year old easements.
Clearly thoughts have changed in 70 years. The safety of the types of fluids that traverse the pipes, plus recent safety issues are weighing on legislators.
Here’s what one Kentucky legislator said publicly:
“I say that there should not be a legal argument that you have the right to take someone’s property to put a…
Once upon a time, Trump sought to use eminent domain against a widow’s home to obtain land to build a limo parking lot. Today the story is on the front of the Washington Post Style Section.
CATO: Donald Trump, Eminent Domain, and the Widow’s House
Washington Post: The time Donald Trump’s empire took on a stubborn widow — and lost
Information Intelligence Ausgust 27, 2015:
CATO, the libertarian leaning think tank, sounding the horn on Donald Trump and his reliance on eminent…
Bloomberg: The Tiny Town that Hates Elon Musk
Background: Boca Chica, with its 26 residents, is home to Space X launch site. Space X has a safety plan for launch days:
What the residents…
An Elgin community meeting about the Vista Regional Water Plan was laser focused on eminent domain. The citizen comments abou the Vista water pipleine to move water to San Antonio :
Pipeline protesting proliferates the Northern Plains. The most recent rally cry is a purchase of billboard ad space along the proposed route of a pipeline.
Dakota Rural Action purchased the billboards to get citizens engaged. The determination whether to award eminent domain to the common carrier in the permitting process.
Considering the string of recent denials of eminent domain authority to private entities, like a pipeline, in the last few months, the billboard ad buy is a smart…
CATO, the libertarian leaning think tank, sounding the horn on Donald Trump and his reliance on eminent domain.
The juicy bits:
Mississippi State Senator Mike Seymour entered the race for his seat due to his opposition to eminent domain and China…. In his words:
“”The thing that separates us from Russia and China and all is our property rights. I understand eminent domain for transportation and stuff like that but when it comes to economic development, it shouldn’t be the government taking your property and selling it to another entity to generate more tax revenue. That’s not America. It’s something that…
Rand Paul vows to focus on private property rights and eminent domain abuses to show why Trump is not in line with Republican primary voters.
What things are we going to hear?
He said/She said/They Said abounds with the TransPecos pipeline. Its like a love triangle with the drama of a telenovela: