Welcome to the Future!
Who: Joint forces of private property rights advocates & environmentalists
What: Protesting the Constitution Pipeline in New York
Why does this matter? Because this trend was started by Texans. Willie Nelson headlined a concert protesting Keystone XL Pipeline.
What they’re saying:
Watershed Post: Scores protest pipelines at rally in…
Pointing to a new forced annexation of 87 square miles and 52,000 Texans in San Antonio, the Texas Public Policy Foundation proposes passage of annexation reform.
TPPF backed SB 1639 and HB 2221 from the 2015 Texas Legislature. These were good reforms for these 4 reasons:
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…
In Mississippi, the Republican candidate for Senate district 37, wants voters to know she is pro private propety rights and supports eminent domain reform.
The Republican says her opponent, the former state Senator back in 2009 “sided with Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, who had vetoed a bill that would limit eminent domain. Barbour argued the limitation would hurt economic development, and Dearing agreed.”
Mississippi voters later approved eminent domain reforms in 2011.
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…
California legislature passed a bill to protect property owners from drones filing within 350 feet above their property. Very pro-private property rights legislation.
This measure, Senate Bill 142 , was vetoed by Governor Jerry Brown. The Governor is concerned that drone operators will be exposed to litigation.
Courthouse News Service: Drone Regulations Grounded in California
Dr. Mark Miller, the 2014 Libertarian nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner, and announced his candidacy for Texas Railroad Commissioner in 2016. From his statement:
“Among them were appropriate regulations for wastewater wells that trigger earthquakes and eminent domain abuse by common carrier pipelines. Sadly, regulations promulgated by the Commission under Porter’s watch turned out to be nothing more than window-dressing, resulting in additional bureaucratic busy-work, but with no…
Club for Growth, the fiscal conservative group, put out a White Paper on Trump.
Connecting the dots, HotAir explains that to build a border wall, requires that land be acquired. Acquiring land by a governmental entity, lends itself to eminent domain when landowners aren’t willing to give up their land.
Eminent Domain for a border wall is being called: