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What transmission line is this state & federal legislative re-write concerning? The Plains and Eastern Clean Line high-voltage transmission, a clean energy line traversing Arkansas, Missouri & other central states
What caused the hoopla? Missouri & Arkansas chimed in when the transmission line sought eminent domain but wasn’t providing power within each state.
What are the arguments bandied about?
Which state is considering expanding the use of eminent domain? California
Why the push to expand eminetn domain use? To clean up blighted buildings through special districts called Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts
What do these Enhanced Infrastructure Financing Districts do with eminent domain? Combat urban blight with urban renewal projects
What does California Assembly Bill 2492 do? Expands the number of local governments that can access Enhanced infrastructure…
What the land owner attorney says about the eminent domain lawsuits for the pipeline to Mexico :
News West 9 | Pipeline company files eminent domain lawsuits against Big Bend landowners
Friday’s Texas Supreme Court orders included accepting Denbury. They’re back like the Terminator and Poltergiest rolled into one.
Which pipeline was scrapped citing legislative reasons? The Palmetto Pipeline set to run through South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
What caught the attention of the legislators and regulators? Whether a pipeline that traverses a state, without providing product to that state, can give the state a public benefit.
What was the action by the states on a legislative and regulatory level? Permits were denied & legislators paused the use of eminent domain by private entities so that the…
Which FERC denial triggered a lawyer brainstorming session? The denial of “Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P. (Jordan Cove) for authority under Section 3 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) to site, construct, and operate a facility at Coos Bay, Oregon, for the exportation, principally to Asia, of liquefied natural gas (LNG)”
What eminent domain issue to the lawyers point to? “the pipeline proposal’s impact on landowners and communities given the Pacific Connector’s need for eminent…
Kansas City needed a new police station & crime lab in a historically black neighborhood.
3 Reasons why property owners opposed eminent domain for an otherwise nobel purpose:
Know your opposition, like you know yourself.
A pipeline that will traverse South Carolina & Georgia has the 2 states pushing legislation to reign in eminent domain. Let’s look:
The South Carolina bill package will:
The Georgia bill will:
What issues are land owners raising in the 12 pending eminent domain lawsuits for the Trans Pecos pipeline?
Is this pipeline using eminent domain like every other pipeline in Texas using eminent domain? No, no one has ever built a pipeline like Trans Pecos with the purpose of selling natural gas to…
Which state is putting in new requirements for pre-condemnation surveying access for private companies that have eminent domain authority? West Virginia
What are the new requirements for pre-condemantion access? To receive pre-condemantion access to private property, the condeming entity must:
What sparked this bill? A court stopped precondemnation access for surveyors because public…