{"id":242,"date":"2015-05-13T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/05\/13\/pipeline-to-mexico-through-texas-land-is-there-a-public-use\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T21:58:00","slug":"pipeline-to-mexico-through-texas-land-is-there-a-public-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/pipeline-to-mexico-through-texas-land-is-there-a-public-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipeline to Mexico Through Texas Land. Is there a public use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0143-mile Trans-Pecos pipeline will take West Texas gas to Mexico. To get there, it has to build a pipeline through lands owned by Texans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Say you&#8217;re a ranch owner, and you&#8217;re asked for a 50 foot easement for a pipeline that won&#8217;t deliver its goods to the U.S. Did the\u00a0Constitution contemplate a public use outside the U.S.?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A land owner quote from a meeting in Alpine, TX:\u00a0<span style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:26px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">\u201cIf it were supplying people in this state with fuel, I could better understand it,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cUsing eminent domain to [take over land] to supply another nation \u2014 I got my reservations about that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2015\/5\/13\/an-unlikely-alliance-in-texas-ranchers-and-environmentalists-fight-pipeline.html\">Al Jazeera America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0143-mile Trans-Pecos pipeline will take West Texas gas to Mexico. To get there, it has to build a pipeline through lands owned by Texans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Say you&#8217;re a ranch owner, and you&#8217;re asked for a 50 foot easement for a pipeline that won&#8217;t deliver its goods to the U.S. Did the\u00a0Constitution contemplate a public use outside the U.S.?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A land owner quote from a meeting in Alpine, TX:\u00a0<span style=\"font-family:'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;font-size:17px;line-height:26px;background-c...<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,2,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easement","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-private-property-rights","category-public-use-or-benefit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}