{"id":404,"date":"2015-11-15T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/11\/15\/one-state-treats-natural-gas-pipes-differently-than-petroleum-pipelines-one-needs-willing-buyers-the-other-not-so-much\/"},"modified":"2015-11-15T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T22:14:00","slug":"one-state-treats-natural-gas-pipes-differently-than-petroleum-pipelines-one-needs-willing-buyers-the-other-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/one-state-treats-natural-gas-pipes-differently-than-petroleum-pipelines-one-needs-willing-buyers-the-other-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"One State Treats Natural Gas Pipes Differently than Petroleum Pipelines. One needs Willing Buyers. The Other&#8211; not so Much."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does an oil pipeline have to do that a natural gas pipeline doesn&#8217;t have to do for eminent domain approval?<\/strong>\u00a0A pipeline that carries\u00a0gasoline, diesel and ethanol\u00a0must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get Georgia DOT approval and<\/li>\n<li>Be approved by Georgia&#8217;s Environmental Protection Division\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Has this been a hurdle?<\/strong>\u00a0yes, it has stopped a pipeline by Kinder Morgan. The comapny is now working to gain all willing sellers for the land needed for its pipeline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there litigation?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, Kinder Morgan has asked for court approval after state agencies denied their eminent domain power request.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are other states looking to increase the requirements before eminent domain can be used by private comapnies?<\/strong>\u00a0yes, South Carolina is seeking to emulate the additional requirements that Georgia has in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/news\/2015-11-14\/lunches-lobbyists-and-gifts-smooth-path-pipeline#\">Savannah Morning News |\u00a0Lunches, lobbyists and gifts smooth path for Palmetto Pipeline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does an oil pipeline have to do that a natural gas pipeline doesn&#8217;t have to do for eminent domain approval?<\/strong>\u00a0A pipeline that carries\u00a0gasoline, diesel and ethanol\u00a0must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get Georgia DOT approval and<\/li>\n<li>Be approved by Georgia&#8217;s Environmental Protection Division\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Has this been a hurdle?<\/strong>\u00a0yes, it has stopped a pipeline by Kinder Morgan. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4,14,6,28,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easement","category-legal-trend","category-legislation-trend","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-private-company","category-public-use-or-benefit","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}