{"id":497,"date":"2016-03-11T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/03\/11\/what-witnesses-said-to-committee-supporting-eminent-domain-moratorium-that-passed\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:51:00","slug":"what-witnesses-said-to-committee-supporting-eminent-domain-moratorium-that-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/what-witnesses-said-to-committee-supporting-eminent-domain-moratorium-that-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"What Witnesses Said to Committee Supporting Eminent Domain Moratorium that Passed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As loyal subscribers know, 2 state legislatures enacted\u00a0moratoriums on eminent domain, specifially eminent domain used by private entities, like pipelines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dig into what supporting testimony for these moratoriums looked like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No eminent domain for private gain\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;it is morally wrong for a for-profit company to make money off of my hard labor for its investors&#8221; -a 270 acre property owner<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eminent Domain Created Unfair Competition\u00a0<\/strong>some state oil and gas companies said, we&#8217;ve never used eminent domain, and now this outside company wants to use eminent domain and compete against us\n<ul>\n<li>We\u2019ve earned our business the old-fashioned way. If we needed property, we bought it,\u201d- a local oil and gas company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The best offense, is a good defense.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jacksonville.com\/news\/georgia\/2016-02-23\/story\/witnesses-tell-house-subcommittee-they-favor-moratorium-petroleum\">Florida Times Union |\u00a0Witnesses tell House subcommittee they favor moratorium on petroleum pipelines in Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As loyal subscribers know, 2 state legislatures enacted\u00a0moratoriums on eminent domain, specifially eminent domain used by private entities, like pipelines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s dig into what supporting testimony for these moratoriums looked like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No eminent domain for private gain\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;it is morally wrong for a for-profit company to make money off of my hard labor for its investors&#8221; -a 270 acre property owner<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eminent Domain Created Unfair Competition\u00a0<\/strong>some state oil and gas companies said, we&#8217;ve never&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,28,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation-trend","category-pipelines-common-carriers","category-private-company","category-private-property-rights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}