{"id":621,"date":"2016-08-25T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2016\/08\/25\/was-peach-states-eminent-domain-ban-authored-by-a-supporter-of-pipelines\/"},"modified":"2016-08-25T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:56:00","slug":"was-peach-states-eminent-domain-ban-authored-by-a-supporter-of-pipelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/was-peach-states-eminent-domain-ban-authored-by-a-supporter-of-pipelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Peach State&#39;s Eminent Domain Ban Authored by a Supporter of Pipelines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it was. State Representative Hitchens in a pipeline supporter &amp; author of the 1 year ban on eminent domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why? What pushed him over the edge?<\/strong>\u00a0A private property rights supporter, a veteran, a retired law enforcement officer,\u00a0a wildife supporter, and it had been 23 years since Georgia grnated private companies the power of eminent domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 23 year time span since authorization was the tipping point?<\/strong>\u00a0Partly, Yes.\u00a0Technologies have changed on pipeline safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What landowner stories impacted the legislator?<\/strong>\u00a0A land owner whose family had owned the same land since its original grant in 1753 from the King of England.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does this Republican have an opinion on taking private property for a private enterprise, like a pipeline?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, he is against it, but he understands the need for government use of eminent domain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southeastenergynews.com\/2016\/08\/22\/qa-eminent-domain-and-the-georgia-pipeline-debate\/\">Southeast Energy News |\u00a0Q&amp;A: Eminent domain and the Georgia pipeline debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it was. State Representative Hitchens in a pipeline supporter &amp; author of the 1 year ban on eminent domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why? What pushed him over the edge?<\/strong>\u00a0A private property rights supporter, a veteran, a retired law enforcement officer,\u00a0a wildife supporter, and it had been 23 years since Georgia grnated private companies the power of eminent domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 23 year time span since authorization was the tipping point?<\/strong>\u00a0Partly, Yes.\u00a0Technologies have changed on pipeline safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What landowner&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\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-621","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\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}