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TransCanada threatens eminent domain for pipeline
News Articles Featured | American Independent | April 15, 2011
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TransCanada, the company that owns the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas, is once again threatening landowners with eminent domain proceedings if they don’t sell the rights to place the pipeline on their property.
AP reports:
“A Canadian company has again threatened U.S. landowners with court action if they don’t sell the property rights it needs to build an oil pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico.
TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) was criticized last summer for mentioning eminent domain in letters to landowners over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.”
The project has yet to be approved by the State Department. Last year, Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska demanded that TransCanada stop threatening the use of eminent domain before they even have approval for the project, but the company rejected that demand.
Landowners in both Oklahoma and Texas have filed lawsuits to prevent the use of eminent domain for the project.
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