Last stand: Nebraska farmers could derail Keystone XL pipeline

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters




Wed Apr 19, 2017 | 3:03pm EDT

By Valerie Volcovici | NELIGH, NEBRASKA
When President Donald Trump handed TransCanada Pipeline Co. a permit for its Keystone XL pipeline last month, he said the company could now build the long-delayed and divisive project "with efficiency and with speed."

But Trump and the firm will have to get through Nebraska farmer Art Tanderup first, along with about 90 other landowners in the path of the pipeline.

They are mostly farmers and ranchers, making a last stand against the pipeline - the fate of which now rests with an obscure state regulatory board, the Nebraska Public Service Commission.

The group is fine-tuning an economic argument it hopes will resonate better in this politically conservative state than the environmental concerns that dominated the successful push to block Keystone under former President Barack Obama.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-keystone-insight-idUSKBN17L2HK

[kimbutgar]

1. Eminent domain could be the thing that puts a dent in rethug support

Those border state landowners will create the backlash also over chumps idiotic wall.

[christx30]

2. Trump has always been very pro eminent domain,

and made no secret about it. Mentioned it several times in the debates. They still voted for the idiot.

[Norbert]

3. The progressives need to lead with this message.

The right has used the "there takin' away r gunz" to scare the shit out of the rural voters for a generation or more.

Now what is worse than "they're taking away our farms, our homes, our land." I would think the farmers and landowners that are not impacted by this would be outraged. God I hope so.

[notdarkyet]

5. Include a lot of ranchers on the borders. I lived down there. They have huge parcels of

Land. And they are all Repubs, at least those I know. Take their land with their second amendment rights on display 24 hrs day. They always carry. I doubt they cotton to the gubment taking their land, although some might be willing to give it up for the right money. Younger generation mostly don't want to do it. Hard work, Long days, seven days a week.

[Motley13]

4. they voted for this moron