Keystone Pipeline: Texas Judge Gives TransCanada Approval To Condemn Land For Oil Project

[TexasTowelie]

PARIS, Texas (AP) — The developer of the disputed Keystone XL oil pipeline, planned to carry oil from Canadian tar sands to Texas Gulf Coast refineries, may condemn land across a northeast Texas farm for the pipeline's right of way, a judge ruled Wednesday.

In an email to attorneys Wednesday night, Lamar County Court-at-Law Judge Bill Harris ruled that the pipeline would be a common carrier and that TransCanada has eminent domain rights to right of way across the farm.

Messages left with TransCanada were not returned Wednesday night. However, landowner Julia Trigg Crawford planned to appeal the decision to a state district court in Paris, said Tom "Smitty" Smith, Texas director of the activist group Public Citizen that is part of the coalition fighting the pipeline project.

In a statement issued Wednesday night, Crawford said she was disappointed that Harris "wholly dismissed our entire case with a 15-word ruling sent from his iPhone."

More at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/keystone-xl-pipeline-texas_n_1824893.html?utm_hp_ref=green

[sonias]

1. Damn it!

Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!

[Ilsa]

2. It's shit like this that makes me root for

groups that perform acts of "hooliganism" and vandalism.

I hope she finds a way to, uh, disable it, if you know what I mean.

(Be wary of total information awareness.)

[redqueen]

3. Terrible news.

Fortunately the legislature has some work to do before all is said and done, and republicans don't like this either.

[white cloud]

4. All for China and Canada

[redqueen]

5. Some intrepid reporter should corner the legislators

on the Texas House Land and Resource Management Committee and the House Energy Management Committee and get their thoughts about this decision on record.

[TBF]

6. This ought to be posted in GD -

doesn't surprise me at all. One way or another they'll get their pipeline ...

[TexasTowelie]

7. I posted this article in LBN when it came out.

Here is the thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014204903

[TBF]

8. ...