Alberta-to-Texas Conveyance Hits a Wall of Resistance LE ROY, Ill. -- This expanse of central Illinois is flat as a pancake, with corn and soybean fields stretching to the horizon, interrupted only by a smattering of small towns.
But it is also a 175-mile missing link in Enbridge's Alberta-to-Texas pipeline network to transport gooey, thick bitumen oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries.
By connecting the southern Illinois oil transport hub of Patoka with an Enbridge pipeline near Pontiac, the Canadian firm, in partnership with Exxon Mobil, could beat out other companies that have also announced plans for pipelines connecting Canada to the Gulf Coast.
Several farmers are standing in Enbridge's way, however, refusing to let the company build the pipeline through their land. At a public meeting, Bob Kelly, 81, called Enbridge "highway robbers." He said there is no way he will allow the company to tear up farmland that has been in his family for 125 years. "It's not for sale at any price," he said.
Washington PostDuring the recent housing boom, so many developments were built on American farmland.
This story points to another facet of this admin actions rarely discussed and that’s the financial benefits that the state of Texas received under this admin.
Hopefully, this story will not fall off the radar for like of attention or lack concern about farmers. It will be interesting to watch and see when or if there will be an invocation of eminent domain in the name of interest of the public.