Pipelines and Eminent Domain [POLICYbrief]

How can American oil and gas companies access and transport the valuable resources beneath the ground while ensuring the protection of the landowner’s sacred rights to protect their own property? Jacki Deason, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, outlines this tension between pipeline construction and eminent domain and how some landowners have strengthened their rights.
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Differing views:
Current eminent domain laws are fair for landowners
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Texas landowners fight Kinder Morgan’s $2B pipeline proposal
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Pipeline Builders Abuse Eminent Domain
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The Role of Eminent Domain in the Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict
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[@UneedAname45]

I believe it is an abuse of eminent domain to use it for private businesses. It should only be used for public purposes.

[@evan1238]

Why did they not touch on the fact that in Kelo, the developer backed out post demolition of the houses- essentially leaving an empty lot in its wake?

[@ny1t]

It is important to recognize the difference between eminent domain and CRONY eminent domain. Eminent domain is government taking for public use. Crony eminent domain is government stealing one persons property to give to another. Justice Thomas said, "Defying this understanding, the court replaces the public use clause with the public purpose"

[@mrhappy7387]

Wow. This sounds like a defense of involuntary heirarchy. Make it look pretty and people will believe it, amirite?

[@bryanb.386]

Clarence Thomas is the only one who is nearly completely reliable to stick to the Constitution.

[@mistersauga716]

Kelo was wrong