TransCanada is going with the controversial "eminent domain" claim to get this pipeline built.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...120-story.html
Quote:
TransCanada Corp., the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, filed eminent domain proceedings against an estimated 90 Nebraska landowners Tuesday to secure the right to build the controversial project across their property...
“It’s our land,” said Allpress, whose farm has been in her husband’s family since 1886. “This is a foreign-owned company coming in and exercising eminent domain against our will for a project we believe is of no benefit to the United States. TransCanada has behaved like bullies with threatening tactics.”...
Crumly said her family first heard from TransCanada when a company representative called at 9:30 p.m. a few years ago to tell them that the planned route would go through their land. At the time, she said, TransCanada made them an offer that was less than the price of a set of tires for an irrigation rig.
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Now I'm no expert in the pipeline business, or anything else unfortunately, but this seems like an awfully bad PR move. It smells like another 60 Minutes segment in the making.
My family has owned land in Alberta for more than a hundred years. Turn the story around and I just can't imagine why we (or my ultra-conservative Grandpa, if he were still around) would let (for example) an oil company from Texas build a pipeline through that land on its way to a port on the Atlantic.
Why would we?
Now sure, if the reason was "They'll give us lots of money", I could understand that. But if they aren't...