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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
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?
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If it's approved by the regulator, the landowner doesn't have any choice.
Eminent domain is effectively the same as a Right of Entry Order from the Surface Rights Board in Alberta.
Your grandpa would have no choice in the matter.