Judge rules for North Dakota landowner in pipeline dispute
“A judge has dismissed Montana-Dakota Utilities’ eminent domain lawsuit over a proposed half-mile natural gas pipeline in northern North Dakota, a decision hailed by landowner attorneys as a rare victory. North Central District Judge…
Letter to the Editor: Mike Foote: Forced pooling threatens our open space
“The prospect of oil and gas drilling on Boulder County open space is alarming and has been covered extensively in the Daily Camera over the last several months. Just as pernicious, but not as…
Pipeline protesters vow ‘huge fight’ against Trump
“Dakota Access pipeline protest group Bold Iowa bashed action taken by President Trump Tuesday to expedite completion of the controversial pipeline, as well as re-start the Keystone Pipeline. Trump’s executive order will allow work to…
Nebraska lawmakers introduce bills that would end public power companies’ monopoly, use of eminent domain
“Nebraska legislators introduced a deluge of energy-related bills at the Capitol last week, including one that threatens to challenge public power’s primacy in the state, and two others that would introduce sweeping changes to the…
Beyond Standing Rock: As Pipelines Proliferate Across the U.S., So Do Protests
“Hundreds of miles from the North Dakota pipeline protests that garnered headlines this fall, a woman in Iowa stood in her soy bean field, trying to block industrial mowers about to cut down her crops….
Company planning to build gas pipeline through coastal Georgia
“A 360-mile pipeline carrying gasoline, diesel and ethanol could stretch across the length of Coastal Georgia by 2017, connecting an existing pipeline running through South Carolina to Jacksonville. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, the third largest…
TransCanada Is Seizing People’s Land To Build Keystone, But Conservatives Have Been Dead Silent
“For Julia Trigg Crawford, watching TransCanada construct the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline on a corner of her 600-acre farm was “gut-wrenching.” Crawford, who lives in Direct, Texas, had been trying since 2011…
Deerfield adds US Department of Energy as defendant in action against gas pipeline
“A federal tort action filed by the town against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this month has been amended to add the U.S. Department of Energy to the complaint as a defendant. Under the…
Farmers on both sides of eminent domain debate
“A number of pipeline and power line projects have been proposed in Midwest states in recent months, and there are farmers lined up on both sides of the issue. The projects themselves are in various…
Judge OKs eminent domain for pipeline
“The proposed Constitution Pipeline project has taken a major advance forward, with a federal judge granting it eminent domain rights to easements on properties whose owners had been resisting right-of-way agreements. Pipeline construction is now…