Originally posted by roadgravel
Seizing lands for a pipeline?

There were 3 pipelines just built through my area, crossing several counties. The energy company paid landowners money in order to run the pipe across their land.

TransCanada seizing private land in Texas for pipeline, claims eminent domain

Originally posted by lobotomizemecapin
basically if the gov wants ur property its theirs

Originally posted by yuppa
first things first. Canad is not legally able to claim Imminent domain. Only the US government can claim it even if the "owners" sold the land to Trans canada. Second.The US can call the sales null and void and the company is out of money it spent buying it. Mexico does it all the time to people from other countries buying mexican land.

Eminent domain laws generally allow for the confiscation of private property if taking it is judged to serve a larger public good. These kinds of laws differ slightly from state to state as do the processes by which pipelines are approved and licensed. As a result, there is both debate and confusion over whether TransCanada has the right to use the courts to demand easements from property owners in advance of final approval for the project

A senior State Department official, who asked not to be identified because the permit process is continuing, said TransCanada had not sought federal approval to invoke eminent domain. He said the department had no authority on the issue and that it was up to state law and the courts to determine appropriate use of eminent domain laws.

But lawyers for the landowners, particularly in Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, argue that TransCanada has not met the requirements to invoke eminent domain under those states’ laws. In South Dakota, however, a judge has already ruled that TransCanada could use eminent domain to secure land for a previous pipeline project. .