Challenge to XL Keystone Pipeline Aims at Neb. Eminent Domain Law –

 

Courthouse News Service By TED WHEELER   Jan 20, 2015

 

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     (CN) - Landowners in two Nebraska counties sued TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, challenging the constitutionality of a state law that grants the Canadian oil giant eminent domain powers to complete its controversial Keystone XL pipeline.
     The law in question, LB 1161, also gives the governor the power to approve routing of the tar sands oil pipeline, though this responsibility is expressly granted to the Nebraska Public Service Commission in the state constitution, both complaints state.
     Lead plaintiff Terry Byron Steskal sued in Holt County, lead plaintiff Susan Dunavan in York County. Both virtually identical lawsuits were filed on Jan. 16. Both counties are in central Nebraska.
     Both claim that LB 1161 "unlawfully delegates to the governor the Legislature's plenary authority and responsibility to decide what designees of the Legislature may exercise the power of eminent domain." Continue reading at …. http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/01/20/challenge-to-xl-keystone-pipeline-aims-at-neb-eminent-domain-law.htm

 

 

 

 

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