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York County Landowners Win Injunction To Halt Eminent ... Domain For Keystone XL Pipeline

 

Feb 26, 2015   By: sixonline Email

 

 

 

"TransCanada was forced to stop using eminent domain for private gain by the Nebraska courts and the landowners who have the courage to stand up to a foreign corporation," said Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb. "If TransCanada wants to show they are being a 'good neighbor,' then they will stop sending endless contract proposals and allow the legal process to take place without their constant harassment of landowners."

 

Continue reading at ….. http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/York-County-Landowners-Win-Injunction-To-Halt-Eminent-Domain-For-TransCanadas-Keystone-XL-Pipeline-294215851.html

 

 

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Nebraska Judge Stops TransCanada from Using Eminent Domain for Keystone XL

   

Newsweek Feb 13, 2015   By Zoë Schlanger

 

 

Filed Under: U.S., Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL, Nebraska, TransCanada

Last month, a Nebraska Supreme Court decision approved a route for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline through the state. That decision effectively allowed TransCanada, the pipeline company, to begin issuing eminent domain papers to landowners in the way. But a fresh lawsuit brought by nearly 70 landowners has spurred a Nebraska judge to halt TransCanada’s eminent domain proceedings, the Huffington Post reported Thursday.

 

“TransCanada sees the writing on the wall,” Jane Kleeb, director of Bold Nebraska, a group fighting the pipeline, said in a statement following the judge’s decision to issue an injunction. “Nebraska landowners are not going to cave to their threats and we will now see them in our Supreme Court to finally get clarity on the legality of a foreign corporation using eminent domain for private gain.”

 

The injunction temporarily bars TransCanada from forcing any holdout landowner to sell rights to their land, even if they were not one of the 70 landowners included in the lawsuit.   Continue reading at ….. http://www.newsweek.com/nebraska-judge-stops-transcanada-using-eminent-domain-keystone-xl-306774

 

 

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Oh, Canada

 

 

With All Eyes on Keystone, Another Tar Sands Pipeline Just Crossed the Border

  

By Zoë Schlanger / November 25, 2014 8:44 AM EST  Newsweek

 

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/05/all-eyes-keystone-another-tar-sands-pipeline-just-crossed-border-286685.html

 

 

   

 

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Timeline Photos

 

Facebook  February 14, 2015

 

A Nebraska judge has halted TransCanada's use of eminent domain to force landowners to turn over their land for the construction of the Keystone XL.

 

https://www.facebook.com/TheOther98/photos/a.115969958413991.17486.114517875225866/1005720396105605/

 

 

 

 

 

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