...unless your name is Big Oil. Rep. Kristi Noem and her House colleagues approved H.R. 1433, the Private Property Rights Protection Act, on a voice vote last week. The bill includes this encouraging language on the sense of Congress that…
Posts tagged as “eminent domain”
Rep. Kristi Noem continues to cry that letting TransCanada seize American farmers' land to raise our gas prices is "Right for America." At least one Texas landowner and one Texas judge disagree. County Judge Bill Harris has blocked construction on…
The South Dakota House takes up House Bill 1111 this afternoon. HB 1111 doesn't get rid of the use of eminent domain by private corporations. But it establishes a clear procedure that railroad and pipeline companies must follow in seeking…
Republicans and Big Oil thought they were so clever shoehorning a rushed 60-day approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline into the payroll tax cut extension last month. Calgary investment house FirstEnergy Capital disagrees: In a research note to clients…
Madison is wasting more than six million dollars on an unnecessary gym. But in a bit of cosmic fiscal karma, the State Department has made my week by deciding to delay the construction of the unnecessary and un-American Keystone XL…
I've been reading the Department of State's Final Environmental Impact Statement on TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Numerous commentators are focusing their criticism on the FEIS's environmental analysis. I want to take a look at the section on socioeconomic impacts.…
If a Congressman sponsors a bill on a topic, we rightfully expect the Congressman to know more than we do about the topic. Congressman Lee Terry from Omaha, Nebraska, sponsored H.R. 1938, legislation that would require the Executive Branch to…
Pipelines kill or injure people more frequently on American soil (once a week) than Islamoterrorists. They definitely do more damage than a certain sensationalized and acquitted defendant in Florida (whose name I refuse to blog on charges of irrelevance to…