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TransCanada Wins Right to Build Keystone XL Through Texas Family Farm
Posted by Bloomberg: Laurel Brubaker Calkins on August 28th, 2013
Bloomberg: TransCanada Corp. won a state appeals court ruling allowing it to lay the Keystone XL pipeline across a family farm in northeastern Texas, eliminating one of the last obstacles to completion of the southern leg of the Canadian tar-sands line. Julia Trigg Crawford claimed TransCanada lacked the right to use state eminent domain laws to cross her 600-acre family farm near the Oklahoma border without her permission. Crawford failed to convince the trial or appellate courts that Texas law grants condemnation...
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Keystone Pipeline Challenge Rejected by Top Texas Court
Posted by Bloomberg: Laurel Brubaker Calkins on April 19th, 2013
Bloomberg: TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s power to condemn land as a common carrier won’t be reviewed by the Texas Supreme Court in one of four state-court challenges against the Keystone XL pipeline, which will carry Canadian tar-sands oil to the Texas coast.
The Texas Supreme Court today refused to hear a challenge by Rhinoceros Ventures Group Inc., whose property lies near the industry refinery hub at Beaumont, Texas. The court denied the petition without comment.
The landowners had urged the court to use...