[private lands cannot be seized without compensation]
[compensation is only market value (if even that). It does not take into
account family farm legacy, the necessity for clean water (as mentioned below),
or any nostalgia or memories]
> TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law,
> which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use
> without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation
> that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of
> the landowners who joined in the suit.
Michele
> On Jan 21, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Darryl McMahon wrote:
>
> http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/01/20/faced-land-seizures-defiant-nebraskans-vow-halt-keystone-xl
>
> Published on Tuesday, January 20, 2015
> by Common Dreams
> Faced With Land Seizures, Defiant Nebraskans Vow to Halt Keystone XL
>
> 'Our land is not for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see
> their tail lights go back across our border.'
> by Nadia Prupis, staff writer
>
> As Canadian energy company TransCanada filed eminent domain claims against
> Nebraska landowners on Tuesday for the construction of the controversial
> Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, families whose properties are on the verge of
> forced seizure say they will do whatever is necessary to shut down the
> project.
>
> Landowners from Nebraska's York and Holt counties last week filed suit
> against TransCanada to stall or even stop construction of the Keystone XL
> pipeline through their state. On Tuesday, they continued to call on President
> Barack Obama to veto the project altogether.
>
> "Today, Nebraska families are facing an inconceivable moment when land that
> has been in their hands for generations is being taken away from them by a
> foreign oil company," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb stated in a press
> release. "Landowners will match TransCanada’s lawsuits in local courts and
> continue to take our fight to the one person who can put an end to all of
> this: President Obama."
>
> Obama has promised to veto legislation that would force the approval of the
> Keystone XL pipeline; Senate Republicans have vowed to get the pipeline
> approved as one of their first acts of 2015.
>
> TransCanada's use of the "unconstitutional and void" eminent domain law,
> which gives the government the right to seize private lands for public use
> without compensation, is "another bullying move by the foreign corporation
> that swears they are going to be a good neighbor," said Jim Tarnick, one of
> the landowners who joined in the suit.
>
> "From the Kalamazoo to the Yellowstone rivers and all across the United
> States, tar sands are a horrible danger and threat that the President must
> reject," Tarnick added.
>
> Bold Nebraska noted that public support for the Keystone XL pipeline has
> waned over time, with only 41 percent approving of the project in a recent
> poll.
>
> Yet while landowners, the president, and the public at large continue to
> speak out against the pipeline, former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, who
> approved Keystone construction in the state, "abus[ed] the powers of his
> office" by taking authority away from the people of Nebraska and giving it to
> himself "to approve a pipeline and give a foreign corporation the power of
> eminent domain before they have all their permits in place," the lawsuit
> states.
>
> "While we fight to ensure TransCanada and the state of Nebraska do not run
> roughshod over farmers and ranchers, we also call upon President Obama to
> reject Keystone XL now," Kleeb said last week.
>
> Meghan Hammond, a landowner whose clean energy project would have to be torn
> down for the construction of the pipeline, stated on Tuesday: "We can not
> survive as a family business without clean water. Our government has no
> solution to clean up tar sands and benzene from our water. Our land is not
> for sale and we will keep fighting TransCanada until we see their tail lights
> go back across our border."
>
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