Posted on 02/19/2014 2:16:51 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
A Nebraska judge ruled Wednesday that the state violated its constitution when it allowed the governor to approve the route of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a decision that could significantly delay the $5.3 billion project.
District Court judge Stephanie F. Stacy blocked Gov. Dave Heineman (R) and other defendants “from taking any action on the governor’s January 22, 2013 approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline route,” such as allowing land to be acquired by eminent domain for the project.
Stacy concluded that the state legislature’s decision to take the siting power away from its Public Service Commission and give it Heineman violated the state’s constitution. More than 200 miles of the TransCanada pipeline, which would carry heavy crude oil from Canada to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico, runs through Nebraska.
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Gee ... Get with the program. You want jobs for American or not?
People here don’t care about property rights in this case. Just steal the land, and get it built I guess. Know good people on both sides this. Many have no desire to have a pipeline on their land. Others are worried about the risks and have been screwed before.
judges need to be put back in their place, they are not Emperor Palpatine
full agreement GeronL. They are not our rulers ... Truth be known, our rulers are not our rulers. We the People are the rulers. Time these people that think they rule us learned that Americans do not like where they are leading.
Wow. Just wow. Was the Kelo decision to seize private land for non public use a good one? Seems I remember a lot of people mad about it then, but I guess private property only matters if you’re it is yours they want to take.
It is not my property, but I tend to be sympathetic to folks that are forced to comply with government dictates, especially when a portion of their property is seized in the name of eminent domain.
Get Real ... In some respects I shall agree ... On this One ... NO.
“All land owners are compensated for their land and its usage. That never changes ... “
Compensated, yes.
However, being forced into a sale of one’s property against one’s will is not a free market.
Am seeing you cannot answer a simple question. I’ll put the question to you again ... Do you want Jobs for Americans or Not?
oh please. So I had a typo. I’m sure you’ve never had a typo. So instead of responding to the fact that beef is selling at record highs...you focus on how I spelled ‘herd’.
Never said I was a rancher. Never said I was a cow girl. I was talking about the business of raising and selling beef.
So mosey off please and find someone else’s spelling to critique.
The herds a low for many reasons. There was a bad drought, and the Texas herds are rebuilding. Many shipped their cows south. And would you want a herd when people want to seize your land in the name of a Canadian firm? During a drought?
The herds a low for many reasons. There was a bad drought, and the Texas herds are rebuilding. Many shipped their cows south. And would you want a herd when people want to seize your land in the name of a Canadian firm? During a drought?
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Oh I don’t think I disagree w/ what you’re saying about reasons some ranchers are reducing the size of their herds.
The point I was so poorly making is that ranchers could have larger herds for ranches up north..say WA, OR, ID, WY, NE, MT...as examples...because we are not being hit harder than normal w/ weather related issues.
Having a pipeline or the prospect of having a pipeline run through my grazing land would...especially if I was not adequately paid for the land...or if I was ‘forced’ to sell land I didn’t want to sell...WOULD make me hesitant about having a large herd. But to say that because herds are low that ranchers should be happy to sell land...that’s the point I disagree with.
If you want to sell your property...then you should sell your property. I’m not anti-pipeline. I’m against government seizing private property w/o a particularly compelling reason. I don’t think the Canadian pipeline across US land is a compelling reason.
If the Canadians want to export to China...why aren’t they building the pipeline across their country to a British Columbia seaport?
I bet you believe your property is more important than my job.
Only if you are obama, or in his administration do I believe I am more important than you but you still refuse to answer the question ... The question is a simple yes or no. Why do you wish to talk circles?
I may owe you an apology. If I do owe you an apology .. you have my apology. May not have interpreted what you were actually doing ...
Ho, I’ve seen your kind many times. Always blaming Conservatives and saying we want to use our guns. You need an attitude adjustment. I’ve put up with that kind of talk for years from ones just like you. You show me where I said, *Start Shooting*, if you can’t show me where I said, *Start Shooting* I’m warning you ... Back Off! I might not (smile) next time and for the moment I’m smiling.
Yes, that is exactly the point. I can’t imagine that the jurisdiction of this Commission is in the state constitution. But it may be. I don’t know.
The question is not whether we build a pipeline, but whether we follow our due processes and written constitutions.
Maybe the judge is full of it. Maybe she isn’t.
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