Posted on 04/03/2015 4:49:03 PM PDT by FewsOrange
At first reading I’m with the landowners on this one.
Fyi
Don’t worry, our elected officials will protect us. Even against oil or gas corporations.
Yep.
The results will lay out a proposed plan and each landowner will be more than reasonably paid ... either up front or as a royalty, lay a pipeline that ... if it REALLY bothers you ... PAINT the damned thing.
WV mountain folk are a stubborn lot, and sometimes unreasonably so.
Been there, done that, got the T shirt
Except they're going to lose.
I they don't have it already, the pipeline will have common carrier status -- open to transporting gas from various suppliers and delivering it to any terminal that is economically viable.
The argument that it's not for "public use" isn't going to hold water.
Besides which, I've never understood landowners' objection to a pipeline. They get money for the right-of-way, the construction crew crosses the property once and buries the pipe. And everything is as before, except the landowner has a check.
People walking around their land might find the still....
Sometimes compensation is fair, sometimes not. Usually if it is a private company they will pay well. Sometimes Govt pays well (after all it is only tax money), other times Govt stiffs the land owners.
They might get a better response if they give an estimated price up front.
Problem is that these natural gas companies have been known to rip off property owners in the worst possible way. That’s why they’re so distrusted.
Webster County. Folks might get shot there.
My default is to be with the homeowners on this.
In the case of a golf course, it would make sense to have a pipe under it. My guess is some of the owners have corporate addresses and the letter was lost.
I used to draw maps and property plats for gas pipelines. There were always a few looneytunes holdouts who thought they were going to become millionaires for letting a pipeline cross their property.
The breadth and length of a pipeline might take 80% to 90% of some properties. Not everyone owns 1,000+ acres.
If the pipeline company does not have the power of condemnation, it’s not likely they will succeed.
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We need to see a map to even form a valid opinion on this.
I doubt that the nature of the properties in question is such that the pipe will ultimately have a great effect on most of the land owners.
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This makes sense for utility and transportation lines.
Without having eminent domain for these purposes it would be very difficult to build the roads, transmission lines, fiber optics, water systems, etc. that are necessary in a developed country.
Huh? 8” pipes and 2-3ft offsets is what I remember.
Very difficult. You mean impossible.
If property owner could hold out for immense sumes or prevent construction entirely, then nothing could ever be built.
The Founders knew this, which is why they allowed for takings, if compensated.
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