TransCanada Corp. (TRP) was sued by Nebraska landowners in a new bid to block the Keystone XL pipeline a week after the state’s highest court rebuffed an attempt to void the approved path across the state, a leg that would complete the route from Alberta tar sands to Gulf Coast refineries. Dual complaints were filed Friday against the Calgary-based company in state courts in York and O’Neill, Nebraska, by David Domina, the lawyer whose prior effort to halt construction of the 1,179-mile (1,897-kilometer) conduit was defeated by a cadre of judges who ruled his clients hadn’t established their legal right to sue.
The earlier lawsuit was aimed at now-former Republican Governor Dave Heineman, whom the landowners claimed was illegally given the authority by lawmakers approve the Keystone XL route. The new cases target the company trying to build it, and its right to appropriate property in its path.
“We believe TransCanada does not have a lawful route across the state,” and no right to use the power of eminent domain, Domina said Friday in a phone interview.
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Poster Comment:
The GOP tramples landowners private property rights for profitability of foreign corporations.
