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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline’s destructive path
This Grist article discusses the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would divide mountains, farmland, and sacred Native American land along its 600-mile route, but it’s uniting a diverse community of activists determined to halt its progress.
The pink ribbons start in northern West Virginia. Tied to flimsy wooden posts stuck a […]
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Opinion: Why natural gas is not the answer to climate change?
This Houston Chronicle opinion piece discusses why natural gas is not the answer to global warming. Don’t believe the hype — producing natural gas is producing enormous problems for Texas.
The huge amount of water required for gas extraction, the frequent and damaging wastewater spills and earthquakes linked to disposal, the
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When Fracking Companies Own the Gas Beneath Your Land
This ProPublica article chronicles the legal battles when fracking companies own the gas beneath your land. Natural gas companies have cut down forests and paved over farms on West Virginia private lands, calling it “reasonably necessary” to access subsurface gas they own the rights to.
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How eminent domain is blighting farmers in path of gas pipeline
This The Guardian article discusses how eminent domain is blighting farmers in path of gas pipeline. Compulsory purchase – or the threat of it – of property on the route of a pipeline for fracked natural gas has left a slew of grievances and lawsuits in West Virginia and […]
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Oil or property rights: House panel clashes over which to favor as it weighs eminent domain reforms
This article discusses the debate in Texas over eminent domain reforms. Oil or property rights: House panel clashes over which to favor as it weighs eminent domain reforms. Several bills meant to protect Texas landowners facing condemnation for oil pipeline construction and electric transmission projects generated heated debate on Thursday at […]
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Virginia has a pipeline problem
This opinion piece, by Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General, opines that Virginians have a pipeline problem.
In Shipman, Va., a family that has held its homestead for generations, tending graves of ancestors and buildings erected by great-great grandfathers, struggles to understand why it must give its land to Dominion Energy.
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Retired Schoolteacher Sentenced to 2-6 Months After Sunoco Claims She Violated Court Order in Mariner East Pipeline Dispute
This article discusses how Sunoco had a retired schoolteacher arrested for fighting against their taking her land through eminent domain. The charge listed against her was a low-level contempt charge, but her case could also implicate much larger questions about property rights and eminent domain, questions that boil down […]
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Gas Pipelines in the Taylorsville Basin- What? No way! OMG!
Pipelines in the Taylorsville Basin? Wherever there are fracking wells, there are pipelines. So, if fracking is allowed in the Taylorsville Basin, there will be pipelines. Didn’t think about that? Probably also didn’t think about how the land will be acquired for the buried pipelines. Think Eminent Domain, where your land […]
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Video – Are Oil and Gas Pipelines for the Public Good?
This article links to a video from Beyond Extreme Energy.
Through the voices of those directly harmed, this video introduces eminent domain abuses.
Check out our first video in an educational series meant to engage the public on issues related to FERC, fracking, and extreme energy. Please share it far and […]
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Landowners Question If Pipeline Companies Seizing Land to Export Oil and Gas Counts as ‘Public Good’
This article discusses the abuse of eminent domain by companies and our government in taking land for pipelines that send fracked gas overseas.
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