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Iamsemisweet -> RE: Repubs hold the middle class hostage over a fucking pipeline (12/13/2011 7:34:48 AM)
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That is actually not the case. There are situations where private companies have been given eminent domain rights. In the 90s, for example, when private companies were laying the fiber optic system, they had the right of eminent domain, I represented a couple of land owners in disputes where the cable had been laid on their land, without their permission. They had no redress except to accept payment. The payment didn't come from the gov., it came from Sprint, as I recall
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
A quick question about the pipeline.
I have heard from those on the right that it won't cost the taxpayers a dime. Tis a good thing but I have a question.
Who will buy the land? Eminent Domain is a governmental privelege.
Exxon or whoever is building the line cannot exercise eminent domain in the event one or more property owners don't want to play ball.
That would be the job of the federal government and that costs a buncha money. It also opens up the nasty fact of a governmental body excercising eminent domain so that a private corporation can make money. I didn't like it when it was done a couple of years ago for a developer and I don't like it for this purpose either.
Would the government be building the line and then leasing it to the oil company? If so, that's a bunch of our tax dollars at work but at least there is a possibility of a profit.
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