Rockies Express Pipeline Sues Ohio Property Owners To Take Their Land
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 06.18.08
Impacts of so-called "coal bed methane" projects do not stop with roads across several Western US States, noisy generators and compressors near ranches, and toxic wastewater overflows into trout streams. "Coal bed" methane (natural gas) distributors now need to take the land of Ohio farmers in order to pipe the natural gas eastward, to market.
An energy partnership building a natural-gas pipeline from Colorado to eastern Ohio is suing the owners of 77 properties across the state to take their land by eminent domain for the pipeline.See also::Farmers Fight Pipeline to Be Built through IllinoisThe federal Natural Gas Act allows private companies to use eminent domain to acquire property for natural-gas pipelines.
Via::DownStreamToday.com and Columbus Dispatch, Rockies Express Files Suit Against Ohio Landowners Image credit::corridor map for Eastern pipeline project, Rockies Express Pipeline
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Kinda weird to see them expanding east considering the massive find under Pennsylvania and New York.
Central Pennsylvania is simply crawling with Natural Gas representatives, engineers, etc.
so they want to take valuable crop land, raising the price of produce even more, to transport high priced natural gas. why wouldnt the government invest money in making electric power more readily available instead of going through a huge court case for this?
I live just north of this pipeline and I am vary upset about the toxic wastewater overflows into trout streams when you consider the fact that if you live in Ohio you are told not to eat more than 2 fish a week from our lakes and rivers because you risk mercury poison. Soon we wont be able to eat or grow anything in Ohio once we poison all the water.
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Clarification: the wastewater overflows happen in Wyoming and Colorado. Pipelines have different impacts.
I see the news on the PA coal findings but NY doesn't seem to have much of anything (less than $25m worth of coal). PA has some rather huge stockpiles however to say the least, but I thought that was already common knowledge?
Most of NY won't ever be touched however because of the massive national parks, native american lands (which you will be HARD PRESSED to get around), the cold winter weather and the numerous mountain chains. If I were doing anything in NY, it would probably be lumber and that's about it.
Since when does a buried pipeline 'take valuable cropland'? There are dozens of pipelines buried under the farmland in my county, and except for the occasional terminal or pumping station, you would never know they were there. Something buried 6 or 8 feet down isn't going to hurt the agricultural use of the land, except for the one season when it is under construction.
Pipeline companies offer reasonable payment for the easment under the land. They resort to eminent domain when the landowner objects.
Would you want to be denied electricity, gas, water or sewer service to your home because your neighbor objected to the lines being buried under their yard?
The proposed pipeline going thru Ohio will only be 5 foot deep in most agricultural areas and only 3 foot when they want to go across someones back yard. Would you like to be able to use your yard after buying the property as you see fit? I would and I have been dealing with these invaders for the last year. They have lied to us, supposedly threatened inspectors, and been not very trust worthy.