tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76683703899064509322024-02-19T00:33:58.720-08:00KENTUCKY - NO EMINENT DOMAINAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437797232071355069noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7668370389906450932.post-38517646668942489692014-09-11T05:16:00.001-07:002016-03-16T08:24:34.225-07:00Judge Rules - Dominion's "BLUEGRASS PIPELINE" cannot use Eminent Domain<h1 dir="ltr" itemprop="headline" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.wlky.com/news/judge-rules-bluegrass-pipeline-cannot-use-eminent-domain/25160488" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Bluegrass Pipeline cannot use eminent domain</span></a></h1>
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<strong><span style="font-size: small;">Says purpose doesn't match state's requirements</span></strong></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: 0pt;">Franklin Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd wrote in his opinion that private companies </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">can only enlist the help of eminent domain with an explicit mandate from the state</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Landowners have sued the company, complaining its representatives have been </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">threatening the use of eminent domain to force them to sell their properties and </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">accept lower prices.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Bluegrass remains free to build its pipeline by acquiring easements from willing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">property </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">owners,” Judge Shepherd wrote. “However, Bluegrass cannot invoke the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">sovereig</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">n power </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">of eminent domain to threaten or intimidate, or even suggest to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">landowners </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">who have </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">no desire to sell, that Bluegrass has the right to take their </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">property without their conse</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0pt; line-height: 12pt;">nt.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><br /></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">Bluegrass Pipeline Company had argued it had the right to invoke eminent domain,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which gives the government the right to force property owners to sell their property. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They pointed to a Kentucky law that allows eminent domain for oil and natural gas </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">for “public use.”</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the landowners argued there was a difference between natural gas used as a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">utility for heating homes and the natural gas liquids being transported in the pipeline, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;">which are used to make plastics and other products.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They also argued the pipeline was not for public use but for the company’s private gain, </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">because the product was being transported through Kentucky for distribution and export </span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">elsewhere.</span></span></div>
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