{"id":22175,"date":"2012-12-13T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=22175"},"modified":"2012-12-13T12:54:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:54:13","slug":"landowner-wins-restraining-order-against-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/12\/13\/landowner-wins-restraining-order-against-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Landowner Wins, Then Loses, Restraining Order Against Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22180\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/12\/11\/landowner-wins-restraining-order-against-keystone-xl-pipeline\/121129-mike-bishop\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22180\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22180\" title=\"121129-Mike-Bishop\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/12\/121129-Mike-Bishop-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/12\/121129-Mike-Bishop-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/12\/121129-Mike-Bishop.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Terrence Henry\/StateImpact Texas<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Bishop won a temporary retraining order against the Keystone XL pipeline today.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After East Texas\u00a0landowner\u00a0Mike Bishop won a\u00a0temporary\u00a0restraining order against the Keystone XL pipeline earlier this week, a Nacogdoches County judge\u00a0reversed\u00a0that order today.<\/p>\n<p>Ruling in favor of the\u00a0Canadian\u00a0company behind the controversial pipeline, TransCanada,\u00a0Nacogdoches County Court at Law Judge Jack Sinz reversed the restraining order, allowing TransCanada to continue construction on Bishop&#8217;s land. The two sides will meet in court again next week, when the County holds a hearing on December 19 to hear Bishop&#8217;s allegations of fraud against TransCanada. Bishop is also <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/12\/03\/landowner-fights-keystone-xl-pipeline-by-suing-the-state\/\">going after the state<\/a> for permitting the southern portion of the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t pick this fight, but I refuse to sit idly by while a multinational corporation tramples my rights and that of other landowners all along Keystone XL\u2019s path in the name of deepening its profits,\u201d landowner Mike Bishop said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original story, December 11:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Nacogdoches County Court granted a temporary restraining order to Texas landowner Mike Bishop today. The order will prevent the company\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/tag\/keystone-xl-pipeline\/\">TransCanada <\/a>from building the Keystone XL pipeline on Bishop\u2019s land until a scheduled injunction hearing next week.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The restraining order is part of an <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/12\/03\/landowner-fights-keystone-xl-pipeline-by-suing-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing battle<\/a> between Bishop and the company behind the pipeline. Bishop is also suing the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/tag\/railroad-commission-of-texas\/\">Texas Railroad Commission<\/a>\u00a0for granting TransCanada a permit to build.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Sinz of the Nacogdoches County Court granted Bishop the temporary restraining order saying, \u201cWithout a temporary restraining order, Plaintiff will suffer immediate and irreparable injury, a violation of his Constitutional rights as delineated by the Texas constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The temporary restraining order expires the day of the temporary injunction hearing next week. At that time, a decision will be made on whether or not to further stall construction on the property. Grievances have been made in Texas and Oklahoma regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/04\/19\/lives-on-the-line-landowners-fight-keystone-xl-and-eminent-domain\/\" target=\"_blank\">TransCanada\u2019s use of eminent domain to pressure landowners<\/a> to allow easements on their land. Bishop maintains that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/12\/03\/landowner-fights-keystone-xl-pipeline-by-suing-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">TransCanada mislead Texas landowners<\/a>\u00a0about the project and doesn\u2019t have the authority to use eminent domain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> TransCanada will fight the\u00a0temporary\u00a0restraining order in the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/energywire\/2012\/12\/12\/2\">facing Mike Bishop in court Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/12\/03\/landowner-fights-keystone-xl-pipeline-by-suing-the-state\/\">Landowner Fights Keystone XL Pipeline By Suing the State\u00a0<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grievances have been made regarding the use of eminent domain to pressure landowners to allow the Keystone XL pipeline on their land. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":22180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[214,73],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22219,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22175\/revisions\/22219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}