{"id":5996,"date":"2012-02-16T09:54:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T15:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2012-02-17T09:12:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:12:34","slug":"keystone-xl-company-goes-to-court-against-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/16\/keystone-xl-company-goes-to-court-against-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Keystone XL Company Goes to Court Against Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Map by the Department of State<\/p>

Where the Keystone XL pipeline would go through Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tomorrow morning in Paris, Texas, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a> is facing a farmer in court.<\/p>\n

At issue? As we reported earlier this week<\/a>, the company, TransCanada, wants to route the pipeline through the farmer’s land. The farmer, Julia Trigg Crawford, refused.<\/p>\n

Crawford’s farm is in Lamar County northeast of Dallas. She says she looked into some environmental issues with the pipeline and how it would go through her farm and decided she wasn\u2019t on board. \u201cOne of my first concerns was, to go the path they had planned, they had to horizontally drill under the creek that I have water rights to,\u201d Crawford told StateImpact Texas. \u201cSo, I didn\u2019t exactly want this sludge being pumped underneath the creek.\u201d Crawford also said that if the pipeline was buried underneath her property it could create a \u201cvegetative dead zone\u201d for her crops, because the temperature of the line can get up to 140 degrees, she\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

After repeatedly refusing to sign an agreement with TransCanada, the company filed for eminent domain<\/a> last fall, and won the right to route the pipeline through Crawford’s farm. While eminent domain is typically used for public projects, in this case the private company\u00a0argued that since the oil passing through the pipeline would ultimately be used by the public, then the pipeline itself was a public \u201ccommon carrier\u201d and not a private pipeline, even though it’s privately owned and operated.<\/p>\n

As a last-ditch effort, Crawford filed and won a temporary restraining order in Lamar County preventing the company from going on her land earlier this week. TransCanada wasted no time in asking for that restraining order to be dissolved, and tomorrow morning both the company and Crawford will be in court to argue their case. We’ll be reporting more on this story tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Read more:<\/p>\n

This Land Was Your Land, Now It’s Our Land: Keystone XL and Eminent Domain<\/a><\/p>\n

Pipeline Companies Fight for Right to Take Property<\/a><\/p>\n

Where the Keystone XL Pipeline Would Go Through Texas<\/a><\/p>\n

What is the Keystone XL Pipeline?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The farmer won a temporary restraining order preventing the company from going on her land earlier this week. But TransCanada has wasted no time in fighting back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":4612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[73,21,50],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}