{"id":6577,"date":"2012-02-24T18:53:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2012-02-27T07:39:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T13:39:29","slug":"farmer-loses-restraining-order-against-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/24\/farmer-loses-restraining-order-against-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Loses Restraining Order Against Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Flickr user Loozrboy\/Creative Commons<\/p>

The Keystone XL pipeline would take oil from sand pits in Canada to refineries in Texas.<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s round two in the ongoing battle between a northeast Texas farmer and the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today a district court judge dissolved a restraining order filed by farmer Julia Trigg Crawford against the TransCanada corporation, which wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline across her property. After Crawford declined to sign an agreement with the company, they used eminent domain to gain access to her land<\/a>. She\u00a0responded\u00a0by filing a\u00a0temporary\u00a0restraining order<\/a>, which up until today had kept the company from going onto her land. But the two will meet again at a trial over the eminent domain claim in the same court in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s obviously a disappointment,\u201d Crawford said in a statement, \u201cbut the bigger question is whether they took my land and land from other Texans legally. I don\u2019t think they did and I think they\u2019ll get a rude awakening when we show up in court in April.”<\/p>\n

“We are gratified with Judge Harris’s ruling to dissolve the\u00a0temporary\u00a0restraining order,” TransCanada said in a statement. “We believed from the outset — and apparently Judge Harris agreed — that the temporary restraining order was without merit and improperly granted.”<\/p>\n

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