{"id":7021,"date":"2012-03-03T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=7021"},"modified":"2012-03-03T11:12:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T17:12:09","slug":"farmers-restraining-order-reinstated-against-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/03\/03\/farmers-restraining-order-reinstated-against-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer&#8217;s Restraining Order Against Keystone XL Pipeline Reinstated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7034\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"The reinstated restraining order prevents the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline from entering a Texas farmer's land.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/03\/108066842_df37ec974e_z.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7034\" title=\"108066842_df37ec974e_z\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/03\/108066842_df37ec974e_z-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/03\/108066842_df37ec974e_z-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/03\/108066842_df37ec974e_z-620x496.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/03\/108066842_df37ec974e_z-220x176.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/03\/108066842_df37ec974e_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Flickr user pedrosimoes7\/Creative Commons<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The reinstated restraining order prevents the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline from entering a Texas farmer&#39;s land.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just a week ago, a temporary restraining order taken out by a farmer in northeast Texas against the company building the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/keystone-xl-pipeline\/\">Keystone XL <\/a>pipeline <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/24\/farmer-loses-restraining-order-against-keystone-xl-pipeline\/\">was dissolved.<\/a>\u00a0But late on Friday this week, that restraining order was reinstated by an appellate court.<\/p>\n<p>The landowner fighting the pipeline is Julia Trigg Crawford, who owns a\u00a0farm in Lamar County, northeast of Dallas. <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/14\/this-land-was-your-land-now-its-our-land-keystone-xl-and-eminent-domain\/\">As we reported in an\u00a0earlier\u00a0story<\/a>, her family has been there since the forties, where they grow soybeans, corn and wheat. A few years back, TransCanada approached her family about running the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/keystone-xl-pipeline\/\">Keystone XL pipeline <\/a>through her farm. The controversial pipeline\u00a0would take unconventional oil deposits from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. \u201cWell, we didn\u2019t sign initially, and it\u2019s kinda drug on and on,\u201d she told StateImpact Texas. \u201cEach year they sent another letter saying there\u2019ll be more money to kinda sweeten the\u00a0pot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Crawford repeatedly refused to allow TransCanada onto her land, the company sought eminent domain last fall.\u00a0Crawford is <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/29\/how-keystone-xl-beat-a-farmers-restraining-order\/\">appealing that claim of eminent domain<\/a> in a court hearing scheduled for late April.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, she sought a <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/20\/the-pipeline-vs-the-farmer-what-happens-next-for-keystone-xl-in-texas\/\">temprorary restraining order against the company<\/a>.\u00a0Just days after the restraining order was removed last week, the company announced it intended to go ahead and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/27\/the-keystone-xl-pipeline-is-coming-to-texas\/\">start construction on a southern portion of the pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to Port Arthur, Texas.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The reinstated restraining order this week from the\u00a0Court of Appeals, Sixth Appellate District in Texarkana says that TransCanada &#8220;is restrained from\u00a0entering on the Crawford Family Farm\u00a0Partnership\u00a0land and from performing any and all on-site\u00a0activities that disturb the surface or subsurface of the land.&#8221; TransCanada has five days to respond to the restraining order.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Read the full restraining order against TransCanada:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:128.8888888888889%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/322340-court-of-appeals-order-1.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"Court of Appeals Order[1] (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll add comment from Crawford and TransCanada as it comes in.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/14\/this-land-was-your-land-now-its-our-land-keystone-xl-and-eminent-domain\/\">This Land Was Your Land, Now It\u2019s Our Land: Keystone XL and Eminent Domain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/16\/keystone-xl-company-goes-to-court-against-farmer\/\">Keystone XL Company Goes to Court Against Farmer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/20\/the-pipeline-vs-the-farmer-what-happens-next-for-keystone-xl-in-texas\/\">The Pipeline vs. the Farmer: What Happens Next for Keystone XL in\u00a0Texas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/24\/farmer-loses-restraining-order-against-keystone-xl-pipeline\/\">Farmer Loses Restraining Order Against Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/02\/27\/the-keystone-xl-pipeline-is-coming-to-texas\/\">The Keystone XL Pipeline is Coming to\u00a0Texas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/topic\/keystone-xl-pipeline\/\">Everything You Need to Know About the Keystone XL Pipeline\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a week ago, a temporary restraining order taken out by a farmer in northeast Texas against the company building the Keystone XL pipeline was dissolved.\u00a0But late on Friday this week, that restraining order was reinstated by an appellate court. The landowner fighting the pipeline is Julia Trigg Crawford, who owns a\u00a0farm in Lamar County, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":7034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[73,21],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021"}],"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=7021"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7031,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7021\/revisions\/7031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}