So private agreements were negotiated. If the pipeline is built, the threat of eminent domain will face each landowner. So negotiating a better deal now makes sense. But if eminent domain did not exist, it is a lot more likely that there would be hold-outs. From the small part of it that I read, the article does not prove what it purports to.
That’s all well and good to say when its the other guy.
That’s because “the article” has an agenda. It’s to satisfy Tom Donahue and the Chamber of Cronies.
Hooray!
I found a reader who has reading comprehension!
Eminent domain is like wo many other things. It gives one a choice between two paths.
Negotiate or litigate.
So 96% negotiated rather than litigate.
And people who comprehend only that which they wish to see will always be with us and are best ignored.