Hey, I never got on the Bundy bandwagon.
And, sadly, yes the Government (Fed or State) CAN take land via eminent domain. It’s been like that since we’ve had governments. There is required compensation but it is usually ridiculously low. Happens all the time.
I don’t like any of this. For this reason I’ve never been a real fan of Keystone.
And Ms. Crawford negotiated the price of a lease of the easement area with Transcanada for six years, waiting until every other right of way was secured but hers.
She was willing to lease for a price, but now - because the company asked the county government to grant the easement - she is claiming that the company came out of nowhere. She is also implying that they are asserting title to her land, which they aren't.
There is big risk or big money when you play the holdout game. Now she's pretending that she never played it.
I’d like to know if this was an easement for subsurface ROW or was it an outright
purchase/taking of the land.
Don’t take this as support for TransCanada (I don’t know the particulars) but eminent domain and the FedGov holding land are apples and oranges issues.