Posted on 01/01/2013 9:47:16 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
David Daniel, an east Texas landowner, was so determined to block the Keystone XL pipeline from coming through his forest that he built an elaborate network of treehouses eight stories above the ground.
It popped into my head a long time ago, actually," says 45-year-old David Daniel. "If I had to climb my butt on top of a tree and sit there, I would. It started with that."
...Staging A Tree-sit
For 80 days, a couple dozen protesters took turns living up in Daniel's treehouses. Some wore masks to hide their identities. TransCanada, in a lawsuit it filed against the protesters, calls them eco-terrorists and put 24-hour security guards around its pipeline route to protect its equipment.
Grace Cagle, a protester with the Tar Sands Blockade, has spent a total of 17 days up in the trees.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
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TransCanada, the pipeline's builder, acquired an easement in October to build the pipeline slightly west of the tree blockade and the original route. Construction is now nearly finished on the property, and the protesters will soon call it quits.......
"As we speak, the pipeline is being trenched around the western end of the blockaded area," he added with disappointment. The "blockade will essentially become symbolic and come to an end."
Dodson of TransCanada confirmed that construction is "substantially complete" on the property, which is owned by David Daniel, a longtime opponent of the Keystone XL. Daniel reached an easement agreement with TransCanada in 2010, but later told the company it could no longer come on his property. TransCanada responded with a lawsuit; the two parties have since settled litigation.
In October, TransCanada obtained a supplemental easement from Daniel to dig up a 75-foot-wide corridor adjacent to the tree village.
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From the way this reads, this is still his property, he just now has no rights.
If you would have read the entire article, you would have come across this little factoid:
He and TransCanada struck an agreement, which neither Daniel nor the company will discuss.
Where in the article does it state that??
This pipelin is going in right next to another easement in Northwest Nocogdoches County. I talked with one of the workers a couple of months ago. Easements turn into long grasslands and make for very easy access to land choked with underbrush. Also a great area to set up a deer stand...
'He learned a pipeline was headed his way four years ago, when a neighbor called him at work to alert him that surveyors had been on his land.'
He rushed home and hurried down the shady path from his house to where spring-fed streams meander through what looks like a fairy-tale forest. He found surveyors' stakes, with some cryptic writing on them, right in the middle of his 20-acre property.'
That was all prior to him agreeing to the easement.
That's why you put up "POSTED No Trespassing" signs. Wouldn't be surprised to find out he'd been notified by snail mail and tossed it in the trash. I get constant junk mail for our timber. And we lease the property out for drilling rights.
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And subsequent to that survey work Daniel signed an easement agreement in 2010 for the pipeline. Which subsequently has been redone to move move the easement to another location on his property adjacent to the original easement he signed in 2010.
{puke}
I sis read the article. And, if you’d read the article, he and TransCanada struck the agreement AFTER he sabotaged his own land with tree houses.
What I was asking was this: Did the US gov’t pay this man for his own land BEFORE they took it for the ‘public good’.
From the article, it sure looks like he finally got compensated AFTER he struck a fit.
Yeah. We have 2 spring fed creeks across our place. Just looks like East Texas piney woods to me. Not some stupid "fairy-tale forest". It's a bug infested hell in the middle of summer. Ticks, chiggers, hornets, scorpions, you name it. Not to mention snakes, feral hogs, coyotes and bobcats.
I'd like to see the numbers, pro and con, of pipe line cost versus a new refinery in Canada.
Gran would have made us a graphic cartoon about this feat of hers.
LOL, except *ahem* I still insist it was the Shark with pink boxers....
Gran still posts.
It’d be a hoot if she’d photoshop up an image of snake holding a paintball gun in her treestand fortress.
I would die, fotflol!!
Sadly, don’t count on it.
awwwwwww
Gran had cartoons of both of us in the pink boxers....
Darks was Caspar, SL was a squirrel, Derly was a beav um...er....Oregon mascot.....
Ohhhhh! Senile snake... I do remember the other three — the Casper was so cute.
LOL, just had a mental image of ghosty me, snake, and shark sitting in a treestand waiting for who knows what.
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