Watch Canada ship it all to China.
What a doucherocket!!!
Warren Buffett is overjoyed!!!
Ignore the judge. Ignore the judge.
Wait, what is the largest city in Nebraska?
Mutual? Obamaha? Buffet? I can’t recall.
Well, good thing that Berkshire-Hathaway conglomerate doesn’t “own” any political types. That would just be !wrong!
The environmentalists are teaming up with land owners and property rights advocates to oppose the use of eminent domain to build the pipeline.
I am all for the pipeline, but the judge was right.
This decision will stand for about 3 days until it hit’s the appeals court and Judge Podunk gets a lesson in law.
Folks, the issue concerns the Nebraska STATE Constitution:
“Three landowners sued Governor Heineman and the State of Nebraska in 2012 arguing LB 1161 violated the Nebraska State Constitution that makes it clear common carriers are regulated by the Public Service Commission. LB 1161 took that authority away from the PSC and instead gave the Department of Environmental Quality, an arm of the Governor’s office, authority to review the route...”
http://www.boldnebraska.org/kxlroute
If the state constitution gives the PSC responsibility to regulate X, then a law passed by the legislature cannot overturn the Constitution.
The ruling can be found here:
http://www.dominalaw.com/documents/LB-1161-Court-Order-Feb-19-2014.pdf
“It is clear that “legislation which directs that the PSC cannot exercise its constitutionally granted power over a particular common carrier or a class of common carriers” violates NEB. CONST. art. IV, § 20.241 As such, “NEB. CONST. art. IV, §20, requires that the power to regulate common carriers exist either in the PSC or the Legislature.,,242 Because LB1161 has the effect of either temporarily or permanently divesting the PSC of control over the routing decisions of oil pipelines subject to the act, and because LB1161 vests such regulatory control over common carriers not in the Legislature but in NDEQ and the Governor, the evidence before this court clearly establishes LB1161 violates NEB. CONST. art. IV, § 20, and therefore is unconstitutional.
Furthermore, the court finds there is no set of circumstances under which such provisions could be constitutional.”
The court threw out most of the objections to LB1161, but found that the Nebraska Constitution does not allow the Gov to take over authority given to the PSC.
They had plenty of time to bring this up earlier. Hit Nebraska with a lawsuit for all expenses incurred as a result of their delays.
Key words here “three Nebraska Landowners”. Which one is Ted Turner or if not, how much is he paying them while ranchers everywhere see the lowest herd numbers in decades?
Here’s the only page about her that I could find. I’d guess that she’s a flaming liberal, but I don’t know:
http://supremecourt.ne.gov/3869/honorable-stephanie-f-stacy