It would be one thing if the resources are kept within the US and Canada, but that isn't happening. So, joe and jane get their private property taken for a private purpose and the Chinese benefit because of such actions. That aint' cool.
If they want a pipeline, they can buy land and build on it. Just like every other business. Don't use .gov to steal joe's land.
Do you have a reference for that?
The entire point of the pipeline is to get it to refineries then export it into the world markets or higher markets in Asia.
It would be one thing if the resources are kept within the US and Canada, but that isn’t happening. So, joe and jane get their private property taken for a private purpose and the Chinese benefit because of such actions. That aint’ cool.
If they want a pipeline, they can buy land and build on it. Just like every other business. Don’t use .gov to steal joe’s land.
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Exactly what I think about this proposal. This is a pipeline that is either a private company...a private foreign company...or it’s a pipeline w/ Canadian backing...that is being used to go across US land...a lot of it owned privately...and we should take away private property rights for Canada? For China? For a few hundred temp jobs?
Hey, if it’s my land, I’m going to say hell no and or my price is going to cover the cost of never being able to use my property fully again...ever. And if there is a spill...and you know there will be...who’s on the hook to clean it up? And since it’s a private company and/or another nation...will they pay up for cleaning or declare bankruptcy and walk away? In which case,now we, US citizens either have unusable land so degraded not to be useable or US taxpayers have to fork over money to clean up someone else’s mess.
My family had a farm “taken” via eminent domain, actually it was deemed “condemned land”, to build a school. You are compensated, supposedly fair market value.
BUT, I agree with you, they should do straight up purchase instead of forced sell and bypass judges who think they are king. Or queen.