Actually, Superior and Douglas County are in Wisconsin.
Plus, the judge reversed an injunction he'd granted earlier to the landowner, right?
And, the easement holder had notified the landowner earlier, right?
The landowner wants more money for "changes" the easement holder proposes which will require an adjustment in the easement (documents and space needed, or just documents?).
This stuff happens all the time.
We have a gas line company with a 72" line running through this community according to the list of easements on the deed addenda. It was something like a piece of the original "Big Inch". The actual line, according to guys who've seen it, is a teeny-tiny 36" system ~ whatever that means ~ whatever, when this sucker blows out everybody will know it.
About 15 years ago they were planning to build a bridge over nearby I-95, underwhich this line runs. Lo and behold I noted to the engineers at a public hearing that the main bridge supports were coming down directly on top of the pipeline.
I was assured the line would be "relocated". In the end, the road and bridge were relocated. It was further discovered that I-95 was missing the masonry work necessary to pass over this line, so beaucoup millions of bucks were spent redoing the whole mess.
In general highway departments do not adjust their roads to avoid major gas lines. On the other hand, they adjust everything to avoid relocating any of the great transcontinental pipeline main links.
My few minutes at that hearing helped the highway folks avoid a disaster, and tapped the taxpayers wallets for maybe $75 million!
Actually, I know.
The Wisconsin border counties adjacent to Minnesota are usually included when I do a Minnesota PING.