Nebraska judge rules in favor of landowners on Keystone XL eminent domain

[RationalMan]

7. Whether this is a U.S. Corporation or a foreign one.....

it used to be that eminent domain was only used to give property interests to PUBLIC interests (e.g. establishing a wetlands) or for PUBLIC interests that were served by a private company (e.g. giving a right of way to a power company to stretch power cables across someone's land). But in all cases there was a direct public interest. Since the case in New England the SCOTUS has held that you can appropriate private property for private gain if there is some kind of nexus between the private company and the public. I believe in that case it was appropriating private land to build condos and a business park in a run-down part of a city.

What a scam. While I don't disagree the appropriation might have benefitted the public in a general sense of raising property values, etc. the benefit was primarily for personal gain.

That is the issue here. We all know XL will do nothing to reduce gas prices in the U.S. or make us more energy independent. This is all about making the Koch Bros and their buddies even more wealthy.

This is the time to go to the prairies with our pitchforks and whatever else we have to protect ourselves and stand up for us.