Pipelines: US Supreme Court sides with PennEast regarding eminent domain and pipelines. Link here.
Ruling leaves in place longstanding pipeline routing practices. Pipelines had feared state veto power on condemnation. Google the blog for occasional notes regarding PennEast. Also, link here. Note how close this vote was: one judge could have overturned this.
The court ruled 5 - 4 that a pipeline company can use federal eminent domain authority to build a line across state-owned land and private lands where easements have been granted by states. This suggests that states can't have it both ways: an easement for a state-approved pipeline but not a permit for a federally permitted pipeline using the same easement.
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No Deal
Saudi - Sempra - Port Arthur
See "Saudi Arabia in transition" from yesterday, June 28, 2021.
Today, over at SeekingAlpha, "Sempra, Saudi Aramco unable to seal deal tied to Port Arthur LNG." Also here.
That explains why this:
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The Yolk's On Goober
Very familiar with the PennEast pipeline route, less than a mile from where I grew up on a farm. The pipeline contractors are going to have a pile of problems building that, the local protesters are going to do every they can to slow or stop the construction even though there are already existing right of ways via power lines from the Gilbert power plant near Milford NJ
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree. Same with the DAPL protests. And it may happen that the pipeline won't be built.
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