Keystone opponents vow civil disobedience, vigils starting Monday
It is their right to use civil disobedience. It is the right of the builders and property owners to keep trespassers out.
All sides should be very careful on what they do, when they do it and most especially where they do it.
All sides should be very careful on what they do, when they do it and most especially where they do it.
“Kleeb said 115 landowners in Nebraska still refuse to sign agreements with pipeline developer TransCanada and would engage in nonviolent civil disobedience if the company tries to lay pipe through their land.”
If I own land then I own it. If I refuse to sell and/or allow a pipeline to traverse it then that is the final word on the matter. Yes, it may be a stupid decision on my part because I could have charged an annual use fee instead of selling, but it is MY decision to make.
If you choose to protest and not accept the offer, thanks to the liberal side of SCOTUS the court can force your hand "for the public good". While I disagree with this on most levels, a easement is not the same thing as taking you property from you.
In full disclosure, I just went through some of this when a pipe line was installed across a part of my land. This ground is land I bought years ago so that I'd always have a place to shoot and hunt. The two 36" underground pipelines set twenty feet apart required the clearing of my land 100' wide down the full length of my property. Since the land is not used for agriculture, I wasn't paid that much, but what I did get was a 100 foot wide cleared area that they mounded a twenty foot backstop on the rear of my ground and a smooth, hard packed gravel road all the way down. I ended up with a 1500yd range. Not everybody would have wanted this, but for my needs, it is a perfect improvement to my ground. One of my neighbors asked for trees to be replanted and they did that for him. Immature trees, of course, but they were very accommodating. They also put in a new culvert and access road that would have cost me tens of thousands to do.
All in all, it was well done.
The talk here is if the XL pipeline doesn’t go through, a large amount of the oil will be shipped west to Japan/China. If it doesn’t ship south, it WILL ship elsewhere.
I’m also invested in a smaller private company which will produce 30,000 barrels per day with enough reserves to carry through 2038. Because of uncertainties with pipeline capacities and up-front infrastructure costs, their current business plan is to ship all of the oil by rail at an anticipated cost of $30 per barrel. Approval of XL would likely change that plan and provide cheaper oil to the market.
They'll drive REALLY slow if the oil and gas companies retaliate by refusing to sell any fuel to the gas stations of the area.
Nobody has the *right* to civil disobedience. They have the right to peaceably assemble, but they don't have the right to trespass or harm another's equipment or workplace.
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Do any of them have ANY idea how stupid that idea would be? So they protest it?
No, they DO have "the right" to protest with "civil disobedience"!
They also have "the right" to be arrested for breaking any and all laws they violate in the process, too!
She didn't spend too terribly much time thinking about Luddism.
Which is what we see here.
Climate change from burning stuff on a large scale will be very costly in the future, but it's not like if they don't build this pipeline, we won't burn fuel. That's a separate and important issue.
I'm glad both sides are pushing hard, sifting and winnowing as it were.
There is no logical reason not to build the pipeline.
Where is John Galt when you need him?