North Dakota holdout landowner refusing to sell rights for Sandpiper oil pipeline
So, aside from the fact that these people have an environmental agenda, which is ok in my view, I wonder how does the government of a state get the right to take private property just so they can give it to a private company? A couple other articles suggest this company is an LLC in Delaware that just happened to get permission to function in SD as an public entity, entitling it to use a law made for use on public projects (such as water, electricity etc). It seems that they should not have the right to take it from one to give to another for a purely business purpose. Am I wrong here?
"Before the construction of the park could start, the area had to be cleared of its inhabitants. Rossi states that part of the impetus to schemes such as Central Park and others was to remove shanty towns and their denizens, who consisted of free African Americans and English/Irish residents, most of whom were poor, but some of whom were middle-class. Most lived in small villages, such as Harsenville, the Piggery District, or Seneca Village; or in the school and convent at Mount St. Vincent's Academy. Approximately 1,600 residents were evicted under the rule of eminent domain during 1857. Seneca Village and parts of the other communities were razed to make room for the park."
Then later the corruption of Robert Moses: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York http://www.amazon.com/Power-Broker-Ro...
Regulatory takings are not an aspect of eminent domain. Eminent domain specifically requires paying for what they take; regulatory takings take control leaving you with the paper deed and the tax bill. Both are implementations of the anti-private property rights philosophies.
He will most likely loose his legal adventure, but he isn't toast. The pipeline would be buried invisibly under his land, not affecting anything he wants to do or not do on it, only gnawing at his religious obsession, which he caused himself. He doesn't care about private property rights or eminent domain as a matter of principle. But the rest of civilization is "toast" if this viro movement is allowed to continue politically with the attack on private property rights and human civilization itself becomes progressively worse.
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