DENVER/HOUSTON - Kinder Morgan Inc can begin work on a $2 billion natural gas pipeline without having the Texas energy regulator approve its proposed route, a state judge ruled on Tuesday.
A Travis County District court ruled the Texas Railroad Commission, the state’s oil and gas regulator, is not required to set standards for routing the pipelines or private land-takings, Judge Lora Livingston wrote on Tuesday. The state allows gas pipeline operators that qualify as utilities to use eminent domain to take land for the public good.
Kinder Morgan had asked the court to throw out the landowners’ lawsuit, arguing it was up to the state legislature, not the court, change the pipeline permitting process.
How does an export product qualify as a utility?
Unbelievable.
How do you acquire land without the owners consent? Well, just plow right through. No compensation? The Court ruled the other day that the government could not do this. so corporations are on top .
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