http://texasvox.org/2012/04/11/your-land-is-my-land-a-david-and-goliath-story-from-texas/ The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas Thu, 23 May 2013 22:46:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://texasvox.org/2012/04/11/your-land-is-my-land-a-david-and-goliath-story-from-texas/#comment-21080 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:01:32 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=15118#comment-21080 [...] Julia Trigg Crawford, a Texas landowner fighting a legal battle with TransCanada over the rights to her family’s farm, will be in Washington on Thursday to testify in front of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice during a hearing on the Private Property Rights Protection Act. Ms. Crawford will be discussing her personal experience with the use of eminent domain by a foreign company, as it is being used by the Keystone XL pipeline. [...]

]]> http://texasvox.org/2012/04/11/your-land-is-my-land-a-david-and-goliath-story-from-texas/#comment-17109 Mon, 07 May 2012 15:36:53 +0000 http://texasvox.org/?p=15118#comment-17109 [...] to proceed with little project-specific environmental review and almost no public input. In fact, landowners impacted by the project may not even know approval has been granted to dig up their land …. Under a second scenario, the project would have to be considered for “individual permits” [...]

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