Central Texas Pipeline Reignites Fight Over Land Rights

Under Texas law, the pipeline builder, Kinder Morgan, can use eminent domain to take land for the project.

By Mose BucheleJanuary 29, 2019 9:30 am, , , , ,

From KUT:

A fight over a pipeline is never only about the pipeline. It’s about the environment, property rights, public safety and a community’s sense of itself. Just such a fight is now brewing in the Texas Hill Country, where company Kinder Morgan plans to lay a part of its 430-mile natural gas Permian Highway Pipeline.

The Houston-based company says the time is right for the project. An unprecedented drilling boom in West Texas means there’s more oil and gas coming out of the ground than companies can ship to market. The pipeline would carry natural gas to the Gulf Coast, were it can be sold domestically or exported.

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