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[quote=Anonymous]"This week, TransCanada, the company proposing the pipeline, began eminent domain proceedings in Nebraska county courts, seeking to gain access to almost 90 properties where the owners have not agreed to terms. Many of those landowners have said they have no intention of allowing construction."

Why do conservatives usually extol private property rights but are sitting by idly as a [b]Canadian[/b] corporation is seizing nearly 100 landowners' properties for a pipeline that will only export the oil to other countries? I am so confused about this.

"“Imagining all those big earthmovers coming in and digging this big scar down our heritage just feels wrong,” said Terri Harrington, the sister who owns a plot where the pipeline would run. She worries that a leak — [b]like one that sent 50,000 gallons of oil into the Yellowstone River in Montana last week[/b], contaminating drinking water — could endanger the land she loves." http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/us/defending-family-farm-traditions-in-battle-against-keystone-pipeline.html?emc=edit_th_20150123&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=66410721

Pipelines spill. It's not a matter of if, it's when. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States_in_the_21st_century

It saddens me that the very people who theoretically should be on the landowners' side in preventing a non-US corporation from exercising eminent domain over a pipeline that will not really benefit the US (will not keep oil here) and will only create 35 permanent jobs (cite: US State Department study) are championing this pipeline as some holy grail.[/quote]

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