How can American oil and gas companies access and transport the valuable resources beneath the ground while ensuring the protection of the landowner’s sacred rights to protect their own property? Jacki Deason, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, outlines this tension between pipeline construction and eminent domain and how some landowners have strengthened their rights.

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Differing views:

Environmental Law & Property Rights Practice Group
https://fedsoc.org/practice-groups/environmental-law-property-rights-practice-group

Pipeline Builders Abuse Eminent Domain
https://www.wsj.com/articles/pipeline-builders-abuse-eminent-domain-1532039318

The Role of Eminent Domain in the Dakota Access Pipeline Conflict
https://landownerattorneys.com/role-eminent-domain-dakota-access-pipeline-conflict/