{"id":1580,"date":"2015-10-01T21:40:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T02:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2015-10-01T21:40:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T02:40:44","slug":"transcanada-abondons-effort-to-use-eminent-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/01\/transcanada-abondons-effort-to-use-eminent-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"TransCanada abondons effort to use eminent domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From <a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BOLD Nebraska<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TransCanada announced Sept. 29 that the company will pull out of the lawsuit filed by over 100 Nebraska landowners challenging their right to use eminent domain to seize land for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Facing mounting legal expenses and a likely loss in court, the company will instead go through the Public Service Commission (PSC) review process it had originally hoped to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>The PSC process will take at least a year, and cannot move forward if and when President Obama rejects the federal permit for the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a major victory for Nebraska landowners who refused to back down in the face of bullying by a foreign oil company,\u201d said Jane Kleeb, director of Bold Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boldnebraska.org\/tc-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story from BOLD Nebraska<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/company-behind-keystone-xl-pipeline-to-revamp-strategy-in-nebraska-1443558276\" target=\"_blank\">Read related coverage in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BOLD Nebraska: TransCanada announced Sept. 29 that the company will pull out of the lawsuit filed by over 100 Nebraska landowners challenging their right to use eminent domain to seize land for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Facing mounting legal expenses and a likely loss in court, the company will instead go through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/01\/transcanada-abondons-effort-to-use-eminent-domain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TransCanada abondons effort to use eminent domain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[10,17,8,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}