Showdown in Trans Pecos: Texas Ranchers Stand Up to Billionaires’ Export Pipeline
By Ben Jervey, DeSmog Blog
Mexico’s landmark energy reforms are already having impacts north of the border, and nowhere more acutely than Texas.
Tag: eminent domain
Facing The Looming Foreclosure Crisis
By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt
As the Fed runs out of bullets, local governments are stepping in.
The Stone that Brings Down Goliath? Richmond and Eminent Domain
By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt blog
In a nearly $13 billion settlement with the US Justice Department in November 2013, JPMorganChase admitted that it, along with every other large US bank, had engaged in mortgage fraud as a routine business practice, sowing the seeds of the mortgage meltdown.
Did These Nebraska Landowners Just Block the KXL Pipeline?
By Ted Genoways, Onearth
Nebraska landowners opposing the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline scored a major victory in court today—one that could significantly delay the $5 billion project by at least temporarily blocking its construction through the Cornhusker state.
Meet the Texas Farmer Challenging the Keystone Pipeline from the Courtroom to the Plains
By Anna Simonton, YES! magazine
The trouble for Crawford started in 2008, when TransCanada offered her $7,000 for a lifetime easement across her pasture. This would give the company complete control over the land without owning it outright. She consulted with her father and siblings, all of whom have a stake in the farm. They decided to refuse.
California City Threatens to Use Eminent Domain to Stop Bank Foreclosures
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
A town in California is making headlines on how it is tackling its foreclosure crisis.