Louisiana Court Rules ETP Can Build on Land without Owners’ Consent
The Atchafalaya basin, apart from being home to thousands of native species of plants, animals, fungi and other living beings, is also an ancestral home to some of the native peoples of Louisiana, as well as one of the last places where crawfish are fished in the wild. Even to those who do not accept the swamp as intrinsically valuable, must recognize that it provides a home, as well as economic and environmental services to the people of Louisiana in the form of stormwater absorption, air and water purification, and crawfish harvests.
Although the Judge’s verdict acknowledged that ETP did indeed trespass on the privately-held land, the ruling states that ETP has the right to continue construction, and now has the right to construct on the disputed land.
Though couched in the lofty, Latinate language of the law, the ruling shows a clear bias towards the so-called “necessity” of fossil fuel and its supporting infrastructure. The ruling went so far as to equate the oil with a “public utility common carrier”. ETP is not a public utility, and the oil in the pipelines is not a publicly held good. In fact, it is neither publicly held nor objectively good for the community...........https://govtslaves.info/2018/12/09/louisiana-court-rules-etp-can-build-on-land-without-owners-consent/
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