SC Think Tank Opposes Eminent Domain Expansion
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You’ve obviously “evolved” considerably on this issue.
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The pipeline company should have to pay royalties for enjoying use of that land.
They can pay a annual fees for an easement or make a single one time payment for and easement or fee simple purchase. If the eminent domain process is used they have to return the land if they no longer use it for the purpose for which it was taken. I ‘ve seen this happen when a road was rerouted the old road reverted to the current owner of the original parcel.
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Private companies? What do you think SCE&G and Duke are? They sure as hell aren’t government entities. SCANA sold its pipeline company, Carolina Gas Transmission Corporation, (CGT) in December of 2014 to Dominion Resources, Inc., another private company. (CGT was SCANA’s FERC-regulated open access, transportation-only
interstate pipeline company whose system consists of approximately 1,500
miles of pipe measuring up to 24 inches in diameter operating in South Carolina and southeastern Georgia.) CGT’s, and now Dominion’s natural gas pipeline is in the same exact business as this oil company is, transporting fuel from one place to another. So if Dominion (and previously CGT) has condemnation powers, as private utility company, so should an oil transportation company. You’re picking winners and losers when you provide one type of energy transportation company over another energy transportation type company.
“The constitution should further clarify that eminent domain can only be exercised by the state and never by a private entity.”
Eminent Domain has always included private companies and even private land owners if granted by the state. I has been used to build lakes, roads and utilities. Landlocked properties have access to roads through adjoining property. As an example a logger bought a back parcel and has the right to access the property to remove his timber. A property cut off by an interstate has the right to access his property through adjoining properties with vehicles to a road with access.
What is left out is that they must receive just compensation and that is not determined by entity granted eminent domain, but by a court.
A pipeline company is considered a utility because it does not own the oil carried in the pipeline. Oil companies usually don’t own pipelines and pipelines must transport oil from any company.
Spartanburg is all in on eminent domain:
http://www.cityofspartanburg.org/news/city-council-votes-to-condemn-oakview-apartments