Landowners ask high court to slow pace of eminent domain actions

摘要

Another group of landowners is trying to convince the US SupremeCourt to weigh in on use of eminent domain authority for interstatenatural gas pipeline projects.The case, involving the 303-mile, 2 Bcf/d Mountain Valley Pipeline,targets granting of preliminary injunctions to allow prompt access toproperties for construction, a practice seen by the pipeline sector asimportant for avoiding project delays or cost escalations.The Supreme Court in May declined to hear another case broughtby landowners whose properties were condemned to allow forconstruction of Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line’s 1.7 Bcf/d AtlanticSunrise project.