Eminent Domain Power Granted to Private Pipeline Companies Meets With Greater Resistance From Property Owners in Urban Rather Than Rural Areas

Authors

John Allen Chalk Sr.
Sadie Harrison-Fincher

Publication Date

10-1-2009

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Heightened drilling activity and pipeline construction in the more densely urbanized parts of the City of Fort Worth has exposed an increasing number of citizens to the condemnation process. Affected citizens have banded together to educate themselves on the eminent domain authority of private entities and have increasingly voiced their opposition to certain condemnation practices by pipeline companies. Pipeline companies have faced heightened resistance from urban citizens to acquiesce to their threats of condemnation. This paper outlines the major issues landowners face in condemnation and addresses legislation and other changes to the legal landscape of condemnation in Texas.

DOI

10.37419/TWLR.V16.I1.3

First Page

17

Last Page

27

Recommended Citation

John A. Chalk Sr. & Sadie Harrison-Fincher, Eminent Domain Power Granted to Private Pipeline Companies Meets With Greater Resistance From Property Owners in Urban Rather Than Rural Areas, 16 Tex. Wesleyan L. Rev. 17 (2009).
Available at: https://doi.org/10.37419/TWLR.V16.I1.3