Judge rules against Lamar County woman; Keystone XL may proceed with pipeline
A judge in Paris ruled Friday the Keystone XL Pipeline may proceed through the northernmost of 18 Texas counties on its route to the Texas Gulf Coast.
Lamar County Court at Law Judge Bill Harris granted pipeline maker TransCanada’s motion to dissolve a temporary restraining order that had been based on a landowner’s claim the project could harm Caddo Indian artifacts on her family farm.
A full trial that will include other objections by landowner Julia Trigg Crawford, including her concerns for water quality and public safety, is set for April 30.
Crawford had asked Friday for Harris to approve an injunction barring further pipeline activity until the trial concludes. The judge’s ruling gave TransCanada, whose lawyers argued was losing money every day the project stalled, a green light to proceed without waiting for the trial.
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That's damn sad. Bill Harris is no friend of landowners or the environment.
This ruling is blasphemous against individual property rights, the environment, anthropological history. How can this line be already being dug when it hasn't even gotten a permit to do so???????????
