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Texas messes with Texas, pits landowners against pipeline-builders
2014-08-14 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Texas has a complicated relationship with oil. On the one hand, it`s a state that`s really into private property. More than 95 percent of land in the Lone Star State is privately owned. On the other hand, Texas is really into oil - both digging it up and moving it around. Basic physics suggests that, eventually, someone would want to move their oil through a space that belonged to someone who didn`t want it there. Lo, when the Keystone pipeline came on the scene, that came to pass in Texas. And...
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