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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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Massachusetts Landowners Block Pipeline Surveyors

2014-08-04 02:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: The proposed extension of a natural gas pipeline that would run the length of Massachusetts is meeting stiff resistance from a broad coalition of residents, local governments, conservation and environmental organizations, and legislators. The 13,900-mile Kinder Morgan Energy Partners` Tennessee Gas pipeline now runs from Louisiana, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico to the Northeast, New York and through much of Massachusetts, including Boston. The company wants to extend it 180 miles between Richmond...

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Landowners sue to stop powerlines in railroad easement

2014-05-08 23:59:19| Railroads - Topix.net

The 'L Route,' shown here, utilizes the old BNSF right-of-way that a new lawsuit alleges was illegally transferred to PSE.

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Conservation efforts target women landowners

2014-04-19 02:11:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

Such efforts could lead to more conservation stipulations in land lease agreements. Women own a great deal of U.S. farmland, and one national womens sustainable farming group aims to help these landowners learn more. Women, Food and Agriculture, a national community of women involved in sustainable agriculture, provides the information and confidence they need to take action and work with tenants to improve soil and water conservation on their farmland. read more

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