Eminent Domain Documentary. Landowners vs. Pipeline. Top 5 Arguments from all sides.

A new documentary details the plight of landowners that oppose the Bluegrass Pipeline. Top 5 complaints from landowners:

  1. companies misled landowners over the type of product in the pipeline by alleging the pipeline was for natural gas instead of natural-gas liquids. 
  2. natural gas liquids are highly flammable
  3. the pipeline serves no public use
  4. surveyors enter property without permission
  5. Oil companies deny trying to mislead or intimidate residents

What was the end result? 

  • Landowners won. The pipeline project was cancelled.
  • Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision that the pipeline partnership cannot use eminent domain because it neither serves a public use nor is it regulated by the Public Service Commission. 

Documentary Information: selluswilder.com

WEKU Documentary Chronicles Grassroots Struggle Against Bluegrass Pipeline