State Legislation: No Eminent Domain for Carbon Pipelines

What is happening? North Dakota State Representatives Rick Becker and Jeff Magrum will introduce legislation in the 2023 legislative session that will “clarify that eminent domain may not be used to procure easements for carbon dioxide pipelines and prevents landowners from being financially ruined for trying to fight it in the court system,”

Why is this important? Landowners believe in their constitutional right to their land.

How will this be important? A North Dakota property owner: “Our private property rights that are granted by the Constitution are incredibly important to us. They give us the right to protect what is ours, and in this case, we have the right to exclude others from our private property,” said Swenson.

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