TPPF Refresher: Transmission Lines Also Carry Eminent Domain Power

This week TPPF released a private property rights paper about a pipeline company facing a judgment in excess of $1.6M against it. The judgment is unpaid and no bond is posted for appeal. It has ruffled feathers.

In the paper, TPPF reminds us transmission lines are no different that pipelines in that they both are private companies that have the power of eminent domain. 

TPPF stresses 2 major points:

• When private companies have eminent domain authority the scrutiny is higher
• private property rights, and the compensation for a taking of property, are fundamental 

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