TREND: No Eminent Domain for Pipelines that Cross Borders.

Where: Ohio

Who or what denied eminent domain authority? A county judge

What project was denied eminent domain authority? A pipeline that would move natural gas froma  shale region in Ohio to a facility in Canada

Why wasn’t public use of benefit met? Because the benefit from the poeject was found to be the end point of the pipeline in Canada. The jobs created in Ohio were not persuasive to the court.

The Toledo Blade | Wood County judge nixes pipeline builder’s eminent domain plans