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Landowner Experiences with Eminent Domain & Pipelines (May 1, 2022)

Mark Hefflinger, Bold Alliance (Photo: Bryon Houlgrave/Des Moines Register

By Mark Hefflinger

News, Videos May 5, 2022

The Nebraska Easement Action Team (NEAT) hosted a brunch and panel discussion in Norfolk on May 1st: “Landowner Experiences with Eminent Domain & Pipelines.

The discussion focused on landowners sharing their experiences with bullying land agents, surveying, and eminent domain threats — on both Keystone XL and new proposed carbon pipelines (and for some unfortunate folks, both) — along with an overview from attorney Brian Jorde with Domina Law Group on the growing landowners’ legal co-ops that are forming under the Easement Action Teams in NebraskaIowaSouth Dakota, and North Dakota.

SPEAKERS: 

  • Jane Kleeb, Bold Nebraska / Bold Alliance
  • Brian Jorde, Attorney, Domina Law Group & Nebraska Easement Action Team
  • Ed Fischbach, South Dakota landowner (CO2)
  • Eileen Kenyon, Iowa landowner (CO2)
  • Randy Thompson, Nebraska landowner (KXL)
  • Art Tanderup, Nebraska landowner (KXL)
  • Bev and Bob Krutz, Nebraska landowners (KXL & CO2)
  • Jeanne Crumly, Nebraska landowner (KXL & CO2)

 

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