{"id":227062,"date":"2012-11-30T02:41:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T08:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=227062"},"modified":"2012-12-01T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T14:12:22","slug":"court-rejects-texas-landowners-pipeline-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=227062","title":{"rendered":"Court Rejects Texas Landowners&#8217; Pipeline Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=227063\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-227063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/11\/Keystone-XL-Pipeline2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Keystone XL Pipeline2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-227063\" \/><\/a>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 A Texas court has rejected an appeal filed by landowners who argued a Canadian company did not have the right to condemn their land to build a pipeline designed to eventually transport tar sands oil from Canada to Texas refineries.<\/p>\n<p>The 9th Court of Appeals in Beaumont handed down its decision Thursday, rejecting arguments presented by Rhinoceros Ventures Group, Inc. and Batson Corridor, LP. The landowners&#8217; attorney Robert Wade says they plan to appeal to the Texas Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The court battle is one of many in Texas as landowners fight TransCanada&#8217;s construction of the oil pipeline across the state. The larger, cross-border project still doesn&#8217;t have the necessary approval to proceed from the U.S. State Department. The portion of the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas is under construction. A portion of the pipeline is scheduled to go through eastern Smith County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 A Texas court has rejected an appeal filed by landowners who argued a Canadian company did not have the right to condemn their land to build a pipeline designed to eventually transport tar sands oil from Canada to Texas refineries. The 9th Court of Appeals in Beaumont handed down its decision Thursday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=227062\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court Rejects Texas Landowners&#8217; Pipeline Argument<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-04 12:25:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227062"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227277,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227062\/revisions\/227277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}