I don't write a lot about gas pipeline issues, but this article in Marcellus Drilling News deserves an exception.
The adjectives used are exquisite (and of course unnecessary). Someone's knickers are in a hard twist over this court case. As if the judges could be swayed by ad hominem arguments in an industry newsletter.
The adjectives used are exquisite (and of course unnecessary). Someone's knickers are in a hard twist over this court case. As if the judges could be swayed by ad hominem arguments in an industry newsletter.
Radicals Using MVP Case to Void Eminent Domain for All Pipelines
In 2019 a group of Virginia landowners filed a lawsuit against the Equitrans Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) project, because they didn’t like how the pipeline left a mark across their horse pastures. The landowners arrogantly argued Congress improperly delegated its legislative powers to FERC and that ALL pipeline approvals made by FERC that have led to property being “taken” against a landowner’s wishes, including MVP, should be invalidated. In May 2020 a federal court dismissed the case. Using money from Big Green groups (who are funded by foreign countries like Russia and China), the uppity landowners appealed once again and, unfortunately, the case remains active and live, now in a higher court.
Radical, arrogant and, my personal favorite, UPPITY are adjectives used to describe landowners in the opening paragraph. The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but I can guess that it probably contains more derogatory adjectives and arrogant observations about the gas industry's opponents on this matter.
Landowners "don't like how the pipeline left a mark across their horse pastures." So, all affected landowners have horses, and pastures? Or only the moneyed few who spent their own hard-earned cash on a legal battle? Not sure if gas rates are like electric rates in this way, but if this pipeline were a transmission line, the landowners would also be paying for the gas company's legal fees, propaganda, and lobbying, to get this project approved.
But there's always the courts, and the buck stops there.
In case you're curious about the eminent domain aspects of this case, here's another news article without the adjectives (or maybe creative adjectives for the gas company, instead).
And if you're really interested in stripping the biased media crap from this issue, you can listen to the Oral Argument at the Court here.
Do companies get genuinely angry at the citizens who rise up to challenge their arrogant presumptions? Yes, but they normally don't demonstrate it in such a public fashion. But I guarantee your company overlords are talking about you in derogatory fashion in internal emails, if you've managed to get under their skin far enough. Been there, done that.
The energy industry is frustrated, both the fossil fuel industry and the clean energy industry. One because they suddenly can't build anything at all, and the other because it can't build things fast enough to suit. Landowners are the target of both. How DARE landowners actually fight back to keep what they rightfully own? The adjectives are probably going to get a lot more creative in the future.
Landowners "don't like how the pipeline left a mark across their horse pastures." So, all affected landowners have horses, and pastures? Or only the moneyed few who spent their own hard-earned cash on a legal battle? Not sure if gas rates are like electric rates in this way, but if this pipeline were a transmission line, the landowners would also be paying for the gas company's legal fees, propaganda, and lobbying, to get this project approved.
But there's always the courts, and the buck stops there.
In case you're curious about the eminent domain aspects of this case, here's another news article without the adjectives (or maybe creative adjectives for the gas company, instead).
And if you're really interested in stripping the biased media crap from this issue, you can listen to the Oral Argument at the Court here.
Do companies get genuinely angry at the citizens who rise up to challenge their arrogant presumptions? Yes, but they normally don't demonstrate it in such a public fashion. But I guarantee your company overlords are talking about you in derogatory fashion in internal emails, if you've managed to get under their skin far enough. Been there, done that.
The energy industry is frustrated, both the fossil fuel industry and the clean energy industry. One because they suddenly can't build anything at all, and the other because it can't build things fast enough to suit. Landowners are the target of both. How DARE landowners actually fight back to keep what they rightfully own? The adjectives are probably going to get a lot more creative in the future.
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