Texas Judge Rules That Oil Company Can Seize Land From A Family Farm

Julia Trigg Crawford manages a farm in northeast Texas that’s been in her family since 1948. The southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline, which recently got a final approval, will cut through the northeastern part of Texas — as planned, through Crawford’s property. Crawford preferred that it not and rejected the company’s buyout offer. So TransCanada instead seized the property through eminent domain.