Amid oil boom, Texas legal fight grows over right to take land for pipelines

Dallas Morning News: From the early days of the Texas oil industry, the power of oil companies to seize land for pipelines has been sacrosanct.

Oil runs society’s cars and heats its homes, and the argument has long been that the need to get it to the public outweighs the violation of property rights of a limited number of landowners.

But after nearly a century of giving the industry carte blanche, Texas is considering whether to rein in the granting of eminent domain rights for pipelines.

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