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In Texas, Property Rights on Collision Course With Oil Industry

In the final installment of a series on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, Mose Buchele of StateImpact Texas, in partnership with StateImpact Oklahoma, reports on what happens when laws favoring landowners come into conflict with pipeline companies granted the power to seize land.

by Mose Buchele, KUT News

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Credit: Dave Fehling / StateImpact Texas

In the final installment of a series on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, Mose Buchele of StateImpact Texas, in partnership with StateImpact Oklahoma, reports on what happens when laws favoring landowners come into conflict with pipeline companies granted the power to seize land. Read the full story at StateImpact Texas.

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Mose Buchele

KUT NEWS