Because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the pipeline project, the developer can use private land without the consent of the owner.
Mississippi property owners may not be able to stop Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. from digging up their land for a 208-mile natural gas pipeline. Partners of the "Mississippi Crossing” project insist the pipeline is necessary to keep up with data center energy demand, and have initiated 141 condemnation cases against Mississippians who have refused to give up their land for the project.
The pipeline would stretch nearly the entire length of Mississippi, and enter Alabama as well. Because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. is able to use private land for the pipeline project without the owner's consent. However, groups and individuals have brought forth legal challenges.
Alex Rozier writes for Mississippi Today:
“FERC is choosing to ignore its statutory obligation to protect the public interest by rubber stamping a reckless plan that will pollute Southern communities and risk raising families’ power bills,” Megan Gibson, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, which is representing the project’s opposition, said in a lawsuit filed on Oct. 1.
Read the full story: Groups challenge ‘unnecessary’ data-center-fueled gas pipeline
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