Yup, they dealt with the whole thing as badly as could be imagined and basically got smacked around for it. I suspect another company could run essentially the same pipeline, be honest, offer to work with landowners, and get away with it. -Curt
From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: Mercedes List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] The sky is falling! I tool real offense at the idea that some used about how it was going to create jobs. Maybe temporary construction jobs, but once the pipeline was completed, the number of jobs tied to its operation would be relatively small. When the proponents were pressed about this, they finally agreed that in the long term it might create 100 jobs. Yeah. Dan > On Dec 18, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > The people of Nebraska REALLY didn't want it. The company building the > pipeline made a huge mistake threatening the people of Nebraska with eminent > domain. They basically got told they could take their domain and shove it. > Without Nebraska onboard Keystone XL was pretty much in trouble. Obama > followed the will of the people of Nebraska. > Whats funny is that most of those who really fought it in Nebraska said > they'd probably have worked with the pipeline folks if they hadn't been > threatened at the start... > -Curt > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com