Under Texas law, private pipeline companies can only use eminent domain if they make their pipeline available to any company that wants to use it, and they must also charge all users the same rate, like a toll road for energy. Dozens of landowners have written me, though, complaining about how powerless they feel when fighting a pipeline company that uses eminent domain. Magellan's management has refused to allow Houston-based Fairway Energy Partners and Vopak Moda Houston to connect to Magellan's network at the Speed and Genoa Junctions so they can serve Houston-area customers. Fairway officials, though, allege that Magellan's director of crude oil transportation and storage, Scott Devers, told them that the connections were simply not in Magellen's financial interest. Magellan doesn't hesitate to drop the eminent domain hammer on a landowner who opposes a pipeline. [...] the Railroad Commission shouldn't hesitate to demand that Magellan live up to its common carrier obligation.
Eminent Domain Power Comes With Responsibilities
By Chris Tomlinson, Houston Chronicle: Business
Tue, 02/21/2017 - 9:30pm
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