{"id":21393,"date":"2016-07-05T19:28:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T00:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21393"},"modified":"2016-07-05T19:28:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T00:28:39","slug":"fate-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-could-be-decided-in-a-texas-courtroom-before-nafta-tribunal-considers-transcanadas-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21393","title":{"rendered":"Fate of Keystone XL Pipeline Could Be Decided in a Texas Courtroom Before NAFTA Tribunal Considers TransCanada\u2019s Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fate of Keystone XL Pipeline Could Be Decided in a Texas Courtroom Before NAFTA Tribunal Considers TransCanada\u2019s Suit\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Texas landowner Michael Bishop continues to challenge TransCanada\u2019s right to build the southern route of the Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>\u00a0pipeline, renamed the Gulf Coast pipeline when the\u00a0project was divided into segments. Meanwhile,\u00a0TransCanada\u00a0is suing<\/a>\u00a0the United States for not being granted the presidential permit needed in order to build the\u00a0Keystone\u00a0XL<\/span>‘s northern route. A\u00a0win for Bishop in his suit\u00a0against TransCanada Keystone Pipeline\u00a0L.P.<\/span>\u00a0in Nacogdoches County District Court could complicate TransCanada\u2019s North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA<\/span>)\u00a0challenge.<\/p>\n

Bishop is suing TransCanada for \u201cfraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, misrepresentation, perjury, theft, bribery, and violating plaintiff\u2019s rights as delineated under the Constitution of the\u00a0State of Texas.\u201d His case alleges TransCanada doesn\u2019t rightfully\u00a0possess common carrier status, which\u00a0enabled\u00a0the company to use eminent\u00a0domain.<\/p>\n

On June 4, a judge in Nacogdoches County District Court\u00a0heard\u00a0motions by Bishop and TransCanada<\/a>\u00a0and made rulings that left Bishop\u2019s case\u00a0in play. The judge granted Bishop a continuance, giving him more time for\u00a0discovery, and refused to\u00a0hear TransCanada\u2019s lawyers\u2019 motion for a \u201dno-evidence\u00a0summary judgment\u201d against Bishop that would\u00a0have stopped his\u00a0case.<\/p>\n

TransCanada\u2019s lawyers argued Bishop\u2019s claims against the company have been asked and answered in other legal challenges by Bishop and other landowners, including\u00a0Texas rancher Julia\u00a0Trigg Crawford<\/a>. Crawford, who challenged TransCanada\u2019s status\u00a0as\u00a0a common carrier, lost her case in an appellate court, and\u00a0then\u00a0was denied a chance to have her case heard by the\u00a0Texas Supreme\u00a0Court.<\/p>\n

But Bishop successfully argued that he never was given a chance to fully make his case against TransCanada\u2019s standing as a common carrier, and that the matter is still unsettled.<\/p>\n

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Fate of Keystone XL Pipeline Could Be Decided in a Texas Courtroom Before NAFTA Tribunal Considers TransCanada\u2019s Suit\u00a0 Texas landowner Michael Bishop continues to challenge TransCanada\u2019s right to build the southern route of the Keystone\u00a0XL\u00a0pipeline, renamed the Gulf Coast pipeline when the\u00a0project was divided into segments. Meanwhile,\u00a0TransCanada\u00a0is suing\u00a0the United States for not being granted the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5317,11518,1030,14174,3004,2063,1350],"class_list":["post-21393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-desmog-blog","tag-julie-dermansky","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-michael-bishop","tag-nafta","tag-texas","tag-transcanada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21394,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions\/21394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}