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Domina Files Nebraska Landowners' Closing Argument on XL
Nebraska Ag Connection - 09/18/2017

Domina Law Group filed the written Closing Argument on behalf of Nebraska Landowners who oppose the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline with the Public Service Commission. TransCanada spent billions promoting KXL. But, when evidence and witnesses were tested by rules of law and cross examination, most observers believe the pipeline company was unmasked, the law firm said in a release.

The landwoners, through their attorneys, maintaint hat massive gaps in TransCanada's evidence confirm its failure to carry the burden of proof for route approval. The applicant must prove its case, or lose, before this Commission.

The law firm said that TransCanada's three justifications for its Application were disproven. 1) The KXL pipeline will not generate more tax revenues for Nebraska; it will reduce them -- O'Hara, unrebutted; 2) KXL will not create thousands of permanent jobs, or even hundreds in Nebraska. It will create eight or nine, but diminish farm income--O'Hara & KXL admissions; 3) KXL's "preferred" route is not necessary because of a "fixed entry point". KXL misrepresented the South Dakota situation, it alleged.

In its filing with the Public Service Commission, the landowners ask, on behalf of all well-informed persons, that it deny the application entirely. "But if you must approve something, make TransCanada closely parallel what it has now. Also impose the South Dakota conditions (LO-235), plus required approval for any sale, and a duty to take the pipeline out of the ground, clean up the mess, and terminate the easements so title to the land is whole again when TransCanada is gone," the law firm reports.


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