<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Groundbreaking Ruling in TEXAS! </span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/09/landowner-over-transcanada-keystone-xl-eminent-domain-case/">http://ecowatch.com/2014/01/09/landowner-over-transcanada-keystone-xl-eminent-domain-case/</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 25.1875px;">At the heart of Crawford’s case is the ability of TransCanada, a foreign corporation, to use eminent domain under the state’s “common carrier” clause since their pipeline transports 90 percent Canadian Tar Sands </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 25.1875px;">and 10 percent North Dakota oil. There is no on ramp for Texas oil therefore violating the definition of a common carrier under Texas law.</span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height:
18px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 18px;">If oil on Line 9 is mainly from North Dakota via the Enbridge Westover Terminal (A possibility mentioned at the NEB Line 9 hearings) it is not "common carrier" in Canada either! </span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Lulu :0)</div></div></body></html>