"I, for one, am tired of out-of-state companies coming in and raping our state and not providing the citizens their fair share."
So said West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Robin Davis today during arguments over whether the Mountain Valley Pipeline ("MVP") can force landowners to allow their surveyors onto private property to survey for their proposed pipeline.
MVP lawyers argued the surveyors would cause no damage to landowner's property. Landowner lawyers argued that the MVP serves no public purpose as no West Virginian would have access to even the first drop of gas flowing through the proposed pipeline and therefore MVP has no right of eminent domain.
MVP's proposed pipeline crosses Webster County from north to south and could generate (if MVP claims are to be believed) as much as $1.6 million in personal property taxes in its first year of operation.
A decision by the high court is expected within 60 days.
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