North Dakota holdout landowner refusing to sell rights for Sandpiper oil pipeline
So, aside from the fact that these people have an environmental agenda, which is ok in my view, I wonder how does the government of a state get the right to take private property just so they can give it to a private company? A couple other articles suggest this company is an LLC in Delaware that just happened to get permission to function in SD as an public entity, entitling it to use a law made for use on public projects (such as water, electricity etc). It seems that they should not have the right to take it from one to give to another for a purely business purpose. Am I wrong here?