3 results for author: James Botsford

WAUSAU FAMILY TO FACE OFF WITH ENBRIDGE IN ND SUPREME COURT

https://vimeo.com/180474860 Click on the GoFundMe badge below to donate to the Botsfords' legal defense fund. Many months ago Middle Wisconsin published the story of James and Krista Botsford (a Wausau family owning farmland in North Dakota) being sued by Enbridge Pipeline. There are new and important developments in their case. The case is now in the North Dakota Supreme Court. Oral Arguments are set for Sept. 21 in Bismarck. The basic legal issue is whether or not Enbridge, a Canadian corporation, should have the power to condemn the Botsfords land through EMINENT DOMAIN for a proposed pipeline. The lower court said yes. Botsfords are ...

Eminent Enbridge Domain

Eminent Enbridge Domain by James Botsford Enbridge Pipeline Corporation is a multi-national corporation based in Canada. In the early days of the feeding frenzy created by the discovery of frackable oil in the Bakken oil fields of Western North Dakota, Enbridge moved in. They put on nice suits and went to visit with the kind and apparently trusting state government officials. I suppose they said they were world-wide experts in such matters and knew how to help North Dakota plan for the most efficient and expeditious way of capitalizing on this oil boom. That plan included declaring Enbridge to be a “public utility” and giving Enbridge ...

So Enbridge Sued Us

SO ENBRIDGE SUED US By James Botsford (Editor’s Note: James and Krista Botsford of Wausau, Wisconsin are being sued by Enbridge, a multi-national oil pipeline corporation based in Canada, over land in North Dakota that the Botsfords own.) One day around dinner time the phone rang and it was someone from a multi-national oil pipeline corporation telling me they wanted to run a 24-inch pipeline across our farmland capable of transporting 300,000 barrels of oil a day in order to get it to a seaport so it could be sold on the world market. I told them my wife and I weren’t interested, that we didn’t want to participate in their private ...