haha shut up <| sep |> This is a brilliant episode , probably my favourite . Ahhh Potions class ! <| sep |> I think you ' re misinformed this is an eminent domain struggle . Farmers and landowners all along the pipeline were threatened with eminent domain suits if they didn ' t sign easements . Which heavily restrict private property owners use of their own private property while offering little in the form of compensation . False , it is you who is misinformed . I do land and design work for Sunoco . eminent domain isn ' t just something that happens all the time . It is an extremely slow and expensive method and it ' s been used on less than a single handful of the tens of thousands of parcels on a single 350 mile PL . ED happens only with landowners who ignore the constant attempts at communication , or go back on their agreement later in the IFC phase . Secondly , the landowners have all the power at the negotiating table . Landowners change design of pipeline routes every single day , they can tell our engineers exactly where on their property they want it , and can easily decline the compensation . Thirdly , the company very much adequately pays landowners for their land . We ' ve paid farmers more than the value of their house over 750 k to put a 200 ft section of pipe in the corner of their field . what lease ? The land is owned by the army core of engineers . They issued this report . He ' s saying that A the other thousands of landowners are not being compensated until this is all settled I wouldn ' t want them to keep causing damage to their property and slaughtering of cattlebuffalo from these rioters and B the PL company has legally acquired all other tracts , and is now losing money because of rioters . accesspipelineshootingus 5813 b 711 e 4 b 064 e 1 b 4 b 28 f 41 not great opsec nor does it fit your narrative . There was also a woman who pulled a gun and shot at officers who was clearly not a p l a n t w o m a n c h a r g e d w i t h a t t e m p t e d m u r d e r a t d a kotaaccesspipelineprotest which doesn ' t fit your narrative as well . Not even mentioning the millions of dollars in damages via burned cars and slaughtered cattle , as well as other private property . While it disheartens me that environmental concern wasn ' t enough I ' m glad you can get behind this struggle now . Do not get into an environmental topic here . There are way more crude and oil lines closer to the surface that the Sioux have no problem with hmm , maybe because they were adequately paid for them ? . Pipelines are the safest method of transportation for crude and NG . And until people like you stop relying on them for your everyday life coupled with price renewables will take a back seat for at least 1520 more years .