TransCanada’s Keystone Wins Right to Take Pipeline Land

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TransCanada Corp. won court permission to build part of its Keystone XL pipeline across several contested tracts of southeast Texas farmland to carry Canadian tar-sands crude to Gulf Coast refineries.

State judge Tom Rugg Sr. granted the pipeline company’s requests to take possession of the tracts under state eminent-domain laws after a hearing today in Beaumont, Texas.