Does Oil Trump Property Rights?

Farmer's Restraining Order Against Keystone XL Pipeline Reinstated | StateImpact Texas

Eminent Domain. A doctrine that enrages personal liberties people who believe that property rights are sacred. Problem is that those people for whom seizure of private property is an overreach by government are also those people who are in the "drill, baby, drill" crowd and who are enraged at President Obama's rejection of the current plan for the Keystone Pipeline.

So, what is the takeaway here? Is it OK to seize private property to benefit a private enterprise if that enterprise is something to do with oil? Or is is OK if the seizure is in the public interest?.

Here is a farmer in Texas who does not want the pipeline on her property. Does she have the right to refuse? What is the opinion of the oil first crowd? This is the same thing that is happening in Nebraska and the President is getting blamed for it with everyone saying it is those tree hugging environmentalists who are at fault.