What are your thoughts on eminent domain and a property owner's rights? Concerning the Louisiana Constitution and eminent domain, Louisiana state Rep. Danny McCormick, R-Oil City, notes, “It has to be for a public purpose, such as you have to have pipelines to transfer natural gas, so people can heat their homes, and you have to have roads for people to travel on, and you have to have electrical lines." In this case a Texas firm wants to run pipelines through landowners' properties to send carbon dioxide up to Arkansas to frack old oilfields. McCormick and some of the landowners are arguing this request for force access does not meet the state's constitutional guidelines:
