The Easement Action Teams, a project of Bold Education Fund, work in each state to handle outreach and education efforts with landowners.
Scott Skokos with Dakota Resource Council works with landowners in North Dakota. You can email him to get more information: scott@drcinfo.com
The North Dakota Easement Team works to educate landowners and to support organizing those who are opposed to eminent domain for private gain, via in-person and virtual meetings, webinars, videos and other trainings, emailed updates, and printed materials. Landowners with the NDET have also sponsored a range of advertising, including digital and traditional billboards, newspaper and online advertising, and social media outreach. The NDET is also networking with other state-based Easement Teams and landowners opposing carbon pipelines across the Midwest.
Over the years, Easement Action Team landowners have also worked with Domina Law Group. Its lawyers have been representing landowners across the Midwest and around the County in eminent domain battles and pipeline fights. For the last 12 years, Brian Jorde, trial lawyer and managing partner of Domina Law Group, has worked with Easement Action Team landowners in property rights education, landowner legal challenges to proposed pipeline projects, and handled hundreds of lawsuits and appeals including constitutional challenges and condemnation litigation.
Most notably, Brian represented more than one hundred families in an over decade-long fight against TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Due to the efforts of Domina Law and its over 220 lawsuits and appeals handled, TransCanada, the second largest pipeline company in the world, finally gave up on the multi-billion-dollar project — and Brian negotiated a complete release of all easements and a return of his clients’ land to exactly how it was before TransCanada condemned their property.
Nebraska Easement Action Team (NEAT) landowners joined together and created a formidable landowner coalition that ultimately was effective in all of its goals. Brian also assisted Wisconsin landowners in their battle against Enbridge, the largest pipeline company in the world, and after Brian’s involvement resisting Enbridge’s Wisconsin Public Service Commission application, the pipeline company re-routed around all the WEAT landowners, and they declared victory.
