Credit: SPECTRA ENERGY CORP.
Last month, it was Medina. This week, it’s Green and New Franklin and thereabouts. A Summit County judge yesterday denied a NEXUS Pipeline-related request for a temporary restraining order against some 91 private property owners — an attempt to force access onto their land to track and survey the pipeline’s planned route.

Judge Mary Margaret Rowlands denied that motion, and then set a trial date of Oct. 26 for the pipeline company’s request for declaratory judgment.

She concurred independently with the Medina judge, who insisted that NEXUS is not showing how “irreparable harm” — a judicial standard in this sort of case — would come to the company in the event it cannot secure the restraining order.

This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2015.

Eric Sandy is an award-winning Cleveland-based journalist. For a while, he was the managing editor of Scene. He now contributes jam band features every now and then.

One reply on “Another Judge Denies NEXUS Pipeline Request to Access Residential Properties”

  1. Screw NEXUS. Why don’t you take your pipeline, and reroute it so that it goes right up your…..

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