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NW Central Ohio | Someone needs to talk to a lawyer. If the pipeline isn't being used, then they should abandon the easement. We had a line like that crossing our property. It had been installed to transport crude to a "synthetic natural gas generation" facility. That was back in about 1973....and when they found out they couldn't convert oil into natural gas economically, they shut their 45-50 million dollar plant down. The line was then abandoned, and after abandoning, we made them dig up a valve that they installed in the middle of a field. Then along comes another company a while later...asking if they could pick up the easement and use the line to supply natural gas to rural customers. We weren't thinking at all that afternoon, and agreed to allow it. We didn't remember that after the original company abandoned it...that essentially it became our property, we had it cut in half...and our signature would be required for them to be able to use the pipeline at all. What I'm trying to say...is we made a very expensive mistake signing an easement that afternoon. | |
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Pipe line easement
