Suing Not an Option for North Dakota as South Dakota Blocks Carbon Pipeline, AG Says

Suing not an option for North Dakota as South Dakota blocks carbon pipeline, AG says

North Dakota's attorney general considered legal action over South Dakota blocking Summit carbon pipeline but decided it's not an option.

North Dakota Attorney General Agrees with Blog: No Grounds for Challenging South Dakota Eminent Domain Law in Court

Several days ago, North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley warned he might sue South Dakota for banning the use of eminent domain to build carbon oxide pipelines. I advised A.G. Wrigley that he didn’t have a legal leg to stand on. A.G. Wrigley has come to the same conclusion: “Our conclusion has been that there is not, at this time, a legal avenue available to us,” Wrigley told the North Dakota Monitor on Monday [Jeff Beach, “North Dakota Atto…

North Dakota attorney general says legal action against South Dakota pipeline law not an option

BISMARCK — North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley said Monday he does not see a legal option for suing the state of South Dakota over that state’s eminent domain law regarding carbon dioxide pipeline projects. Wrigley had made comments on a Fargo-based radio station earlier this month that he felt a South Dakota law enacted earlier this year may infringe on interstate commerce and was researching possible legal action. “Our conclusion has be…

South Dakota landowners safe as North Dakota drops pipeline lawsuit threat

North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley. (Kyle Martin / For the North Dakota Monitor)North Dakota’s decision not to sue South Dakota over its ban on eminent domain for carbon pipelines has landowners and their allies breathing a sigh of relief.Last week, North Dakota Attorney General Drew Wrigley suggested South Dakota’s House Bill 1052 — dubbed a “kill shot” to the long-planned, 2,000-mile carbon dioxide transmission line from Iowa to North …