Douglass resident settles on TransCanada pipeline, vows to fight on

DOUGLASS, TX (KTRE) -

Land clearing for the TransCanada pipeline is now underway in the Douglass area of Nacogdoches County. It's not a welcome sight for one landowner who fought to the very end.

East Texas News reports the longtime opponent is compromising, but not giving in.

The roar of bulldozers and the smell of smoke off FM 225 are now Mike Bishop's daily wake up call.

"The pipeline permanent easement is about 150-160 feet from my home, and they're in the process right now of clearing the land," Mike Bishop, the property owner, said.

The path goes roughly through the middle of Bishop's 14 acres. He said there are four natural springs on his property.

"There are four natural springs on the property," Bishop said. "They're disrupting two of them at this point right now. How do you compensate for that? You can't."

Yet, on Friday, Bishop reached a monetary settlement with TransCanada. The corporation's trump card is the right of eminent domain.

"I'm going to lose any way, so I might as well go ahead and get the best deal that I could for my family, and I'm going to take the money, and I'm going to try to move where there is an area where there is no pipeline," Bishop said.

The 64-year-old now intends to take his pipeline opposition somewhere else.

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Douglass resident settles on TransCanada pipeline, vows to fight on