Rover Suing Landowners

Rover Suing Landowners

We knew it would come to this. MLive is reporting today that Rover is suing landowners in Washtenaw over their right to survey. This is a matter we discussed in some detail months ago.

Rover’s actions here are bad enough: they continue to fail to cultivate good relations with landowners in Michigan. Just as bad, however, is Michigan attorney John DeVries, who seems to want to pretend that there is something unusual here, that landowners who are refusing to grant permission are extremists and outliers:

DeVries said the cases are a rarity in his career of about 40 years working on about 20 pipeline projects.

“This is the first time, on one pipeline project of many that I’ve worked on, where surveyor permission had been denied,” DeVries said.

Frankly, we’re not buying it. Either that or none of those “20 pipeline projects” are projects from the 21st century.