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With the continued development in the oil and gas industry, construction of pipelines are becoming more prevalent and more invasive on private land. The companies are constructing pipelines to move their product cheaper and quicker to processing facilities, but they are doing this to the detriment of hard-working landowners. Pipeline companies use aggressive and unscrupulous tactics to get landowners to sign voluntary easements. One of these unscrupulous tactics is to place a check in front of a landowner, typically for a size-able sum in the six figures, then they apply pressure by stating “this check will only be good for the next 48 hours, take it or leave it.” They follow up with the
