Keystone XL and eminent domain

As you know, I've been a big supporter of the Keystone XL pipeline, calling the apparent opposition to it by Obama and others "inexcusable."  And it is.  But that does not mean the pipeline is without issues. At Planet Gore, Greg Pollowitz discuses the pipeline's interaction with an area dear to my heart, eminent domain:

Keystone is being built without taxpayer money, making the hypocrisy of Team Obama and the Left’s new concern for exact job-growth estimates even more galling.
But jobs really aren’t the important issue. There’s an issue brewing that could derail the pipeline, and it’s an issue conservatives really should be taking a hard look at: eminent domain.
From the New York Times in October:

Randy Thompson, a cattle buyer in Nebraska, was informed that if he did not grant pipeline access to 80 of the 400 acres left to him by his mother along the Platte River, “Keystone will use eminent domain to acquire the easement.” Sue Kelso and her large extended family in Oklahoma were sued in the local district court by TransCanada, the pipeline company, after she and her siblings refused to allow the pipeline to cross their pasture.

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