A Nebraska company is moving to condemn more than 9,100 acres of land in south-central Kansas as it scrambles to contain natural gas migrating from an underground storage facility.
Omaha-based Northern Natural Gas filed suit Monday in U.S. District Court in Wichita. The filing is the first step under the power of eminent domain to take property from unwilling sellers in Pratt, Kingman and Reno counties.
The land acquisition would expand the Cunningham Storage Field.
Company spokesman Mike Loeffler says the goal is to stop drilling by third-party natural gas producers. Loeffler says those companies were siphoning off their stored gas supplies by changing the geological pressure.
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