A consortium of two companies owned by billionaire businessmen has won a $767 million contract to build a 143-mile pipeline through mostly private ranch land.

Rancher Mary Luedeke said talk about condemning something by eminent domain doesn't set well with West Texas landowners. She and about 150 others met for a community meeting on the proposed pipeline.

"I'm here to try and find out where it's going and what their intent is, and to not be painted into a corner by my ignorance," said Luedeke, who is also a justice of the peace. "When I come out fighting, I'll know the facts."

The pipeline would deliver up to 1.4 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas from the Permian Basin for Mexican Federal Electricity Commission's power generation and industrial use, according to a story in the San Antonio Express-News (http://bit.ly/1D9xak2 ).

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