It’s wrong to force us to sell power easements
“Rock Island Clean Line is a proposed 3,500-megawatt direct current transmission line that would carry wind energy from yet-to-be-built wind turbines in northwest Iowa to near Chicago to provide electricity to yet-to-be-determined customers. The output…
Pike County residents worried about proposed power line project
“These concerned citizens are raising awareness about a proposed a power line project called the “Grain Belt Express”. Clean Line Energy Partners out of Houston Texas wants to build a 750 mile long transmission line…
Easements, eminent domain and landowner rights
“Easements are a recurring issue for landowners, and I regularly receive calls with a number of common questions, including recent calls for the Sandpiper Pipeline Project by Enbridge. As oil and gas gathering infrastructure catch…
There should be no eminent domain for private gain
“The main purpose for the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s approval process of the certificate of public convenience and necessity is to determine the need for American Transmission Company’s Badger Coulee Line. At the PSC’s hearing,…
Family rallies to save farmland from eminent domain
“The proposed expansion of power lines, which is part of the state Energy Highway, will run through their homes, gardens, and fields according to the proposal submitted to the Public Service Commission by New York…
Claverack Community Meeting On Eminent Domain
“There will be a community meeting concerning eminent domain as utility companies look to upgrade high voltage power lines running through Columbia and Dutchess Counties. Farmers and Families for Claverack is a group of citizens…
Public service commissioner: ‘Avoid’ land seizures for power lines
“Public Service Commission Chairwoman Audrey Zibelman says that in transmission line planning, they’ll do “everything we can to avoid” eminent domain seizures of land and that they prefer projects that stay within existing rights-of-way. Zibelman…
PUC approves 60-mile, high-voltage line
“The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission on Thursday gave the go-ahead to PPL Electric Utilities Corp. to construct a nearly 60-mile, high-voltage transmission line that starts in Luzerne County. The 5-0 decision on the proposed Northeast…
Appeals court sides with land owners in eminent domain case
“The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with a group of about 70 farmers and rural landowners in affirming that Idaho cities have no authority to use eminent domain to route power transmission…
Court rules against I.F. plan to use eminent domain outside city limits
“The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that the city of Idaho Falls cannot use eminent domain to condemn easements on property located outside city limits for the purpose of running electric transmission…