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Twin Cities High Voltage Lines
Posted on April 20, 2009Twincities.com Minnesota regulators today approved plans to build three long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines, with the condition that one of the lines carry wind energy. The state Public Utilities Commission granted a certificate of need for the $1...
Court says no to church condemnation
Posted on April 17, 2009Star Tribune In a case that sparked intense turmoil and contributed to the ouster of a long-time mayor, the Minnesota Court of Appeals has ruled that the city of Jordan may not carve into the grounds of a historic Catholic church in order to widen roads for future growth...
Congratulations
Posted on April 10, 2009The second Suffolk native appointed to a Hampton Roads judgeship in February said his ambition since law school has been to sit on the bench. 'It's something I decided I wanted to do while I was in law school,' said Philip Infantino III, who attended Washington & Lee University School of Law, graduating in 1991...
Preakness facing Eminent Domain
Posted on April 09, 2009Southern Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley proposed legislation Wednesday aimed at increasing the state's power to keep the Preakness Stakes in Maryland, despite potential legal challenges stemming from the race owner's recent bankruptcy filing. The bill, which has the support of legislative leaders, gives Maryland the authority to acquire the Preakness and the two major horse racing tracks in the state through purchase or eminent domain as a last resort...
Difficulty of obtaining tenants
Posted on April 08, 2009Daily Herald The former owners of an Arlington Heights strip mall sued the village in federal court Friday, seeking more than $5 million for losses allegedly due to the village scaring tenants away. Ron Popp and Victor Valenti bought the Arlin-Golf mall, a short strip of stores off Arlington Heights Road just north of Golf Road in June 2001, said their attorney Joseph M...
The Costs of Eminent Domain
Posted on April 06, 2009Farmington Independent For months, area electric utility companies Great River Energy, Xcel Energy, along with nine others from the Dakotas to Wisconsin, have held public meetings to explain a proposed power line expansion project called CapX2020. But a group here in Dakota County is not buying into it...
Michigan to Get Wind Power
Posted on April 03, 2009Click on Detroit The skyline in Michigan's rural Thumb could look a bit like historic Holland a few years down the road under DTE Energy Co.'s announced plan to install 125 wind turbines in Huron County by 2015 -- and 280 within two decades. DTE Energy officials told Huron County commissioners the company must add 1,200 megawatts of green power to meet the state's new energy mandate...
Eminent Domain for Transmission Lines
Posted on April 01, 2009Las Vegas Sun Even snippets of comments by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can make big news. Entire stories are written from sentence fragments grunted in a hallway. But Friday morning, Reid had time to expand on his thoughts for nearly an hour at a breakfast with more than 30 journalists...
Blue Water Bridge
Posted on March 30, 2009The Times Herald The brother and sister inherited the Port Huron home when their father died several years ago. Now, they could be forced to move based on the newest plan for the Blue Water Bridge Plaza expansion. "We don't want to move," said Marvin Beadle, 42, looking at a map of the plan, part of the project's final environmental impact statement released Tuesday...
Maryland Breaks New Ground
Posted on March 27, 2009Hometown Annapolis A plan proposed this week by Mayor Ellen O. Moyer to use eminent domain to break the lease for the near-vacant Market House caught some by surprise. City officials took the first step in that process by sending a notice yesterday to Site Realty Group, the Silver Spring company that holds a 20-year lease on the historic City Dock building, that it defaulted on its lease by failing to pay rent and by failing to keep the facility filled with vendors...
City of Rogers Files Eminent Domain
Posted on March 23, 2009NWAnews.com With negotiations stalling, the city of Rogers is going through with its threat to use eminent domain at the Rogers Municipal Airport. The city was negotiating with four leaseholders who controlled three hangars at the airport. Dealings with two of the four have proven unsuccessful...
Problem Communities Face
Posted on March 17, 2009South Bergenite Cherokee Porete no longer plans to move Arlington Valley forward. The redevelopment project aimed to transform a string of light industrial businesses along Porete Avenue in North Arlington into 1,625 homes, retail space and parks. The developer officially abandoned its plans during a superior court hearing on March 3...
East Village
Posted on March 15, 2009State News East Village-area property owners upset about a recent Lansing State Journal letter to the editor by an East Lansing official had their say Tuesday at the East Lansing City Council meeting. In the letter, East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton responded to allegations that the city intends to use blight designations and eminent domain to seize land from property owners...
Deals and Promises
Posted on March 13, 2009MLive The Ottawa County Road Commission said it needs the property where a popular dry cleaner has been in business for nearly two decades for a project to widen a portion of River Avenue to seven lanes just north of the bridge separating the township from Holland...
Still a demand
Posted on March 11, 2009Cincinnati.com A jury has awarded the owners of 1.3 acres at the fast-growing Interstate 75-Ohio 63 intersection $900,000 for their property in an eminent domain case growing out of the Ohio 63 widening project. The Warren County Common Pleas Court jury award last week was about 50 percent more than the state's appraisers valued the vacant store site across Ohio 63 from the Waffle House restaurant...
New Power Lines
Posted on March 08, 2009CQ Politics Moving electricity generated by solar or wind power from sun-drenched deserts and windswept plains to energy-thirsty cities and towns will require thousands of miles of new power lines, many of which could cut across private property. That, advocates say, will require strong direction from the federal government — including seizing land through the government's 'eminent domain' power...
How do you value a corridor?
Posted on March 06, 2009Trading Markets While city officials work to raise $40 million to buy the old Norfolk Southern rail line, a city appraisal says the land is worth much less. The city won't release the appraisal, citing "ongoing negotiations," but officials familiar with it said it values the corridor, the likely route for a light-rail project, at about $6 million...
Limits Placed on Eminent Domain
Posted on February 26, 2009WLBT 3 If it's passed, a bill currently in the state senate could strengthen property rights for Mississippians. But could it also stunt economic growth for the state? During the 2008 legislative session, Jackson State University hoped a bill giving them "quick take" ability would pass so they could take advantage of tax credits for land development near campus...
Electric Grid
Posted on February 11, 2009The New York Times Environmentalists dream of a bigger and “smarter” electric grid that could move vast amounts of clean electricity from windswept plains and sunny deserts to distant cities.Skip to next paragraph Such a grid, they argue, could help utilities match demand with supply on the hottest afternoons, allow customers to decide when to run their appliances and decrease the risk of blackouts, like the one that paralyzed much of the East in 2003...
Eminent Domain and Agriculture
Posted on February 05, 2009Daily Gazette CAPITAL REGION — Figures released Wednesday show that six counties in the Capital Region shed more than 58,000 acres of farmland and lost 104 farms between 2002 and 2007. Results in the USDA’s 2007 Census of Agriculture show Schoharie County experienced the biggest loss in farms while Montgomery County lost the greatest amount of acreage in the five-year period...
Northeast Pennsylvania Transmission Line
Posted on February 02, 2009Scranton Times PPL Electric Utilities is seeking state regulator approval to use eminent domain to acquire more than a dozen sections of right of way still needed for a proposed $510 million transmission line through Northeast Pennsylvania. In eminent domain applications filed this week with the Public Utility Commission in Harrisburg, PPL said it has been unable to reach right-of-way and easement agreements with 14 property owners — seven in Lackawanna County, six in Wayne and one in Monroe — although negotiations continue...
National Electric Act
Posted on January 30, 2009CS Monitor To justify taking homes and farms to build the Interstate highway, President Eisenhower cited a security need: Military vehicles must move fast in case of war. Now President Obama, citing a need to curb global warming, wants new transmission lines across America to carry electricity from carbon-free energy sources...
Batavia Simpson Line
Posted on January 27, 2009Battle Creek Enquirer LEONIDAS TOWNSHIP — Progress must march on, but few want it to march through their backyard. That's the sentiment of residents living in the path of a planned 25- to 30-mile electric power transmission line. The line, to be built by the Novi-based ITC Holding Co...
Columbia University Challenge
Posted on January 27, 2009Observer The owner of a set of storage buildings in West Harlem, Nick Sprayregen, has filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s use of eminent domain, he said this afternoon. The state has commenced actions to acquire the properties in connection with Columbia University’s planned 17-acre expansion in the area...
Agencies Fight against Delaware
Posted on January 26, 2009WMDT 47 An eminent domain bill will head back to Delaware's Senate for a second time. Senator Rob Venables is sponsoring the bill. It would make it harder for the government to acquire residential and business properties and then turn them over to private developers...
A Risky Approach
Posted on January 19, 2009iStockAnalyst Getting rid of Unitil following the December power outages will be easier said than done, State Rep. Stephen DiNatale, D-Fitchburg, said this week. DiNatale said all of the options under consideration will cost cities and towns a lot of money...
"Free"port
Posted on January 14, 2009The Facts The Economic Development Corp. and City Council will have a joint meeting to discuss all the issues and delays that surround the Freeport marina project. At a meeting Thursday, corporation members approved a request by Mayor Larry McDonald to come together at 6 p...
Electric Takeover
Posted on January 13, 2009Naples News MARCO ISLAND — A visit by Florida Municipal Electric Association’s executive director, Barry Moline, has some members of the city’s electric municipalization committee going back to asking why the city should buy the utility, Lee County Electric Cooperative...
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