YES, another Buy the Farm win, just released today! OPA131474-030415 Check it out, read the decision. On MPR: Supreme Court backs farmers in CapX 2020 powerline fight On KSTP: State Supreme Court Rules Against Utility Companies in Farmland Dispute For … Continue reading →
October 23, 2014 @ 9:30 a.m. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission 121 – 7th Place East, 3rd Floor Meeting Room St. Paul, Minnesota Thursday, the ITC Midwest, LLC application for its MN/IA Transmission Project is before the Public Utilities Commission. WATCH … Continue reading →
I’ve just spent the last week dealing with transmission need and routing, both primary issues in eminent domain and condemnation for transmission lines (well, two days, but prep before, and the aftermath likgers…). Here’s what the Wall Street Journal has … Continue reading →
Thanks to Block RICL for sending this around, this is such good news I can hardly stand it! The issues the court looked at: (1) At what point in a Wis. Stat. § 32.06 condemnation proceeding must a property owner … Continue reading →
Xcel Energy has been spreading more than their share in their “acquisition” of land for their CapX 2020 transmission project. They’ve been lowballing landowners, and worse, when landowners elect “Buy the Farm” under Minn. Stat. 216B.12, Subd. 4, Xcel Energy … Continue reading →
The Minnesota Court of Appeals has just released a devasting decision — that Buy the Farm landowners are not “forced” to leave their property and are not entitled to other benefits under Minn. Stat. ch. 117 including relocation compensation. Buy … Continue reading →
Last week, Thursday to be precise, the “Buy the Farm” provision under the Power Plant Siting Act and Northern States Power’s challenge to compensation avenues available to landowners electing the “Buy the Farm“ option under Minn. Stat. 216E.12, Subd. 4 … Continue reading →
Remember not too long ago that landowners challenged the utilities’ attempt to limit their compensation if they chose the Buy the Farm option? Buy the Farm is Minn. Stat. 216E.12, Subd. 4: Subd. 4. Contiguous land. When private real property … Continue reading →
It’s about time… a judge in Montana has declared that a private entity that is building the MATL transmission line does NOT have the power of eminent domain! Well DUH a lot of us will say, this is a PRIVATE … Continue reading →
Maybe Pawlenty knew the revolution waiting if he did not sign. BE SURE TO LET THOSE LEGISLATORS WHO SUPPORTED IT KNOW HOW MUCH YOU APPRECIATE THIS BILL.  Here’s the scoop plagiarized direct from David Bly: Governor signs eminent domain law … Continue reading →