VA’s eminent domain bill could open Pandora’s box of claims

By   /  March 2, 2012  /  News  /  No Comments

By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News
ALEXANDRIA — Jim Close won’t soon forget the effects of Norfolk’s decision to install sewer lines, which were being placed to support a pair of revenue-generating hotels.

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Early Christmas for Farmers Threatened with Eminent Domain for Wind Power Farm

By   /  December 23, 2009  /  News  /  No Comments

By Tom Steward
ST. PAUL, MN—Christmas came early this week for several Minnesota farmers when state regulators unanimously rejected a permit for a controversial wind farm proposed by the City of New Ulm, which had threatened to use eminent domain authority for the first time on record to seize the wind rights over the opponents’ property [...]

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Threat of Eminent Domain Hangs in the Air Over Minnesota Wind Power Project

By   /  December 4, 2009  /  Featured, News  /  No Comments

Will prevailing political winds lead to takings of opponents’ air space?
ST.PAUL, MN–Does the government’s power of eminent domain include seizing the rights to the wind that wafts over your property? That’s the controversial question swirling around an 8 megawatt wind farm proposed by the southern Minnesota city of New Ulm and opposed by several farmers in rural [...]

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