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Just a regular American
The use of Eminent Domain has expanded in recent years to private companies. This story is an example of the use by a pipeline company and I am sure if there ever is a pipeline from Canada the companies involved there will have the same power. After all the needs of the many outweigh the rights of the few.
Its take or leave it but we are coming through whether you like it or not and if your house is in the way you will be evicted and your house will be destroyed.
My Way News - Landowners fight eminent domain in Pa. gas fieldWhen federal regulators approved a 39-mile natural gas pipeline through northern Pennsylvania's pristine Endless Mountains, they cited the operator's assurances that it would make sparing use of eminent domain as it negotiated with more than 150 property owners along the pipeline's route.
Yet a few days after winning approval for its $250 million MARC 1 pipeline in the heart of the giant Marcellus Shale gas field, the company began condemnation proceedings against nearly half of the landowners - undercutting part of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval rationale and angering landowners.
Some of the landowners are now fighting the company in court, complaining that Central New York Oil and Gas Company LLC steamrolled them by refusing to negotiate in good faith on monetary compensation and the pipeline's location. Their attorneys say CNYOG has skirted Pennsylvania's eminent domain rules.
Its take or leave it but we are coming through whether you like it or not and if your house is in the way you will be evicted and your house will be destroyed.