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Dan Gilbert- Bristol Herald Journal

Posted on January 26, 2010
TriCities -Click Here to Read the Series Above is a link to a series of articles written by Dan Gilbert. He is a writer for the relatively small town Bristol Herald Journal in Bristol, Virginia. In his eight piece series he deals with the issue of whether mineral owners have a right to be treated in a fair fashion...

Valuing Leases

Posted on January 25, 2010
Dallas News Meanwhile, McClain's daughter, Carolyn McClain, appears to be sitting on the better end of what might be the city's most lopsided lease. Written by Little for a term of 99 years, the lease guarantees that Folsom or his estate will pay the McClain family tens of thousands of dollars a year for what is, by itself, an all but useless piece of land...

Oregon, others petition FERC to halt gas pipeline

Posted on January 21, 2010
Mail Tribune The state of Oregon and the National Marine Fisheries Service filed separate petitions Tuesday for a new hearing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in an attempt to stop construction of a liquefied natural gas import terminal in Coos Bay and a gas pipeline that would cross the upper Rogue River watershed...

Durham Neighborhood "blighted"

Posted on January 18, 2010
DURHAM -- The Durham Planning Commission declared the Rolling Hills/Southside area to be legally "blighted" Tuesday night, but its deliberation was dominated by "eminent domain." As a result, what was in essence a formality in the process for organizing rehabilitation in the run-down and crime-plagued area off the Durham Freeway gained approval by only a 6-5 vote...

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Payment Prior to Dispossession

Posted on January 14, 2010
SOMERS POINT--It's been a fixture on the Somers Point circle for nearly three decades, and now the Pearl restaurant and bar, is officially closed. It was an emotional day for the owners, who were not ready or willing to part with the business they've put their heart and soul into...

Magna Sale

Posted on January 12, 2010
The Baltimore Sun Magna Entertainment Corp. agreed in bankruptcy court Tuesday to postpone the sale of two Maryland horse tracks as it works with bidders to provide reassurance that the Preakness would remain in the state. A Delaware bankruptcy judge also allowed Magna to end a profit-sharing agreement with Joseph A...

Robert Spencer

Posted on January 11, 2010
Freep.com Regarded as a catalyst and visionary thinker in his efforts to bolster the economic progress of Detroit, the longtime civic leader was president of the nonprofit agency since its creation in 1978 until his retirement in 1994. "Bob was the right guy in the right place at the right time for Detroit," said Emmett Moten Jr...

Regional Airport Fight

Posted on January 07, 2010
Delco Times I think the idea of a regional airport authority will be another ploy by Philadelphia to do a land grab of properties surrounding the airport. It will be the same as the land grab in Southwest Philadelphia back in the late 1950s and early 1960s...

Great Plains Reservoir Construction

Posted on January 05, 2010
Joplin Globe Maps started circulating a month or so ago among those who live along Little North Fork Creek. They depict what will happen if a dam is constructed north of the Medoc community to create a reservoir that would extend from Jasper County into Barton County...

Opposition to Rural Wind Projects

Posted on January 03, 2010
Twin Cities Occhiato has been a vocal opponent of a proposal to build 11 turbines in Greenvale Township in Dakota County, near a state-designated wildlife area around Chub Lake. She lives in Greenvale with her husband, John, and their two small children, and describes herself as an environmentalist...

Demand for Gas Storage

Posted on December 30, 2009
Journal Advocate Paul Jornayvaz, managing partner of Blue Sky, said, 'Blue Sky is extremely pleased that FERC granted the certificate just a few days more than six months after we filed our application on June 5 of this year. The Blue Sky storage facility would be an important addition to the Central Rockies market and we believe additional storage in the area could help shippers in situations such as the shortage of supply recently announced on KMIGT and the lack of available capacity currently existing on REX...

Cadeville Gas Storage Project

Posted on December 30, 2009
The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission) will prepare an environmental assessment (EA) that will discuss the environmental impacts of the Cadeville Gas Storage Project (Cadeville Gas Storage) involving construction and operation of facilities by Cadeville Gas Storage LLC (Cadeville Gas) in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana...

Just in time for the holiday travel season, the City of SeaTac wants to use eminent domain to shut down a family's airport parking business.

Posted on December 28, 2009
Highline Times James and Doris Cassan have operated Park and Fly since the 1960s, slowly purchasing more and more of the property that they originally leased for the business and gradually expanding until they employed more than 40 people. Now, SeaTac intends to take Park and Fly by eminent domain...

Waste Transfer Station

Posted on December 23, 2009
Chapel Hill News The Orange County Board of Commissioners is scheduled to decide Monday night whether to pick one of two sites for a transfer station or send trash to Durham's transfer station for disposal in a landfill. "The choices are between three all fairly unpalatable choices," Commissioner Steve Yuhasz said...

Attempt to Block Intermodal Terminal

Posted on December 22, 2009
All Business A judge has turned down Montgomery County's attempt to block a proposed intermodal rail yard in Elliston. In a decision that reached county officials Monday, Richmond Circuit Court Judge Melvin Hughes ruled Nov. 18 for Norfolk Southern Corp...

New Jersey Farm Purchase

Posted on December 18, 2009
Central Jersey NORTH BRUNSWICK — The Township Council paved the way for preservation of the Pulda Farm on Monday, adopting two ordinances that will enable the township to take the property using eminent domain. Both ordinances passed unanimously...

Florida Beach Dispute

Posted on December 17, 2009
World Network DESTIN, Fla. - The latest property rights battle before the U.S. Supreme Court started where the Gulf of Mexico laps at the crystalline white beaches of this seaside resort. The justices will hear oral arguments Wednesday over whether a nearly seven-mile stretch of beach is public or private after the state of Florida poured more sand on the rapidly eroding shores...

Utilities want more gas storage

Posted on December 16, 2009
Denver Post CASPER — Rocky Mountain states continue to expand natural gas production, which has spawned several efforts to increase storage capacity to hedge against volatile pricing. Blue Sky Gas Storage LLC plans to convert an abandoned oil field in northeast Colorado to a natural gas storage facility...

Landowners ask judge to reopen condemnation case

Posted on December 16, 2009
Roanoke.com An attorney for a Roanoke couple forced to sell their land as part of a condemnation lawsuit filed a motion today to ask a judge to reconsider new developments in the case. Norfolk attorney Joe Waldo stated in a motion filed in Roanoke Circuit Court that the Roanoke's Redevelopment and Housing Authority's condemnation and expected sale to Carilion Clinic of a 3-acre tract of land on Reserve Avenue would produce a blighted area and result in a loss of tax revenue and jobs...

Turtle Creek Bayou

Posted on December 15, 2009
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. PF09–14–000] Turtle Bayou Gas Storage Company, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Planned Turtle Bayou Natural Gas Storage Project, and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues The Turtle Creek Bayou Natural Gas Storage Project, Liberty County, Texas, intends to store gas in two salt storage caverns...

FOIA Requests

Posted on December 11, 2009
Daily Astorian The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has dropped its appeal of a federal court decision and agreed to produce a list of private landowners who are affected by the Palomar gas pipeline. FERC appealed a decision by Oregon's U.S. District Court in a Freedom of Information Act dispute filed by Columbia and Willamette Riverkeeper...

Appraiser Lack of Ethics or Kicked in the Teeth by the Low Ball Offer

Posted on December 10, 2009
Courant.com Kenneth J. Jones was a property appraiser with a blemished record when state authorities welcomed him into the fold two years ago as they tried to push down the price of a parcel they took for a highway right of way. Push it down, he did...

Southwest VA Gas Wells

Posted on December 09, 2009
TriCities Every month, a bank in Roanoke receives checks for thousands of dollars belonging to people who might never cash them. The checks are royalty payments for people whose mineral rights the state of Virginia has leased – against their will or without their knowledge – to private energy corporations...

Thou Shalt Not Steal Gas

Posted on December 08, 2009
TriCities On today's front page, we launched an ambitious and complex eight-day series that involves millions of dollars and affects thousands of Southwest Virginia property owners. Between unmasking other forms of malfeasance, corruption and outrage, investigative reporter Daniel Gilbert has spent portions of 13 months – so far – delving into an issue that affects many thousands of residents and absentee landowners from across the country...

Reverter Clauses

Posted on December 02, 2009
Fosters.com PORTSMOUTH — Residents concerned with how the city plans to allocate the money needed to lift deed restrictions from Alumni Field provided an earful of input to the city legal department Tuesday night. The purpose of the public hearing was to obtain comment regarding the disposition of the $590,000 in damages arising from the eminent domain proceeding to remove deed restrictions from the Parrot Avenue property, also known as the Peirce Property...

Securing your rights in eminent domain cases

Posted on November 30, 2009
Cyber Homes You may think it can't happen to you, but so did dozens of residents of New London, Conn., when economic development officials took their homes by eminent domain in 2000 to allow Pfizer Corporation to build a research campus in their coastal Connecticut town...

Biting the Hand that Feeds you or Fairness?

Posted on November 25, 2009
Nashville Public Radio The largest land owner in the footprint of a planned downtown convention center has turned from friend to foe of the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency. Tower Investments has filed suit to see appraisals of its property after MDHA condemned the land last month...

When a gas pipeline easement must stay an easement

Posted on November 24, 2009
Star Telegram Several southeast Arlington residents say they fear for their safety — and their property values — after learning about a natural gas pipeline that will run behind their back yards beneath high-voltage power lines. The pipeline would be buried largely in utility easements, except for a section of the Coldwater Creek neighborhood where some residents own the land behind their fence lines where the pipeline would run...

Kinder Morgan Project

Posted on November 20, 2009
Summary of the Proposed Project Kinder Morgan proposes to construct and modify its existing Huntsman Storage Facility. Kinder Morgan says that the completion of the Huntsman Ridge Expansion Project would benefit the Rocky Mountain region by meeting the immediate and longterm needs of the region as well as providing flexibility in managing and storing gas supplies...

Florida Dept of Transportation Public Hearing

Posted on November 18, 2009
TBO ZEPHYRHILLS - The Florida Department of Transportation's plans for widening U.S. 301 between Zephyrhills and Dade City involves very little widening. The department studied two options for widening the 71/2-mile road to six lanes, but project costs would have ranged from $85 million to $215 million...

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