Bloomington Pipeline

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Alan Ackerman

Pantagraph, July 10, 2007

A Canadian company that wants to contruct a crude-oil pipeline through Central Illinois plans to file for eminet domain power near the end of the month.

Eminent domain remains a last option, however, Endbridge Inc. might begin negotiating with landowners around the same time it files for certificate of good standing...

The 170-mile pipeline would run east of Bloomington Normal from Pontiac to Patoka, affects about 95 landowners in Mclean county, 68 in Livingston County and 65 in DeWitt Count.

-A Canadian pipeline will work its way through Illinois despite the opposition of the local farmers. The issue then becomes one of how owners can be treated fairly. To simply “start negotiations” does not deal with the compensation or the valuation of pipeline takes.

At least there seems to be recognition that the tile fields will require repair.

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Power Line Opponents

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Alan Ackerman

Times Community.com, May 16, 2007

Opponents of Dominion Virginia Power's plan to string transmission lines across the Piedmont's placid and historic landscape circled their wagons around Washington, D.C. Tuesday.

They provided federal regulators with impassioned narratives about how their lives would be impacted by the 500-kv power lines and the huge towers that would hold them.

"I've been promised by the experts at Dominion Power that my land is a target for the 15-story power lines they propose to build," said Judy Almquist of Marshall, a retired widow who supports herself by renting out the six houses and apartments on her 50-acre farm in Fauquier County. "Two local realtors told me that my property is worthless right now because no one will buy it."  Read Full Article

- For the opponents that circle the wagons, in all likelihood their activities will be pre-empted by the federal legislation passed during the first Bush Administration.  

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