Tag Archives: Domain

UPC Windfarm Prattsburgh Eminent Domain #3


When a Board member asked, what quantity of electricity can be expected to be generated and go into the grid; no total amount was provided. UPC has had six years to secure easement for transmission lines. If they are unable to buy these rights from property owners, they seem determined to rely upon state force to compel objecting land owners to give up their property rights. No meaningful benefit to the community, region or society has ever been documented or proven.

RTD, Property Rights, and Eminent Domain Abuse, part 2


Is there any recourse for property owners caught in the path of FasTracks? Property rights attorney Robert Hoban, Jessica Corry of the Independence Institute, and the owners of Pro-Tint Windows Kim Snyder and Galen Foster join Jon Caldara to detail RTDs handling of property owners and abuse of eminent domain. Tune in this Friday night at 8:30 pm to KBDI Channel 12, Fridays; repeated the following Tuesday at 5 pm.

Eminent Domain – LIVE Conversation Portraits


EMINENT DOMAIN: THE AMERICAN DREAM ON SALE,” LIVE from the NYPL Conversation Portrait, illustrated by artist Flash Rosenberg and edited by Sarah Lohman, June 18, 2008. What is the American Dream? Does it mean having a better life by creating a home and a community, living together for generations, building and tending relationships to one another and to a place? Or do we create a “better life” by moving up, moving out, removing the old, replacing with the new? Between 1949 and 1973, urban renewal, a program of the US government, bulldozed 2500 neighborhoods in 993 American cities and dispossessed one million people. Roots got cut, neighbors and families became separated, languages and cultures were destroyed, and social bonds were broken. Marshall Berman, Professor of Political Science, City College and the Graduate Center; Mindy Fullilove, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Public Health at Columbia University; Tom Angotti, Professor of Urban Affairs & Planning at Hunter College; and Brian Berger, photographer/blogger, discuss the use of eminent domain and how urban renewal is changing the cityscape of New York City. Filmmaker Michael Galinsky moderates.

UPC Windfarm Prattsburgh Eminent Domain #2


On Monday April 21, 2008 the Prattsburgh Town Board voted to approve a resolution that allows for the use of eminent domain proceeding in order to facilitate the Windfarm Prattsburgh Project. Cohocton Wind Watch is appalled by a threat of an inappropriate application of legal confiscation that only benefits UPC Wind. UPC representatives and attorney refused to provide any evidence that sufficient wind exists in Prattsburgh to generate electricity from industrial wind turbines.

Susette Kelo: Act to End Eminent Domain Abuse, June 23, 2008


www.IJ.org Three years ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that my little pink cottage in New London, Connecticut, could be handed over to a private developer. It was just one of 10000 instances of eminent domain abuse to occur in the United States over a 5-year period. Just one instance—yet a tipping point that sparked a national revolution. On this, the third anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s dreadful decision, I’m asking for 10000 people to join me in donating to the non-profit legal foundation that stood by me all the way to the Supreme Court, and continues to stand by heroic individuals fighting to keep the homes that are rightfully theirs. By donating to the Institute for Justice on the anniversary of the ruling—June 23, 2008—you will become a Founding Member of the Susette Kelo Liberty Club. Every single dollar raised during this special event will be used to fight eminent domain abuse across the nation. And while all donations are appreciated, I hope you’ll consider giving your most generous gift of $25, $50, $100, or more. Even a $5 contribution will send a message to those in power that our homes are important to us and must be protected. Yours in Freedom, Susette Kelo