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Foes pack hearing on eminent domain bill
Farmers, ranchers and other rural property owners packed a hearing room Wednesday at the Capitol to oppose a bill that would grant eminent domain power to private transmission line developers.
January 12, 2011
by John S. Adams
in Great Falls Tribune
HELENA - Farmers, ranchers and other rural property owners packed a hearing room Wednesday at the Capitol to oppose a bill that would grant eminent domain power to private transmission line developers.
Opponents of House Bill 198 railed against the effect of the bill on private property rights, saying the Legislature should not grant a private company the legal authority to condemn private land for profit.
The proposed measure came after a Glacier County district judge ruled last month that Tonbridge Power Inc. of Toronto did not have the authority to exercise the right of eminent domain to build the 214-mile... [continue via Web link]
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