New Jersey has the State Farmland Preservation Project. Farms that are active in the project are armed with information including:
- that there is no eminent domain authority for electric utility and intrastate natural gas pipeline projects.
- A “utility company cannot cross a preserved farm. “
- public use projects that do qualify for eminent domain authority have to follow very specific compensation guidelines and that the project can approve or deny negotiations with a landowner.
NJ Department of Agriculture | Condemnation on Preserved Farmland SADC to Pipeline Companies: Stay off Preserved Farms