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What state allows an auditor to look at eminent domain? Oklahoma
What was the Oklahoma state auditor reviewing that included eminent domain? Records, process and procedure at Creek County, Oklahoma
What eminent domain related violations did the OK auditor find?
What state regulators refused eminent domain powers for a pipeline? Georgia
Why did Georgia deny eminent domain authority? For reasons including that the pipeline would not provide any direct benefit for Georgia, the pipeline only went through the state without dropping off goods in the state.
What happened after the denial of eminent domain by state regulators? 4 things.
Wharton area residents are reciving information on Comptroller Hegar’s legislative enacted Eminent Domain transperancy data base set to go online soon.
Wharton Journal Spectator | New law promotes transparency for eminent domain
Eminent domain tops the headlines for 2015 in South Carolina.
What’s the eminent domain issue in South Carolina? A pipeline that caused private proeprty right activist snd environmental activists to join forces.
What’s the legislative and regulatory impact? The issue with the pipeline is whether a public benefit occurs in South Carolina. The pipeline has hit hiccups with the regulatory agency and the legislature.
The Augusta Chronicler | Top 10: Palmetto Pipeline creates stir in 2015
State Rep. Grassley, grandson to US Senator Grassley, has 2 points to make to a clean energy line that wants to use eminent domain in Iowa:
To counter Arkansas’ Congressmen opposition to the Plains & Eastern Clean Line transmission line, which would run through Arkansas but not provide electricity in Arkansas, an economic study was released.
Who authored the economic study? the Center for Business and Economic Research at UA’s Sam M. Walton College of Business
What economic boon for Arkansas did the report show?
Who filed a bill? Republican House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, R-Utah
What motivated him? Learning that federal agencies used 61% of the Land and Water Conservation Fund to acquire land
What is the agency response? “The Interior Department argues it doesn’t use eminent domain to grab up contested land, but rather as a legal tool to reach a price agreement with willing sellers. “
What bill wants to limit eminent domain power in power line cases? Congressmen Boozman & Womack each filed the Assuring Private Property Rights Over Vast Access to Land, or APPROVAL, Act, which would rewrite Section 1222 of the 2005 Energy Policy Act
What is it they want to limit? Federal government eminent domain authority in power line construction.
Why do they want to limit federal eminent domain power? They want to shift leverage to the states in interstate power line…
Air BnB is putting in $3.6 million to defeat San Francisco’s ballot proposition concerning short term rentals.
What’s the regulatory problem? The ordinance would restrict how often property owners can rent out their spaces and establish new mechanisms for enforcing those limits.
What’s going on with supporters of this ordinance? They have about $200,000 & consist of national labor union, hotel workers, and the San Francisco Apartment Association.
A new documentary details the plight of landowners that oppose the Bluegrass Pipeline. Top 5 complaints from landowners:
What was the end result?