No Eminent Domain for Private Gain. Gaining Steam Fighting Wind Power Lines.

A vocal group at a transmission line public meeting echoed the refrain- no eminent domain for private gain. It rhymes which makes it good for protest marches.

A Houston Company is the target of this group of landowners. The company, Clean Line Energy Partners, is seeking the federal government’s buy-in to a wind energy project in Oklahoma & Arkansas. If the federal government gets involved, then the company gets eminent domain authority. 

200 landowners showed up to a meeting. They were lock step in opinion. The highlights:

• “This project is about one thing, and that’s greed,” she said. “They don’t see our green trees, our land, our lives that are so important to us. They see a different kind of green, and that’s money.”
• Transmission lines would make their property useless and worthless
• Multiple local governments have voted in opposition to federal government involvement and in opposition to eminent domain

Project Supporters Say:

• The project will be a half-billion-dollar investment
• It will generate jobs
• It will provide 500 megawatts of low-cost, clean energy to Arkansas electric customers.
• Arkansas Wildlife Federation supports “the project as an opportunity to lower the state’s dependence on nonrenewable coal and other fossil fuels.”

Arkansas Online