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Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Tuesday, November 30, 2010
 
Seneca Indian Nation to pursue hydropower license
The Wall Street Journal, New York, NY (Associated Press) – Nov 30, 2010
…The plant's location at the Kinzua Dam recalls a painful part of the Senecas' past. The U.S. government used eminent domain to take 10,000 acres of the Senecas' Allegany Reservation so the dam could be built to control river flooding.


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, November 26, 2010
 
Allentown Redevelopment Authority targeted
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Nov 25, 2010
…Pawlowski said the day-to-day activities of the authority — managing its inventory of properties, overseeing the blighted property review procedure and taking properties through eminent domain — will be handled by city staff and the legal department…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, November 19, 2010
 
12 city properties declared blighted
Reading Eagle, Reading, PA – Nov 19, 2010
…The committee also ruled that owners of eight properties, including the Savorys, missed the 60-day deadline and the city now has the right to take the properties, possibly by eminent domain…

Selinsgrove couple honored with agriculture award
The Daily Item, Selinsgrove, PA – Nov 19, 2010
…"We saved several businesses by suggesting the bypass route be more direct instead of cutting through the Fishers' farm," Benner said. Without his comments and exhibits, including aerial photos of the land in question, the bypass route would have cut through a family farm, through the use of eminent domain…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, November 17, 2010
 
Penn State forum focuses on future regulation of natural gas pipelines
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA – Nov 17, 2010
…Gathering lines are not considered public utilities in Pennsylvania, but Stephen Saunders, an oil and gas and environmental attorney, spoke about two applications to the PUC by pipeline companies seeking public utility status - a designation that would give the companies the power of eminent domain to condemn pipeline rights-of-way…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, November 15, 2010
 
Pipeline companies may seek eminent domain
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA – Oct 14, 2010
…"If eminent domain seizes property from one private property owner and gives it to another private property owner, that is very problematic. Things like that I have a big problem with," said Mr. Rosenberg…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Friday, November 12, 2010
 
Flooded with memories
The Morning Call, Allentown, PA – Nov 11, 2010
…Varkony's family was one of nearly 250 families forced to surrender their homes in the 1960s to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under the right of eminent domain. The state bought 5,286 acres of what was known at the Tohickon Valley and surrounding Bucks County areas to build the 1,450-acre Lake Nockamixon and the surrounding Nockamixon State Park…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, November 11, 2010
 
New study puts a hefty price on Philadelphia blight
Philadelphia Inquirer, PA – Nov 11, 2010
…Nutter is only the latest mayor to try to eliminate blight. Former Mayor John F. Street raised nearly $300 million in bonds to demolish crumbling houses and acquire vacant parcels through eminent domain, though the program fell short of its goals…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Wednesday, November 10, 2010
 
Development help offered to man who’s fighting City Hall
Philadelphia Daily News, Nov 10, 2010
…"I'm an activist from going way back," Adams said, "and I've seen a lot of things happen in University City with eminent domain. When the city wants your property or wants you to move, they will move you.”…

‘Taking of land’ wording included in proposed York Twp. map
The York Daily Record, PA – Nov 10, 2010
…Commissioner George Jones also said he is concerned the map could bring about the use of eminent domain.
"I have a terrible problem with the word 'taking,'" Commissioner Kenneth Silberstein said. "What's the rush to get this done?"…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, November 08, 2010
 
Tinicum residents battle airport expansion in order to keep their homes
Delaware County Daily Times, Primos, PA – Nov 7, 2010
…FAA officials said in an-e-mailed statement that while the agency does have authority to acquire property by condemnation, it strongly encourages the airport to negotiate with affected property owners in accordance with the policies of the Uniform Relocation Act…

SW Pa. Marcellus company seeks ‘utility’ status
The Philadelphia Inquirer, PA (Associated Press) – Nov 5, 2010
...If the state Public Utility Commission grants the request, Peregrine Keystone Gas Pipeline LLC, of Fort Worth, will be able to seize private land through eminent domain if it can't negotiate deals with land owners…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Thursday, November 04, 2010
 
Pa. Governor-elect Corbett a ‘tough guy’ from beginning
The Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA – Nov 4, 2010
…His family moved to Harrisburg when he was 1 year old, then to Shaler when he was in first grade, so his father, an attorney, could work on eminent domain legal issues for construction of Pittsburgh's Civic Arena, Three Rivers Stadium and Allegheny Center Mall…


Pennsylvania eminent domain news

Monday, November 01, 2010
 
Officials approve Transportation authority
The Times Herald, Norristown, PA – Nov 1, 2010
The Montgomery County Commissioners voted 2-1 to form a Transportation Authority Wednesday to help streamline property condemnation for current and future transportation projects…

Town above mine fire asks courts for help
Pittburgh Post-Gazette, PA (Associated Press) – Nov 1, 2010
…The residents asked a federal judge Friday for an injunction that would bar the state from proceeding with eminent domain while their lawsuit, filed earlier this week, is heard…

Class action suit accuses Pennsylvania of using mine fire to seize coal-rich land
AllGov.com, CA – Nov 1, 2010
…the law firm representing the coal interests, made a claim for subsurface mineral rights below Centralia, and the Columbia County Redevelopment Authority initiated a claim of eminent domain…


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