So, yeah, he was on his own land but on the easement holder's part of it ~ more a landlord/tenant situation the way I read it.
So, ACLU? Where are they? Not likely ACLU will ever come to the defnese of a landlord.
The easment in question legally required notification of the land owner - as per the artoicle had you been literate enough to read it.
It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference where the equipment was parked.