[Smokin' Joe]

The western third of this state is criss-crossed with pipelines, emplaced over the 65 years (roughly) the oil industry has been producing oil here. To my knowledge (and I have worked in that industry 35+ years) no one had been forced out of their home to allow someone to build a pipeline, at least not here. Then again, we aren't as crowded as NYC or New Jersey, by any metric.

IIRC, the very land that the Kelo case was over, was taken but not developed. That often seems to be the case reading about such cases, that people lose their homes to eminent domain when and where they do and the original precept that is used to deprive them of those homes turns out to be false.

Perhaps a legislative remedy would be to prohibit any developer who siezed property by eminent domain from participating in another eminent domain action in any way if they had failed to produce the benefits they had used to justify the seizure of a parcel in the past.

Imho, that might stop what appear to be capricious or even vindictive seizure actions.

[miss marmelstein]

The Kelo situation was a complete disaster. I was involved in helping Long Branch, NJ fight off waterfront developers. Those people were brave! (A lot of ED happens around waterfronts - rivers and the ocean.)

Out west, don’t people lose land if not their actual homes?