Tag: landowners

Landowners raise concerns over proposed high-voltage line through SW Minnesota

Jan. 26—OLIVIA — Landowners and others took advantage of their opportunity to raise questions and voice their concerns as the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission and Department of Commerce hosted public hearings on Xcel Energy’s request to build an estimated $1 billion high-voltage transmission from Lyon County in southwest Minnesota to its Sherco power site in […]

Fly-tipping forces landowners to turn farms into ‘forts’

Fly-tipping in England had to be cleaned up 1.08 million times by local councils in 2022-23, the latest government figures reveal. Clearing the largest illegal tips cost £13.2m, but the number of court fines dropped by 17%, raising just £785,000. The figures, released on Wednesday, do not put a value on all fly-tipping costs and […]