Feb. 27—BENSON — Landowners are taking advantage of the opportunity to provide early input as Otter Tail Power Company and Missouri River Energy Services review two possible routes for a proposed 345-kilovolt transmission line to connect substations at Big Stone City, South Dakota, and Alexandria, Minnesota. There were 81 attendees for an open house meeting […]
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Could Bourbon County landowners lose their property for a $320 million military project?
When her family was planning to leave California in the early 2000s, local realtor Rebecca Rigney searched far and wide for a potential new home in Central Kentucky. She eventually landed on a 300-acre farmland tract in southern Bourbon County next to the Fayette County line and a stone’s throw from Bluegrass Station, a state-owned […]
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 […]