• CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I just saw a video from a local news channel about a different patch of land in Georgia where Georgia Power was given an easement across a bunch of people’s land, essentially cutting these people’s property in half, then they clear cut the forest at the back of their properties and installed some giant transmission line towers also to power datacenters. One young couple interviewed had just bought their property and were planning on using the land to grow food but now they can’t and they also can’t sell because only half their property is usable despite them having paid for the entire plot.

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      It’s sort of the risk you take when buying a property with an easement though. Their realtor should have disclosed that.

      If it wasn’t there when they bought it the utility company should have had to at least pay market value for the land.

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        I think in this case they are actually using eminent domain for it.

        Basically they are reaching out to families, asking for permission, and then when denied that permission going through the state/town and getting permission that way.

        The easement taking up half their land was the “compromise” that the utility company gave them, because they already had a notice/permission from the town/state on the entire property. They were going to have the line no matter what, it was whether the current owners wanting to have part of the property, or none of the property. its pretty sickening.