Here is a link to the report in this morning's Mitchell Daily Republic regarding TransCanada, Excerpts:
Lillian Anderson of Langford and Kent Moeckly of Britton were served with legal papers on successive days earlier this month; those papers will b Curt Hohn, general manager for WEB Water Development of Aberdeen, said his company has never had to invoke eminent domain proceedings for water lines.
"We negotiated and worked things out," he said. "There’s an arrogance in TransCanada we’ve never encountered before."
TransCanada unlike area water boards has no local presence.
egin eminent domain condemnation proceedings. They each said they weren’t offered much choice.
Moeckly said he rejected the first offer and then TransCanada returned with a "better easement."
"Then I got served. Their third response was eminent domain. Most people are given a take-it-or-leave-it choice, but the (eminent domain) statute requires negotiation and I haven’t seen that," he said.
Moeckley said the pipeline, which cuts through four quarters of his property, is a major threat to his farming operation.
Anderson said she, too, was given papers on Sept. 6 and was offered a "take this or take nothing" choice.
"That’s not how we negotiate in South Dakota," she said.
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Curt Hohn, general manager for WEB Water Development of Aberdeen, said his company has never had to invoke eminent domain proceedings for water lines.
“We negotiated and worked things out,” he said. “There’s an arrogance in TransCanada we’ve never encountered before.”
TransCanada unlike area water boards has no local presence.
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