Jan 19, 2024 | Actions
BISMARCK, N.D. (KXNET) — The Northwest Landowners Conference wrapped up Thursday in Bismarck.
Organizers say they wanted property owners to have some good information to take home.
“We see corporate America using the eminent domain, the quick cake, onto our property. So we wanted to put together a meeting with the best of the best from across the nation,” said Troy Coons, a Chairman with the Northwest Landowners Association.
The Northwest Landowners Association discussed landowners’ Fourth Amendment and Fifth Amendment rights.
The Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution states:
“Private property shall not be taken for the use of, or ownership by, any private individual or entity, unless that property is necessary for conducting a common carrier or utility business.”
Sure, wind, water, solar, oil, and CO2 can bring a lot of opportunities to our state. However, it can also raise concerns and problems with those who own the land where these projects are taking place.
“We are not looking to the Republican side or the Democratic side. We are united in the property rights fight and the citizen rights. So, it’s all of those fundamental rights of our country that we believe in,” said Coons.
The Fifth Amendment states in part: “Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
This is talking about eminent domain. Eminent domain is a common concern amongst landowners because of the Summit Carbon Pipeline. The CO2 pipeline was a big topic at the conference.
Dec 18, 2023 | Actions
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a lawsuit on Monday against BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management firm with approximately $9 trillion in assets under management.
The lawsuit accuses BlackRock of leveraging its influence over companies in which it holds shares to pressure management to pursue goals such as achieving “net-zero” carbon emissions and aligning their policies with the 2015 Paris Climate Agreements.
It also claims that BlackRock misled investors by asserting that they could achieve higher returns through ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investments.
Dec 17, 2023 | Actions
In September of 2022 the United States Department of Agriculture, without congressional approval or oversight, announced they were spending $3.1 Billion dollars to implement Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities Projects. This money has since been handed over to some the country’s largest agriculture corporations, associations, and universities. Some of the notable payments are: $90 million to ADM, $95 million to Iowa Soybean Association, $60 million to the Nature Conservancy, 27 different universities with payments ranging from $4 million to $80 million. These are 123 total listed as, “lead partners” but if you read the description of the programs you will find, “other major partners” which include every major company in the food business, from Cargill to Costco. The most disgusting payment of all was $40 million dollars to the largest ag media corporation Farm Journal. Why would the government pay a media company $40 million to implement an environmental program? Control the messenger, control the message, aka state run media.
Dec 10, 2023 | Actions
One of the major founding ideals behind the creation of the United States is being threatened right now in Iowa, according to Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.
John Locke, the Enlightenment thinker whose writings were mined in the production of the Declaration of Independence, believed that the fundamental natural rights of man were life, liberty, and property, according to Teach Democracy.
The last is now in danger as Iowa farmers could be forced to sell their property so that carbon-capture pipelines can crisscross the Midwest, Ramaswamy said in a video posted to X.
Dec 5, 2023 | Counties
Today in Lincoln Co, Commissioner Arends was trying to exploit this, even though he knows SD laws allow county ordinances for routing…not safety…that is still the federal level, but without mentioning safety counties can place set backs as orderly development at planning and zoning as well as depth etc.
Dec 2, 2023 | Counties
As the ethanol lobby pushes for Summit Carbon Solutions’ carbon dioxide sequestration pipeline, Jamie Fisk of Tulare doesn’t want carbon dioxide pipeliners taking his land or anyone else’s. He wants every county commission to join his Spink County Commission and four other counties in enacting moratoria on carbon dioxide pipelines:
South Dakota citizens need your help.
