The article does not say why Suzanne Matteo does not want to lease a portion of the land. Why would she not want to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars. Obviously, someone fed her a bunch of propaganda that oil drilling will doom the planet.
It seem like the Kelo decision would allow the local government to bulldoze her property, make it a public park and put the royalties into their treasury.
Not that I advocate such a course of action.
Send the oil companies to my neighborhood. I’ll let them drill a mile down for a signing bonus & 18% royalties!
Oh please come to my town and find oil under my land. Hundreds of thousands of dollars + royalties?
Where do I sign and then I am so outta here....