[BJungNan]

For a highway, for a power line or sewer project, for any sort of public works, okay. But so some private individual can come in and make profit off your land, no way! This is wrong.

The public has a right to expect public works projects. They should not expect an individual to suffer loss of property simply because they do not want to drive a little farther to another store.

The U.S. is lost.

[af_vet_rr]

For a highway, for a power line or sewer project, for any sort of public works, okay. But so some private individual can come in and make profit off your land, no way! This is wrong.

These kinds of things are going on all over the place. Nobody gives a **** until it happens to them.

It's not just your local governments either.

This is why property rights and ownership mean less and less.

As stupid as it sounds, if anybody is worried about their land being taken for something like this, your best defense is to document the wildlife there, have some biologists do a few surveys and write-ups about the part it plays in the local ecosystem, and get the enviros on your side. Had a friend do something like this (bugged the hell out of him to do it) and it worked, amazing the "rights" that a certain type of bird has, while we humans don't.