Coal companies, timber companies, federal govt., Revenuers...you name it, pretty much any outsider that comes in making promises has [bleep] over, stolen and taken advantage of the locals in most of Appalachia. Most of the folks that settled the area fled here from countries where they were being treated the same way, so like I said before, being from this area, we're a little more hypersensitive to any situation where someone is trying to strip us of liberties.
Same thing happening here with oil and gas companies using eminent domain.
maybe 40 years ago. Pipelines are paying out more to keep you from joining the protesters.
No, it’s happening now. They just use midstream companies instead of doing it themselves. Use of eminent domain is off the charts right now.
Everytime they add a new pipeline through my place, the payout decimal place moves over one place in the nice direction.
If you're upset about it... protest.
The last line through my place got stopped by "honor the earth" group.
The trick is you can't stop them just because you're a whiner, you need to get an environmental cause behind you to get support and funding.
You can do it.
