#eminentdomain — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #eminentdomain, aggregated by home.social.
-
The battle over People’s Park is over. Berkeley hasn’t yet kept its promise
Behind the shipping containers, a $312 million dorm is nearly done, while the building meant to house those it displaced has not broken ground.
"The $312 million Judith E. Heumann House, named for the disability rights pioneer, will offer apartment-style housing for more than 1,100 undergraduates. However, a long-promised project meant to house the people the development displaced has yet to begin."
You don't say...
https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/06/peoples-park-berkeley-dorm-unhoused/ #UCAccessNow #NeoliberalHellhole #Housing #EminentDomain
-
@thenextweb @amalia22 @tnw-all-stories-thenextweb #DataCenters should be #EminentDomain seizures and converted to giant #BatteryStorage facilities for #Solar farms connected to the #grid.
-
🐘 Nashville’s wielding eminent domain like a toddler with a sledgehammer, smashing data centers near #zoos because apparently, #Bandwidth & #Baboons don’t mix. 🙈 Meanwhile, the article is more locked down than a vault of Area 51 secrets. 🔒
https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project #EminentDomain #Nashville #DataCenters #HackerNews #ngated -
The Conversation: When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?. “I’m a legal scholar who studies eminent domain issues, and I interpret today’s disputes over seizure of property for the benefit of AI infrastructure as the latest incarnation of a long-standing debate about the limits of taking private property for public use.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/22/the-conversation-when-can-a-power-company-take-your-land-for-data-center-infrastructure/ -
Power companies are using #eminentdomain to seize land for #datacenters as 70% of Americans say not in my backyard
https://fortune.com/2026/07/19/data-center-eminent-domain-public-use/
-
When can a power company take your land for #datacenter infrastructure?
Government can seize private land to make way for new #AI data center transmission lines — takeovers could be implemented using eminent domain when citizens refuse to sell #EminentDomain can force land sales regardless of owner's consent
While massive superclusters are necessary for technological revolution AI has brought about, there's growing opposition to their construction over several concerns.
https://theconversation.com/when-can-a-power-company-take-your-land-for-data-center-infrastructure-284061 -
Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers
https://fortune.com/2026/07/19/data-center-eminent-domain-public-use/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974292
#HackerNews #eminentdomain #datacenters #landrights #powercompanies #publicuse #technologynews
-
Don't want to sell your home to allow companies to build an AI data centre? No problem! See, the government has this thing called "eminent domain"...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-power-ai-data-centers-eminent-domain/
#Housing #Georgia #AI #DataCenter #Government #EminentDomain
-
#Georgia family says they're forced to sell home to help power #AIDatacenters: "It's theft"
By Shannon Luibrand
Updated on: July 13, 2026"Sell your home, or the state will take it — that's the ultimatum some homeowners in Georgia say they are facing amid the AI boom.
"Utility giant #GeorgiaPower is planning to build a new transmission line to in part help power new #datacenters. It estimates 70-80% of the power on the new line will help serve data centers and the remaining 20-30% of power will serve the state's growing residential and commercial demand.
"According to the company, increasing demand has outpaced the capacity of its existing grid and building a new transmission line requires acquiring more than 300 parcels of land, including residential properties.
"Ansley Brown's childhood home that she said was built when she was 5 or 6 years old is just one of the properties impacted.
" 'It's ours,' she told CBS News. 'It's our family. We belong here.'
"Her mother wanted the property to serve as 'true generational wealth,' Brown said, adding that now 'it's being stripped from us.'
"Brown's mother recently came to an agreement with Georgia Power to sell. If she didn't, Brown said the utility could have sought to acquire the property through #EminentDomain — which is a legal process that allows private property to be taken, with compensation, for projects determined to serve a public purpose.
" 'To us it's theft. It's literally a billion dollar company stealing land from smaller people, people who can't fight back. We don't have the money to fight Georgia Power,' Brown said.
"Holly Lovett, a spokesperson for Georgia Power, said eminent domain 'is always … a last resort for us and it's something we never want to do.'
"The company said it feels as if it's done the process responsibly, but Brown disagrees.
" 'You can't tear down 35 miles of rural Georgia and it not hurt something or somebody. And to say that you're doing it in the name of data centers is a slap in the face to us, our community, our animals,' she said.
"A few months ago Brown took her story to TikTok and began sharing stories of others in similar situations. She said that while she knows it's too late to save her home, she doesn't want to see this happen to others."
Read more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia-power-ai-data-centers-eminent-domain/ -
If you are following the situation in Tom’s River, NJ (the town is trying to use #EminentDomain to seize church property to turn into a park after the church submitted plans to the #zoning commission to build a #homeless shelter), here are some ways to help: #Epsicopal #TomsRiver
-
Just in case you have not had your fill of nauseating northeastern property developers...
-
When it comes to standing up to #Trump, I laud #Maine Governor #JanetMills. But when it comes to #Wabanaki #Sovereignty, building wind terminals on undeveloped islands (#SearsIsland / #Wahsumkik ), destroying untouched forests to supply #WesternMass with electricity, or building highways through farmland (#MDOT), we definitely DO NOT always see eye-to-eye!
Governor opposed to latest change to #SettlementAct backed by #WabanakiNations
by Emma Davis
Wed, April 9, 2025"Discussion of legislation to afford the Wabanaki Nations more authority over their land revealed that Gov. Janet Mills does not support the change, presenting a steep path for a plan that otherwise has bipartisan support.
"After not testifying during the public hearing last week, the governor’s counsel, Jerry Reid, told the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that Mills’ concerns stem from the inability to predict the future needs of state government, an issue also raised in written testimony from the #MaineDepartmentOfTransportation, which was made available after the hearing.
"When pressed by committee members, Reid said he doesn’t have a specific example of an infrastructure project that would warrant seizing tribal land but that, 'We need to write the law mindful of the potential for problems.'
"While Reid and Wabanaki leaders noted that progress has and continues to be made to improve the relationship between the state and Wabanaki Nations, Reid added, 'the fact that we have such a good relationship right now might not always be true.'
"The U.S. government can seize private property for public use, a principle known as eminent domain, however that authority is restricted by the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which requires just compensation for land taken, as well as some federal laws.
"The 1834 federal Indian Nonintercourse Act prohibited land transactions with tribes unless authorized by Congress. However, the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act specified that that federal law was not applicable to the #HoultonBand of #Maliseet Indians, the #PassamaquoddyTribe and the #PenobscotNation.
"This is the act that has overall resulted in the Tribes being treated more akin to #municipalities than #SovereignNations. So far, sweeping changes to the act have failed due to opposition from Mills, but the governor, lawmakers and Wabanaki leaders have successfully made some targeted adjustments, including expanding tribal authority to prosecute crimes last year.
"The legislation being considered this session, #LD958, would amend the Settlement Act to prohibit the state from exercising eminent domain on trust and reservation land, which is protected under federal law, though fee land — or private property for which the owner owns the title — would still be subject to the state taking.
"The bill would also amend the 2023 #MikmaqNationRestorationAct to make this change for the Mi’kmaq Nation, which wasn’t included in the Settlement Act.
"On Tuesday, the Taxation Committee unanimously voted in favor of a bill to ensure equal tax treatment among all of the Wabanaki Nations, which Mills supports. #LD982 would provide the #MikmaqNation the same rights to sales tax revenue on its land that the other three tribes of the Wabanaki Nations were granted in 2022 through an amendment to the Settlement Act.
State hasn’t exercised this authority in decades, but argues it’s necessary"The state hasn’t exercised eminent domain over #TribalLands since the #SettlementAct. However, testimony from Wabanaki leaders and state government officials underscore that it is a possibility."
Source:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/governor-opposed-latest-change-settlement-185134791.html#MaineSettlementAct #EminentDomain #LandTheft #FirstNations #WabanakiConfederancy
#MaineFirstNations #Maine #MainePol
#NativeAmericanNews #TribalSovereignty #SaveSmilingHillFarm #SaveTheForests #MainePol #IndigenousPeoplesDay -
The #JusticeDepartment #warned #ElonMusk’s #AmericaPAC in recent days that his $1 million #sweepstakes to #registeredvoters in #swingstates may #violate #federallaw, people briefed on the matter told #CNN.
#Federallaw #bars #paying #people to #registertovote.
— #EminentDomain his #companies, #Revoke his #citizenship, and then #ban him from the country forever.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/elon-musk-justice-department-letter
-
Bringing the Ancestors Home
By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
Sept. 9, 2024OKEMAH, #Oklahoma --"Les Williston, #Choctaw, spoke on living life with honor, during the Convening of the Four Winds gathering at the Phillip Deere Round House on Sunday, hosted by the
#Mvskoke family of the international rights leader Phillip Deere."'Your ancestors are always around,' Williston said, speaking of the #SacredPlaces along the rivers. Williston is entrusted with bringing the Chahta ancestors home."
[...]
"Williston said that all along the rivers, like the #KiamachiRiver in southeastern Oklahoma, there are sacred places, places that are the heart of the people, places where the council was built.
"Speaking on bringing the ancestors home at the Phillip Deer Roundhouse on Muscogee Creek land, Williston was joined by Native people from throughout the nation during the two-day weekend gathering. They shared the history of the struggle for #NativeAmericanRights, the hard-won victories of the 1970s, and the ongoing struggles to protect the water and rivers -- as the #racism, threats of #EminentDomain seizures, the violence of #ManCamps of the #OilAndGas industry, the desecration of #LithiumMining in burial places, and the manipulations of the United States government continue.
With gratitude to the Native women gathered here, Williston said he appreciates the strength of the women speaking and their leadership, for it is a #matriarchal culture."'It is important that the women take the lead,' he said. 'I hear the wisdom come from these ladies.' 'We should always listen to the women, our clan mothers and clan sisters.'"
Full article:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/bringing-ancestors-home.html#Chahta #FourWinds #WaterIsLife #ConveningOfTheFourWinds #DefendTheSacred #HonorTheAncestors
-
Watch “Uprooted," a new short #documentary that examines a Black community’s decades-long battle to hold onto their land as city officials wielded eminent domain to establish and expand Christopher Newport University in #Virginia:
#Gentrification #Cities #News #Race #Education #Universities #EminentDomain
-
Well, this scenario is certainly not new. SMH
"An eminent domain battle in one of Georgia's poorest areas just began that could have implications for property law across the state and the nation." https://thegrio.com/2023/11/28/black-retirees-on-fixed-incomes-could-suffer-if-railroad-allowed-to-build-rail-line-in-georgia/
#eminentdomain #Blackmastodon #Blackfediverse -
#Virginia Law Allows the Papers of #University Presidents to Stay Secret, Limiting Public Oversight
==A provision in state law exempts college presidents’ “working papers and correspondence” from disclosure even after they step down — as we found out when we asked about one ex-president’s role in campus expansions that uprooted a Black neighborhood.
-
Virginia’s Public Universities Have a Long History of Displacing Black Residents
==Schools including Old Dominion and the flagship University of Virginia have expanded by dislodging #Black #families, sometimes by the threat or use of #EminentDomain.
#Education #Schools #College #University #Virginia #UVA #Gentrification #History #News