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ThatOneSalesGuy t1_jdm110y wrote

Reply to comment by the_dorf in Dozens of York County properties will be underwater if Pa. energy project is approved by Aggravating_Foot_528

How is it a tough call? Energy companies should have no right to force people out of their homes just to make an extra dollar. Pa is a net energy exporter, we don’t need another power plant! We need homes!

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Super_C_Complex t1_jdm91kd wrote

I'm not sure why you're being down voted.

It literally says in the article that it would be a private company doing this and would require multiple people to lose their homes and farms.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a private company can't exercise eminent domain so it would have to be up to the government. And I'm not sure if townships are given eminent Domain authority

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the_dorf t1_jdmen5p wrote

This is the thing; the private company would have to buy up the land of those homes affected in order to move forward with the development. Probably buy it unfairly to the residents of the area (rural), where their relocation would not be equally the same.

It feels somewhat similar to how the Phantoms hockey arena and the redevelopment of downtown Allentown that private entities used eminent domain to rebuild the area. It's been a decade now and while its nice the area is rebuilt okay (a sinkhole haven), but the people they wanted to move in (young professionals) have not really filled in well.

It's a tough call on what happens. I feel bad for the residents. Another issue is the ecology of the environment of both the fauna/flora. Read about the issues with shad reproduction, and its sad.

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