Profits Take Priority Over Property Rights

Profits Over Property Rights

Once I thought that with proper laws and setbacks wind turbines could play a limited role in our area, but now I see the true wind damage: eminent domain, the poster child for wind power. Property rights are the heart of the issue. Can rights to profit of a few trump the rights of many? Do wind power supporters sanctify the seizure of people’s private property to make a project feasible?

Transmission lines will be needed for the Galloo and all the proposed wind projects. Seems that in making a project feasible, energy companies get a legal right to confiscate your land against your will for transmission lines. This gives them total power over our property rights and our private property. Continue reading Profits Take Priority Over Property Rights

Canyon Lake Gorge – Information

To Canyon Lake Gorge, geologic time has a whole different meaning. You could say it dates to around the end of the Enron era. In 2002, a torrent of water from an overflowing lake sliced open the earth, exposing rock formations, fossils and even dinosaur; footprints in only three days! Since that event, the canyon has been accessible only to researchers to protect it from vandals, but on October 6 it opened to its “doors” to the public. Continue reading Canyon Lake Gorge – Information