Landowners

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 2 days ago
About 50 people are headed to Washington, D.C., to hear oral arguments in their long-running quest for compensation from the federal government for land taken during World War II for a military camp in western Kentucky. ...

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 2 days ago
Three Landowners have joined Environment Tasmania in applying to the Supreme Court for an order demanding the State Government explain the reasoning behind a section of the Pulp Mill Act. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 13 days ago
The provincial government currently sells the rights to the natural gas, which is taken from coal seams, and collects royalties from the companies that extract it. Alberta's coalbed methane reserves have been estimated to be worth as much as $1 trillion. ...

Source: www.cbc.ca --- 1 day ago
Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald agreed Tuesday to meet with a group of residents in Cape Breton fighting the high lease rates and access fees charged to property owners by a U.S.-based railway company. Members of the Cape Breton Railway Victims Association were told the news during a meeting in George's River, N.S. Monday night. ...

Source: www.springerlink.com --- 5 days ago
Abstract   In 2004, four focus groups consisting of agricultural Landowners were organized in Northcentral Iowa to assess opportunities for hunting along in-field shelterbelts and on adjacent lands. A majority of respondents (95%) allowed/practiced some hunting on their lands. About 55% of respondents indicated that the potential existed for developing a fee hunting market associated with in-field shelterbelts. Intangible features of hunting, such as recreation/enjoyment and better land stewardship, were ranked higher than tangible ones—additional income and provision of economic opportunities for local communities. Respondents were highly concerned with negative consequences of hunting—trespassing and hunter misconduct. On average, agricultural Landowners were willing to accept (WTA) US30 per visit per party of four hunters to allow hunting of ring - necked pheasants ( < i > Phasianus colchicus < / i > ) on their land . About 33 times the monetary compensation ( US 50) as those who lived in rural areas (US$10). Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s10457-008-9163-0 Authors Robert K. Grala, Mississippi State University Forest and Wildlife Research Center Box 9681 Mississippi State MS 39762-9681 USA Joe P. Colletti, Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Ames IA 50011-1050 USA Carl W. Mize, Iowa State University Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management Ames IA 50011-3221 USA Journal Agroforestry ...

Source: news.scotsman.com --- 16 days ago
THE law should be changed to allow birds of prey to be killed by Landowners when numbers grow out of control, according to a director of the Scottish Countryside Alliance. ...

Source: www.ksl.com --- 15 days ago
A group of Weber River Valley Landowners wants the Utah Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to allow anglers and other river users access to public waterways that flow through private land. ...

Source: www.rockymountainnews.com --- 8 days ago
Hundreds of Landowners embroiled in the Colorado conservation easement scandal may sue the Colorado Department of Revenue and the IRS in federal court in an effort to reclaim hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost land values. ...

Source: www.kentucky.com --- 2 days ago
A federal court in Washington will hear arguments from a group of Kentucky Landowners who claim they deserve more compensation for land that was taken from them to build a World War II-era military base. About 50 members of the Breckenridge Land Committee, comprising heirs of the former Landowners, planned to go to Washington for Tuesday's hearing before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The panel will hear arguments from attorneys for the committee and the U.S. government, which has argued that the Landowners have already been fairly compensated. The Landowners began the long-running case by suing the federal government in the 1960s. More than 1,000 heirs of former Landowners of 36,000 acres in Union, Webster and Henderson counties have been involved. In 2004, Judge Susan Braden of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims issued a preliminary award of $32.5 million: roughly the profits that the government made off selling the mineral rights to the land that became Camp Breckenridge. ...

Source: www.observer.com --- 16 days ago
Six weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear their federal lawsuit , Landowners fighting the use of eminent domain for the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn have filed another suit, this time in state court. Opposition group Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn put out a release today announcing the lawsuit, filed Friday, which claims the development was approved to benefit a private developer (Bruce Ratner) as opposed to benefit the public (which would justify the use of eminent domain), among other charges. "Far from emerging from a legitimate democratic process where the public interest is identified and articulated," the suit says, "the Project is the product of a developer's dream-and a conscious effort to bypass City procedures mandating meaningful local review, planning, democratic oversight and community input.  read more » ...

Source: www.observer.com --- 9 days ago
No Willets Point protests this afternoon. The main Willets Point Landowners group had planned a big truck rally at the Mets-Pirates game, planning to stop traffic as the contest came to a close, but now per an advisory, the group has canceled the event due to rain. The organization, the Willets Point Industry and Realty Association , planned the protest as the City Planning Commission is slated to hold a hearing on the planned Queens redevelopment Wednesday, part of a mega-hearing that includes the proposed rezonings of the Lower East Side and the planned middle-income development in Queens at Hunters Point South. The 61-acre Willets Point slated for redevelopment sits across the street from the Mets' new stadium, Citi Field. The Landowners group said via email that it would reschedule the protest. ...

Source: www.news-reporter.com --- 13 days ago
Wilkes County taxpayers, up in arms about recent property tax assessments that have shot up, are meeting Tuesday night, August 12, to map out a strategy to deal with what they say are inflated assessed property values at a time when ...

Source: www.rapidcityjournal.com --- 10 days ago
Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior, said lawyers representing thousands of Native Landowners will appeal a final ruling issued by a federal judge in a 12-year-long trust fund case. ...

Source: www.evesun.com --- 13 days ago
Most of the land in the group is located in southwestern Chenango County, with some as far north as East Pharsalia. The Oxford Land Group, as it’s called, started with roughly 600 acres on May 5 and closed... ...

Source: www.postsouth.com --- 17 days ago
A group of three large Landowners in East Iberville might file suit against the Iberville Parish Council if they cannot get relief from problems brought on by prolonged periods of flooding, parish officials said last week. At issue is the operation of the water control structure at Alligator Bayou, and the parish government might not be able to solve the problem, Parish President J. Mitchell Ourso Jr. told the Parish Council at a special meeting last week. The control structure, located at the intersection of East Baton Rouge, Iberville and Ascension parishes, is used to protect Iberville’s Eastside from flooding during hurricanes. It also serves to protect the interests of Alligator Bayou Tours, which operates on the Ascension side of the line and whose owners want the control structure kept closed to keep the water levels up for the business operation, Parish Attorney Scott Stassi said. Three Eastside timber growers who own some 4,000 acres of land in East Iberville hired Natural Resource Professionals to draft a plan, which company President Scott Nesbit said would not only improve the Landowners’ use of their property, but would serve multiple interests on the Eastbank. Presenting the plan to the Parish Council last week, Nesbit indicated the recommendations have the backing of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nesbit also s ...

Source: www.timesleader.com --- 6 days ago
TUNKHANNOCK – A packed Tunkhannock Area High School auditorium buzzed on Wednesday evening with one topic: natural-gas lease profits. ...

Source: www.venezuelanalysis.com --- 1 day ago
A Venezuelan indigenous community belonging to the Yukpa ethnic group, which is demanding legal title to its ancestral lands, was attacked last week by hundreds of armed aggressors. According to the Yukpa, the aggressors were hired by elite Landowners to evict the indigenous population from land each claim as theirs. By James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com read more ...

Source: www.scnow.com --- 12 hours ago
An empowerment workshop for Pee Dee area Landowners is scheduled for Aug. 25 in the Federation of Southern Cooperatives office, 1316 N. Irby St., Florence. According to Arthur Phalo of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s regional office in Atlanta, the purpose of the workshop is to “create awareness about the options available for making farmland more productive and profitable and to recruit/enroll these farmers into programs that work toward that end.” ...

Source: sofiaecho.com --- 14 days ago
More than 50 Landowners in the area of the Natura 2000 area of IrakliEmine along Bulgarias Black Sea coast protested on August 5 in front of the Regional inspectorate for environment and water in Bourgas, threatening to set their own lands on fire. The Landowners are angry over the July 27 decision by Environment and Water Affairs Minister Djevdet Charukov to extend the ban on construction in the area with ...