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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1816097" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>I have an attorney working on the power line easement. He is representing 25 landowners in this county. This is a 500k mega watt powerline. It will cross a mile of my property and have 5 of those big steel towers. The site is nasty nasty ground. In that mile there is over 2,000 feet of elevation increase. Their first offer was more like an insult. My attorney went back with a counter offer which was a lot bigger. They came back with an offer that was 8 times their original offer with the sitpulation that sign in 14 days or they would take me to court. The Lawyer said don't get excited and sign anything. Power company came back 14 days later with the same offer but this time they gave me another 40 days to sign. Lawyer chuckled. He says he would fun to be in front of a Baker County jury with his information and case. He laid out his case to me. He feels confident and so do I. They wont be building anything else on this easement. Certainly not a pipeline. There is already a pipeline down by the freeway on land much more suitable for that type of project. </p><p>The GRP just requires that you leave it in grass. 95% of this ground can never be worked. It would be suicide to attempt to get on i twith a tractor of any sort. I am leaving the hay meadows out of the contract. Some requirement about bird nesting. That leaves around 1,130+/- acres going into the program.</p><p>The first picture is where the power line is going to go. That knob in the center is where the first tower will be. That is a whole lot steeper than it looks in the picture.</p><p>Second picture is a good portion of the GRP. Again it is much steeper than it looks in the picture. It is grass and will never be anything else.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]34000[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]34001[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1816097, member: 498"] I have an attorney working on the power line easement. He is representing 25 landowners in this county. This is a 500k mega watt powerline. It will cross a mile of my property and have 5 of those big steel towers. The site is nasty nasty ground. In that mile there is over 2,000 feet of elevation increase. Their first offer was more like an insult. My attorney went back with a counter offer which was a lot bigger. They came back with an offer that was 8 times their original offer with the sitpulation that sign in 14 days or they would take me to court. The Lawyer said don't get excited and sign anything. Power company came back 14 days later with the same offer but this time they gave me another 40 days to sign. Lawyer chuckled. He says he would fun to be in front of a Baker County jury with his information and case. He laid out his case to me. He feels confident and so do I. They wont be building anything else on this easement. Certainly not a pipeline. There is already a pipeline down by the freeway on land much more suitable for that type of project. The GRP just requires that you leave it in grass. 95% of this ground can never be worked. It would be suicide to attempt to get on i twith a tractor of any sort. I am leaving the hay meadows out of the contract. Some requirement about bird nesting. That leaves around 1,130+/- acres going into the program. The first picture is where the power line is going to go. That knob in the center is where the first tower will be. That is a whole lot steeper than it looks in the picture. Second picture is a good portion of the GRP. Again it is much steeper than it looks in the picture. It is grass and will never be anything else. [ATTACH type="full"]34000[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]34001[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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