30. Heired Property Research and Laws Along the ACP

Addyson Rowe is a Research Assistant intern with us at BREDL and graduate student in Environmental Science Policy at Duke University. She has been identifying heired properties that Dominion energy has bought or tried to buy in order to construct the pipeline there. A lot of these properties end up not getting signed off on by the owners because heir properties have so many owners that often don’t even live in the state anymore, so they can’t get in contact with them to sign or they fail to show up to court and Dominion automatically gets the land by default; without having to pay all of the owners. She is calling attention to this as well as identifying the different amounts paid to owners depending on when they agreed to sign.

Gabrielle James is an intern with us a BREDL and a law student at UNC Chapel Hill. She is doing legal research on the Atlantic coast pipelines acquisition of heired property or essentially property that is passed to heirs without a will. This practice significantly disadvantages poor people and communities of color and allows corporations like Dominion who were building the ACP to easily (and often unfairly) acquire property and easements.

Contact and connect with Addyson and Gabrielle: [email protected] and [email protected]

Heired Properties: https://friendsofnelson.com/bredl-releases-report-on-union-hill/

http://www.bredl.org/safeguard_americas_resources/200407_ACP_Invasion_during_Pandemic.htm

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article185036078.html

Cancellation of the ACP: https://atlanticcoastpipeline.com/news/2020/7/5/dominion-energy-and-duke-energy-cancel-the-atlantic-coast-pipeline.aspx

Eminent Domain: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/eminent_domain

https://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-domain

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