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Grinning_Dragon 
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Posted on: Sep. 05 2011,6:51 pm |
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From your daily fish wrap
http://www.albertleatribune.com/2011...ntracts
QUOTE MINNEAPOLIS — There might be hidden treasures under Ron Brodigan’s land, and he’s not happy about that at all.
Almost half of the 260 acres near Isabella owned by Brodigan and his son could be subject to drilling based on leases the state awarded last spring to companies that search for valuable minerals. Under Minnesota law, landowners have little say in the process and don’t get a cut of the profits, even if they eventually lose their land.
The state’s Executive Council, made up of the governor and other top state officers, voted 5-0 in June to send the leases back to the Department of Natural Resources for more work after Brodigan and other landowners objected.
The council was supposed to revisit the issue at its regular meeting Sept. 7. But Gov. Mark Dayton met Thursday with Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr and Iron Range Resources Commissioner Tony Sertich, and they decided to push the discussion back until a special meeting in October, Dayton spokeswoman Katie Tinucci said.
What a stupid law, and how is this even Constitutional? The landowners own the minerals and the Rights to it, NOT the STATE. And as such should be awarded any royalties the owners see fit to receive, if the owners want 90% then they get 90%. I hope these landowners fight tooth and nail to get their due. It is theirs, nothing less nothing more.
This law needs to be repealed. Maybe the landowners can get together and seek counsel in regards to getting this UNCONSTITUTIONAL law repealed.
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Rosalind_Swenson
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Posted on: Sep. 06 2011,8:37 am |
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Eminent domain. It's crap and has been going on for ages. Here's a google page link on it. I didn't want to put any one source on the board since it seems nobody here can agree on what news source to trust! http://www.google.com/search?...+domain
I agree, it's an unbelievable thing to have happen in America, and it shouldn't happen. People have been fighting it for years. Unsuccessfully.
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Grinning_Dragon
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Posted on: Sep. 07 2011,9:39 am |
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(hymiebravo @ Sep. 07 2011,8:00 am)
QUOTE It looks like Isabella is located within the Superior National Forest: QUOTE In June 2008, legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to sell 6,700 acres (27 km2) of land in the forest to a mining company; the company wants the land to mine deposits of "copper, nickel, platinum and palladium".[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_National_Forest
Ok, but what does this have to do with private property?
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*SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS / MOLON LABE / Se Defendendo
memoria of cado frater ,Semper fidelis
*The object of war is NOT to DIE for YOUR Country, but to make the OTHER BASTARD DIE for HIS...Patton
My Constitutional Rights trump your dead.
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Posted on: Sep. 07 2011,10:30 am |
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So if I was on my land, and I was "shooting at some food" and struck oil, it wouldn't be mine?
Well, I guess I might as well scratch "Dig a silver mine in the backyard" off my bucket list.
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hymiebravo
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Posted on: Sep. 08 2011,8:02 am |
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I was just trying to flesh out a bit more detail. That little snippet was extremely vague.
It had me wondering if the law wasn't an old law dating back to the steel mines or something.
It's not always a bad thing when a government entity wants to purchase land from you. There are plenty of examples in the immediate area where people have made out quite well selling land in that manner.
There was a furniture store in Austin that made out real nicely because of a Mower County purchase their "business". They probably wouldn't have been able to negotiate a similar deal otherwise.
In Freeborn County I wonder what sort of deal the people who owned the land behind Love's got for that government sponsored purchase.
Or the so called spec building purchase as well.
Sure that again isn't that closely related to the mining story. But I'm merely pointing out that some people make out nicely in government sponsored purchases.
And again what a vague little snippet that was.
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Posted on: Sep. 08 2011,8:34 am |
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Yeah, but what if you don't want to sell. The  State can just call emminent domain and take it anyway. That is bull Sh!t IMO.
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