'You're Taking Missourians' Land From Them': Josh Hawley Explodes At Clean Energy Executive

[@bobswalley3756]

Wish we had more representatives like Josh in this country

[@jackiepowell7513]

Too many d u m b populace for that!

[@walleyperch]

No thanks…

[@SanjuanitaCruz]

Traitors? No

[@karenmyers995]

I agree. Hawley is the best.

[@dragani2330]

If you see some power lines, cut them down. Who needs electricity. Same with roads. 😂

[@scottcartwright9008]

THE FARMERS SHOULD SUE THE CORPORATION AND GET THEIR LAND BACK..THIS IS CORRUPT

[@RawOlympia]

AMEN

[@naytewilson]

They can’t sue for something stupid like that.

[@scottcartwright9008]

@@naytewilson it's not stupid

[@cisco95021]

Do not allow farming lands to be taken by corporations for profit.

[@loreicmaster]

Thier personal profit is more important than the loss of missouri residence, Gitmo them all is the answer.

[@disturbmeforarthunter947]

Amazing how Josh Hawley talks big and puts them on the spot when in the end all that we watched was a tongue lashing while the land still gets taken over and the small people are attacked and left with nothing. Republicans are a complete joke. A ll they have are harsh words while Dems destroy America. Josh Hawley is full of hot air and no power.

[@walterputerko8132]

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[@walterputerko8132]

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[@Davmartin-kp1yq]

@@loreicmasterdamn right

[@JPKatz123]

Hawley... great job. Clear. Pointed. No dramatic back and forths. Great job!

[@CountryFenderBass]

The closest to a farm she ever got was looking out an airplane window

[@Steve-lx4wv]

She is a paid liar

[@shannysunshine8389]

It’s all about stealing farmers land!

[@disturbmeforarthunter947]

That showed them.

[@MsElke11]

Only the ELITES are allowed to spew their carbon

[@jmjjim819]

wrong, documents pictures

[@georgeannrutkowski2740]

Mr Hawley, Stand strong for We The People. America needs you 🇺🇸

[@Ralph_Smith0724]

*Eminent domain refers to the power of the government to take private property and convert it into public use. The Fifth Amendment provides that the government may only exercise this power if they provide just compensation to the property owners. But this is a private corporation. They cannot use eminent domain to seize the land of these farmers.*

[@limited.visibility]

Eminent Domain, Hawaii

[@AshiStarshade]

And they do not. Senator Hawley is misrepresenting the situation.

[@krautyvonlederhosen]

Oh but they can when the energy czar says that this project will provide diversity and inclusion.

[@adrienneanderson-smith2257]

Oh, they do. I have been told of & seeing them doing it here. My mum’s 2 acres is now ~1.68. Families’ summer cabins that became homes for generations, inheritance; were grabbed and claimed by city & county. They were DESTROYED to widen a road. Thank you for the correct spelling 😉

[@lynnmarie2962]

​@@AshiStarshadeunder the joey briben regime, they get away with a lot of unconstitutional shenanigans.

[@maryannoneill297]

So glad someone is starting to stand up for the farmers.

[@stilldajoker]

Born and raised in Indy and have many friends and family still there. I would stand with all Missourians on this. Greedy corporations that are trying to use illegal actions to advance their agenda must be stopped. Indy can find another solution other than this obvious land grab that cannot be legal.

[@AvalonDreamz]

Indy resident here as well and myself and many others AGREE!

[@Starli7777]

No do not allow this hawley. She has no right

[@annep.1905]

@@Starli7777 He can't stop it alone. Elect men in Indiana and Kansas and Missouri who will stop this company, and take every penny from them and give it back to farmers.

[@missf4681]

This is part of the WEFs plans to get rid of all small private farms. This is disgusting .

[@rickkeys2345]

Does anybody wonder where this company is going to get the electricity" that they're going to send through these transmission lines how are they going to generate this juice?(Jus sayin) I am quite sure there is wind and solar in the originating State and the end of line state. WTF

[@lyndakempland4559]

Ferguson Missouri resident here. Stop them Senator!!! STOP THEM!!!

[@user-pm4nu4mk3z]

Since when is a corporation allowed to use "eminent domain"? Since never!

[@dwightcurrie8316]

That's been going on for a while. The 1980s I think

[@jeffdawson6174]

My house is about to be plowed domto eminent domain

[@mikerieck306]

Wasn't SCOTUS involved with this domain issue a few years back.@@jeffdawson6174

[@rsacchi100]

@@jeffdawson6174 I'm sorry for you. I take it their compensation is inadequate.

[@rwsscott]

Who do you think provides your electricity and gas? How do you think it arrived at your home? Spoiler: it's not the government and it didn't arrive because your neighbors said, "sure dig up my lawn."

[@vickilockeby3172]

Happening all over the US…look into Maui Senator!!!! I truly truly truly love you Sir!!! You love your state and it shows!!! Sending blessings from Illinois!!!! We love the Show Me State!!! God Bless you Sir

[@rogercarroll8764]

Here's a thought: how about each state generate their own power and not rely on other states for electricity? No corporation should have the power of emminent domain. No corporation should have the right to own ANY land.

[@davej7458]

That would be a real problem for the state of California. They don't want power plants,they don't want water storage. They have to get power and water from somebody else. They have to get those things from someplace else.

[@Winstn2331]

Generate the system. We figure that out. We live in the country. Come to my front porch.😊

[@pensacolawatchdog]

I second that! 🙏❤️🇺🇸💎😊

[@AshiStarshade]

No corporation does have that power. It's only a government entity that has that power. And emminent domain requires compensation, it's not simply "taking".

[@iriswilner901]

Well, that wouldn’t work either you should not be able to take peoples private land. You need to find a way to generate and work where people can keep their own property.

[@thecityman1910]

I've been a City Manager for 28 years and one of the absolute worst things I have to do is eminent domain cases. They go against everything I believe and I promise I've fought very, very hard to avoid taking land and have only had to do it a handful of times. But those cases were all situations done by local government for the absolute and direct benefit of the community, and we still paid far more than the land we took. Still, I hold my nose when we have to do it. But for a private company is given this power and there is no direct benefit to the communities in which land is being taken, that is about as unAmerican as it gets. This should absolutely not be allowed and I hope those land-owners get good representation and fight this and win. I am sure there are other ways to get this done. Most people will sell their land at SOME PRICE, so the company should have to just pony up whatever it takes. The few people who just don't want to sell at any price should have that right, and the company should just have to go around them. Yes, I understand the enormous costs of changing direction of a high voltage transmission line and what it takes to "{go around". But they will pass those costs on to customers anyway. I know there are some cases where eminent domain is just a necessity- I've been part of it- but this doesn't feel like one of them, and private, for profit companies should never be given that power.

[@tbfsa]

So, basically, if i buy a house, land, even a business, that is my private property, I only have possession of it due to the graciousness of government. As soon as they decide that "others" will benefit more from my property than I will, they simply come in and take it. My friend, that is communism, pure and simple and a representative republic such as ours should strip these powers from any level of government period. By the way, have you ever seen a case of a government person getting their property taken in this manner? I didn't think so.

[@A.Crowley_55]

I'm glad to see someone stand up for us instead of just letting them keep taking. Thank you Sir

[@mifnp8887]

Josh Hawley ROCKS!! ❤

[@bobbarker3781]

How does a corporation get the power to take someone's land? Time for a hard reset

[@brianw612]

It's been going on forever, look at all those high voltage line ways running all over America. You might still own it, but you are denied nearly all non agricultural usage.

[@shimathefox7149]

They give bullshit financial incentive then they sue for way more than even the company is worth.

[@Sammysgrl22]

This should be on the front page of every major newspaper and every national news channel's top story. This is the stuff of nightmares. I don't think I could ever get over the seething anger of having this happen to my family. That's saying a lot because I had to go to court yesterday to fight with my late husband's ex-wife who was trying to take over my husband's remains and have him buried out of state, and I have forgiven her. She even applied to receive mine and my daughter's survivor's benefits, and I forgave her of those too, but taking someone's land? NO!!!!!

[@nateborie6329]

Ladies and gentlemen, here we have a perfect example of what is happening in the show Yellowstone. Greedy corporations from New York and other big city states that think they have the right to take away the lands that farmers and ranchers have lived on for generations.

[@jackiepowell7513]

Ted turner owns Montana ugh

[@thedude4682]

They, apparently, also think that they can leave open borders but not have to take any immigrants.

[@denisecrookshanks3892]

exactly what the pipelines do!!!!!!!!

[@msdesiraecannonministerfor6921]

Usa citizens are awake and watching

[@terrikrucina2023]

​@@jackiepowell7513Okra owns Maui.

[@starrystarrynight6281]

Unbelievable...

[@suzannechamberslynch904]

A private corporation should not have the authority to use imminent domain to grab land from a private citizen. I am curious as to which lawmakers signed this BS into law.

[@shera4376]

Bden

[@tommyjohnson4637]

My thoughts as well...

[@SmokavitchWitherspoon]

Figures biden would do this.. after all, he's shown time and time again... always go against Americans

[@rogerfranklin754]

In the good old days there would be blood flowing in the streets because ranchers and Farmers would be protecting what is rightfully theirs and has been in the family for Generations!

[@andrewgalbraith1858]

Until SCOTUS reverses Kelo v. City of New London, this is sadly legal.

[@shawn33mari3]

Americans need to rise up against this.

[@rebeccaterrell1471]

Thank you Mr. Hawley. Protect your people. No seizures!!

[@ScottyKirk1]

Drove past a wind farm in north Texas a few months back, and only maybe a third of about 50 of the huge windmills were actually turning.... And it looked hideous on top of that.

[@johoyt3484]

Keep your powerlines on federal and state land.

[@Jaja01915]

No more Maui's....

[@Stevexnycautomotive]

When the American losers are using federal power it they have no power(no constitution).

[@franciskirby85]

This is all part of the agenda by the wef and they plan on starving most of us in the near future they are taking the farms all over the world.

[@USAF_MSgt_retired]

This man impresses me with how elegant and how spoken he is.

[@garthmorgan1232]

Why can’t congress rewrite the eminent domain laws to prevent this very type of greedy grab

[@petergomez6991]

Someone's getting a kickback

[@kimkulesa3041]

@@petergomez6991 - ABSOLUTELY. It's more than one person and big money. Time to go back to the Supreme Court because this is going to continue and is going to get worse, Eminent Domain was used under extreme circumstances and I believe only the Government had the authority to do that. It is going to be used now a lot, not like in the past. The United States of Corruption, that's what we've become.

[@jackiepowell7513]

Get commies out first

[@seahagkeylover]

They CAN but will they...nope

[@kimberlylatour4402]

Eminent Domain is in the constitution, it may require an amendment to change it.

[@sharonhare2453]

Tell her No! Mr. Hawley

[@mickiewilbanks6102]

Fight this Josh. If you allow this to happen, it will happen all across the country.

[@TRUMPFORPRESIDENTSAVEAMERICA]

Why are "WE THE PEOPLE" INCLUDING THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI NOT RISING UP TO STOP THIS LUNACY ???

[@LyndaReilly]

Do you want your electricity to go out in January and then have to wait maybe a month or so to get it back? I live in FL, when the electricity goes out due to a hurricane, we have it back in about a week. They are not stealing your land. You are part of the USA, this is part of a better infrastructure that REPBULICANS NEVER VOTE ON AND THEN TAKE CREDIT FOR, DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH, PETE BUTTIGIEG'S MOUTH???

[@susandamon9848]

Seriously. Like she has no clue to how much they’ll be making off the landholders?! Yeah, right. “I’ll have to get back to you on that.” BS!!! They should NOT have that power to take THEIR land. Period!!!

[@RawOlympia]

who is it? I see all these not too bright types in high positions lately

[@martinkelly3724]

How much are they giving to the authorities allowing this landgrab? I smell something evil

[@rhondafenner1893]

Yes, It's Called The Great Reset & Agenda 2030!!

[@dustyrose-tr3cs]

I love this senator

[@JohnDeWeese-lq4pf]

Under a Communist State, Corporations work FOR the State, not the people in the state. "Imminent Domain" is NOT given to Corporations for use under our Constitution. The lady needs to read and understand our Constitution. Where's the ACLU on this? Farmers have civil rights. Corporations DON'T!

[@shera4376]

You need to go help these people save thier land

[@maxgarbani6644]

Jajaja jajajajaja ! ACLU ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 You are talking about a marxist organization.

[@jackjines3461]

ACLU? No doubt been bought and paid for like every other agency/entity/group in America.

[@pattyconley4096]

Here in Indiana where I live we are fighting to keep our prime farmland from having huge solar fields put up! Why always the farmland???? We have a food shortage that will get much worse very soon and they want our farmland! It's just evil!

[@sboyle7884]

I live in NJ. We have farms with electric lines passing thru fields with horses and cows grazing below them. Easement were created so farmers kept their land but they can't put a permanent structure within the easement. But no nongovernment, for profit corp should be able to take land. SCOTUS made a very bad decision about 15 yrs ago when they allows a neighborhood to be destroyed so they could build a mall. The neighborhhod was leveled but I believe the mall has still not been built. People who had lived there 40 and 50 years lost their homes. For what?

[@georgemurphy2579]

Moreover, the construction of new malls is superfluous, especially given the fact that many malls have, and continue to close throughout the nation. Remember that they were constructed in the late 1960s and impacted the small shop owners in surrounding towns, later on only to become hangouts for teenage elements of society. Now, well, they're a thing of the past.

[@dannylinc6247]

I just went to our malls looking for someone to help with a device hardware issue. Every mall had a bunch of stores that are closed up and boarded up. Even the newest ones. The plan-demic has put them all out of being in business and people stopped going to them. I finally found a guy by a food court who helped with device hardware. He didn't speak English and could only repeat my words back to me. No, you can't solve the problem, you can't send it back. Call them after you replace it. Try getting your documents and data on your new device. He just repeated me saying that and told me nothing. If he had a SIM of that type and it's unlock pin, we could try using it and then swapping SIM back. He no have. Solly. I went and bought a cheap one at a large discount food and houseware and drug chain store. They didn't know anything, but let me use their phone to do it for myself. I passed several mall type places and most of the store fronts were boarded up. Even the new ones. All those people are out of work or have gone to work elsewhere. I can't seem to find many people who will admit they voted for this regime. They must all be staying in their houses and having everything delivered?

[@SopranoPizzaJMFNJ]

I'm in NNJ. These ideas are dangerous and pure Bullshit. Leave the farmers TF alone!

[@RawOlympia]

That's terrible! It's like our old growth being given for pennies to China only to rot on their docks!

[@nicoleb3636]

We need more like Sen Josh Hawley across the country!

[@jameshenson4089]

This man will be president someday

[@jarrettclopton5881]

I agree. I’m sad to have Mark Kelly here in Arizona. Ugh.

[@Gwenpool2369]

id prefer someone who actually lives in missouri

[@paulrapp6]

Lady, take your lit up lights and shove it. You know where. Community engagement means telling an auditorium full of farmers that next week they can start collecting welfare. I always thought eminent domain was a privilege of the state. And one to be exercised with the utmost restraint.

[@sultanabran1]

shove it up... front or back?

[@JohnFourtyTwo]

It’s the state’s guaranteed revenue insurer. Walmart, big box stores, and real estate developers owe much of their wealth to imminent domain. Uncooperative landowners refuse to sell to these companies, so the companies go to these local governments with their plans which includes all the tax revenue. The property owners get slapped with imminent domain, get paid a fraction of what their property is worth and the rest is history and happens all the time.

[@jonnid3122]

Lies and theft. Who do you think the source of that is? It truly is a fallen world, but still round. It's just going to get worse. Ya'll better store up some lasting treasures in Heaven because you got corrupt politicians, big corporations, illegals, phoney churches, and alien space demons all closing in.

[@missf4681]

​@@JohnFourtyTwouss is turning into a corrupt communist country

[@GLADASP]

Josh you are simply the Best 🙂God Bless You 👍

[@lynnmcintosh]

This breaks my heart- I hate eminent domain in all forms and this should be voted on by both houses before it is allowed to go one step further! He is right, these farmers have spent generations on their land. I think an attorney should stand in the doorway for these folks and demand a very fair monthly rent for the easement, if they try using these people -that way. It is defendable for the property owner to fight in court.

[@AshiStarshade]

They probably are already offered a fair amount for the land and probably just don't want it. I don't blame them for wanting to stay where they live and how they live.

[@lynnmarie2962]

We need to grow our own food here and stop depending on China for food. As we have seen in Africa, cutting off food transportation to starve the opposition, has been used as a weapin of war, without having to invade.

[@memcc8663]

@@lynnmarie2962 they are trying to do that by taking land here and also by spraying our skies so that things don't grow right. Don't be naive... our own government is already at war with us. They are in the process of culling and controlling as we "speak."

[@missf4681]

Well china owns alot of American farm land as well as food processing plants that should scare everyone. What's to stop them from cutting the food supply or poisoning it for that matter

[@lynnmarie2962]

@@missf4681 we need to take it back, via IMMINENT DOMAIN.

[@gdunlap4006]

We, in MO, have told them NO about 20 times and they keep pushing it. They move it around and try some other route all over the state.

[@mollyswanner1607]

Mr. Hawley please don't let her do this

[@JustPleinBilly]

No leave Missouri alone. Thank you Josh and god bless you.

[@_Kiii]

Josh is 1000% right!!!

[@jjhh8425]

Actually, he's being very generous. The power company is making money from this. They need to pay 2 times what it costs the farmer, how much he would make from the same acre of land, that he would make from the income of the land. When a person breaks up the farm land, it makes it extremely difficult to work this same land, and even until now, nobody can prove, that these power lines do not cause harm, and health issues. There are massive magnetic fields around each of these lines. Or give each of these farmers free electricity and 1 times the value of income from each acre of land they take.

[@FrancesJohnson-hj9hn]

❤️

[@FrancesJohnson-hj9hn]

❤️was for 1,000 Josh

[@jonathancampbell586]

Yes!

[@hatchetjack1031]

How can private corporations claim eminent domain?

[@PamLumpkinLoving]

Keep fighting senator! Put lines along highway not through the land. It might cost more but farmers can keep land!

[@grega2362]

Who do you think owns the land next to the highway? The highway was built with ED, there is a offset but not nearly enough to run a high tension line. More states need to pass non ED amendments. ED ONLY in the case of public use. Not public good, or any other BS that is arbitrary.

[@kathrynleaser5093]

Great idea!

[@brandonsheffield9873]

I have seen the consequences of High power transmission lines on private property. It splits their land, and they have not been able to sell any of the land because no one want these towers and power lines in their back yards. Over 30 years, these land owners have had for sale signs up. They had usable 10+ Acres before, but after they were left with just several Acres that were split into small inaccessible plots of land. I really do feel for these farmers. What should happen is for every acre seized, they add it back onto another area of the farm or just build the towers over the road ways like an archway plenty of space for that type of structure.

[@kathrynleaser5093]

The electromagnetic consequences from these power lines are toxic to humans and animals as well. Cancer and other issues arise from them.

[@suzzyq]

These meeting dont acomplish anything all it is talk.......talky talky talk...waste of taxpayers money to keep lights on waste of time and space

[@mightyhearts1376]

This is outright theft! Who in the hell do they think they are! This is progress for whom! $$$

[@debrabrooks6331]

Wow. I'm from Missouri. How can this happen. What can be done to stop this. My grandparents were farmers

[@Gadsdenflag]

A Tyrannical government that’s how. We the people control the government and everyone seems to have forgotten that. If we don’t like it then we don’t allow it. Tyranny has been defeated before it’s not unstoppable.

[@carollunsford355]

Thank you Senator Hawley !! I agree with you !!

[@veryconcerned9375]

How about the necessity for the crops the farmers raise for food?

[@franciskirby85]

That's why they really want the land so we have no food they probably work for the wef.

[@2fercarol]

You know they are gonna lie when they say " thanks for the question".

[@brianbyrne2518]

Even that is a lie, she don't want to talk too Hawley!!

[@NaplesMom239]

Love Josh 💪🏼❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸

[@yepyep340]

He runs fast! yep

[@tedk2814]

Listening to her first answer reminded me of Mayorkas answering a senate hearing question. going on and on about how much they care and what they've done but never answering the question. Same corporate word salad crap! I love the way Mr Hawley admonishes her company to do the right thing, don't lie and steal. I just wonder how much people like her get paid to take the low road, over and over again.

[@FriendofBill-2005]

Question: "How will Missourians benefit from this landgrab". Answer: "Well we have done an inordinate amount of community engagement". Question: Your message is "give us your land or we'll take it from you" Answer: "Well that's not the message we are trying to send". Good lord. She doesn't answer a single question honestly.

[@joetriolo9161]

She doesn't have to, if what the senator says is true that this has already been approved. Her defense is very weak but it eats up his time. The Betsy DeVos method of saying absolutely nothing and walking away unscathed.

[@highchairman6428]

Evil never admits it's truths. But it subtly hints it has been done and there's nothing that can be done.

[@RawOlympia]

noting they say benefits anyone ... look at the border, the pipeline, the overall lowering of the USA IQ

[@jeffwebb-eb5hg]

There's NO BENEFITS worth giving up your land

[@katm4841]

Thank you senator!

[@garydanielson7787]

That’s the message I’m hearing!! Simple Land Grab

[@tanyajanvier4538]

I like how this man stands up for people!!:)

[@davidgoodnow269]

Couldn't they have buried the power lines and left the farmers their land?

[@americanace96]

They could, but that costs a lot of money. How elese are stockholders suppose to buy their 8th summer home?

[@lararabb8888]

Burying lines would not solve the problem. You can not farm over buried objects 4 sure. It would be too costly & cause even more environmental damage.

[@davidgoodnow269]

@@lararabb8888 Totally false and unreasonable, too! Around here, most farming is "dry land" and irrigation is used to insure at least a certain minimum amount of crop survives. In recent years, surface "wheel" irrigation has been replaced by subsurface irrigation, which is more expensive to install but much more efficient and lowers maintenance costs, too.

[@Gadsdenflag]

How about they can pay 1000x the value of the land and buy it outright or they can rent it for 40% of their profits indefinitely.

[@anthonybasile6079]

Actually no, those HV lines can't really be buried in any practical way due to the underlying physics.

[@maryferrari3390]

Thank you Josh Hawley for you calling them out!

[@toddoplt5929]

I don't think that anyone should have the power to take any land from anyone

[@valentinasylvester4709]

Another great job Senator!!!! 👏👏👏👏

[@bennieshull5555]

Keep your power lines off of Missouri land. Connie Shull

[@charleskostedt710]

Action speak louder than words

[@RobertWood-on9qc]

It is illegal for a private entity to use eminent domain, this is only for government use.

[@tammymiller7236]

Keep Fighting Josh

[@Kelli5555]

Good job Josh!

[@decemberbaby9549]

Thank God for men like Josh Hawley. We need more leaders like him & less opportunist.

[@SS-sd3pj]

Land grab. Leave the people's land alone. Run your wires away from private land.

[@rhondamyers4936]

Why don’t you have the governor of Missouri place a law against this land grab. The governor can talk to the farmers it would effect. Why can’t the company use the land splitting the land in half of the border states ? With a monthly or yearly lease . Not selling the energy company the land but leasing it?

[@andersus442]

American people we need to stand together and stop all this. No one should decide they are just going to take anyone’s land

[@inhiscare1]

Thank you for exposing this evil! Get rid of her!

[@msmbrady6513]

This is evil plain and simple.

[@williamsmith5521]

Well done

[@oldgloryhillfarmturtlewoma9132]

I love how they’re going to communicate with the community. Not agree with what the farmers/landowners want or don’t want. Big difference. And as soon as the word “nationally” popped out, you know it’s a government supported scam. It’s all about the money!

[@aloysiusdevanderabercrombi470]

​@strangerdanger4167and they did.

[@jonathancampbell586]

Our farmers Matter-- Thank You, Sen. Hawley!

[@davef.2329]

Notice that the projects have the descriptors "tiger," and "belt" in them. Any bells of familiarity ring with those?

[@karlanderson9503]

Just a tad chinese perhaps/just like joe calling out dog faced pony soldier

[@bryanmaxwell7332]

Man fellow KZbinr’s….I hope Josh runs for president ASAP…We need him soooooo bad..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@denisgirard7467]

I love Hawley. On spot.

[@sandyward247]

It scares me to think that no consideration is given to the landowners.

[@ramonalvarez7594]

Why do they have to go across states? What's their objective by crossing states? Can't there be a different source of supply? I believe emminent domain means we're gonna screw the little guy for our profit.

[@highchairman6428]

Top be fair, strategy wise, it's a lot easier to cut directly from Point A to Point B. So what if there's people's homes? Take the land, so it's quick, cheap, easy to do. Going around is expensive! Detours are expensive! Think cost efficient. It's easy to intimidate people off their homes, than it is to spend millions to billions to go around. Think cost-efficient, discard morality.

[@tonypace2009]

Green new deal . They wont build new powerplants and thier wind and solar isnt working very well for them. So now they are going to over burden preexisting power plants so the can save face to the climate change agenda . Or to put simply they are ego driven idiots with more power then they should have.

[@shera4376]

They have satilite....why the need for lines????

[@Gadsdenflag]

Intimate domain is a fancy word for tyranny. The government doesn’t have any authority to do anything we don’t allow. People really need to wake up.

[@chrisstutts9053]

All that corportation has done for MO and KS is raise our energy rates!!!

[@Oldman5261]

Why can’t the state with the city that needs the electricity create their own source of power? I am assuming that the city in question is Indianapolis, Indiana.

[@glennrishton5679]

Not always so practical given the cost and the environmentalist resistance to new power plants being built. The cost is astronomical and would still require transmission lines intrastate so that does not remove the objection of this video. Also fuel, given that nuclear would be virtually impossible to build and absurdly costly that leaves coal or gas. I cant see Bidens administration approving a coal fired plant. So gas it must be. How to get the gas to the plant if there are no waterways or local production?

[@waynekolvoord968]

@@glennrishton5679 Indiana has many many water ways and could easily have 3 or 4 nuclear power plants, and the objection is taking land away by force that the corporation has no right to. Nuclear power is the cheapest and cleanest form of energy, never going to happen under Biden. Interstate 69 and 74 run both directions in the state would be easy to use the land the state already owns.

[@RuthieGottman-wq5oz]

I hope Missourians keep fighting against this! 😠

[@123cranford]

If you’ve ever stood under one if these power lines you can feel the electricity. I can’t imagine how farmers will handle it.

[@RawOlympia]

it gives headaches and is bad for cows

[@LeopardAppaloosa755]

Corporations should not be able to use eminent domain laws to get what they want. They should have to pay market rate - just like everyone else - for what they want. A company wants 20 acres of a guy's farmland - let them pay whatever he is willing to sell that land for. Anything else is theft, plain and simple.

[@AvalonDreamz]

HOW CAN A CORPORATION IMPOSE EMMINENT DOMAIN? How is that even legal? We really are as Americans going to sit and allow these scumbags to steal land that doesn't belong to them? WAKE UP AMERICA

[@vihtoripuurola3775]

We need a guy like this for Washington state.

[@chrisjames8540]

what about the health risks involved with living in and around high voltage lines?

[@lee58901]

This is crazy I hope Hawley sues these guys. Btw heard ZERO benefit for Missouri farmers from that woman.

[@Kelli5555]

Corporate greed at its finest

[@kennethcooper9152]

But did you give back the land to these farmers? That’s the bottom line

[@Booklady444]

Never take land from farmers. Humans can live without lights but cannot live without food.

[@fordtuff2600]

Sure didn't work well for indigenous people ...

[@johndoe-xy4xq]

These kind of people make me sick. Just come in and take their land.

[@genelegate1308]

The problem is cities that are growing need more electricity yet they don’t want generators where they can see them, which requires the power plants to built in the middle of nowhere and miles of transmission lines (which nobody wants to see either) bringing the energy in.

[@realityadvised2543]

No it isn't. They've had energy since 100 years

[@TheMatrixIsReal.]

Build the power plant in Indiana. Duh

[@stevdaughtr6098]

They have no interest in putting more power on. We just have certain individuals who have huge investments in electric. They don’t have the right to put it on peoples property. They don’t get to decide to seize the property. They want people to eat bugs it has nothing to do with having enough power.

[@paulkern2544]

All for the blue cities!

[@jmaiatrader2925]

If the private electric corporation wants to use the land let them pay for it in form of land rental!

[@mikehannan8932]

Put a wind turbine and solar farm on Rehobeth Beach. Right next to Bribe'ems ocean front vacation home.

[@diannevaldez8670]

"Community engagement"? Not community involvement? Actually either way it will never matter because what we, the little people, think or want or dont want "they" will still do what "they" want, what "they" plan. That is how it works in my community and everywhere.

[@miawarren8735]

We need to vote out Biden and his administration. I thought only the government could take priority, after offering you some money, not these big corporations.

[@glennrishton5679]

For about 30 or so years big companies and developers working with local governments have been allowed to use eminent domain to seize land, force the sale of land to go to developers and corporations. That was approved by the Supreme Court. The idea behind it besides corruption and kickbacks is that the new use for the land brings more tax revenue for the city and state. I do not know of Senator Hawley was referring to that when he talked of this company taking land.

[@AqueousLion]

Republicans are the ones pushing this "corporate companies are people." Which gives them more power than you would think. How else is the "trickle down" supposed to work?

[@Gadsdenflag]

It’s not just Biden my friend don’t let the red or blue colors fool you they are all on the same team and we ain’t on that team.

[@carlwegener7544]

We need to impeach

[@RawOlympia]

they just want to do whatever they want, power mad. Ugly stuff.

[@michellekirkman2694]

"I'll get back with you." Seems to be the popular phrase when being questioned

[@troyfrei2962]

why did power company's did not develop real high voltage power lines in the 1960? because of leukemia cancer.

[@guysumpthin2974]

Very high rates within 1/4 mile each side of the lines , so a 1/2 mile path is useless

[@hegeliandetective1034]

Right! Devalues the land and part of that is that it's known to harmfully affect all living flora and fauna within the area.

[@mikeyarrington18]

How much money do these judges receive for stealing the farmlands for these corporations? Are there any questions like this being asked?