{"id":26278,"date":"2019-05-13T12:35:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26278"},"modified":"2019-06-20T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:06:15","slug":"eminent-domain-bill-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26278","title":{"rendered":"Eminent domain bill approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Landowners have the ability to contest the use of eminent domain by renewable energy developers under a bill passed May 13.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20126\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20126\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20126\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479302990&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;98&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senbrewer_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tom Brewer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tom Brewer&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20126\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Tom Brewer\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenBrewer_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Tom Brewer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As introduced by Gordon Sen. Tom Brewer, LB155 would have prohibited a private entity from using eminent domain to provide access to build transmission lines or other infrastructure related to a privately developed wind energy project.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, state law authorizes the use of eminent domain in those situations because it is considered a public use.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was amended on general file to define the public use aspect of such exercise of eminent domain as a \u201crebuttable presumption\u201d\u2014meaning that it may be challenged in court by an impacted landowner.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed LB155 on a 44-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landowners have the ability to contest the use of eminent domain by renewable energy developers under a bill passed May 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[174],"class_list":["post-26278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-tom-brewer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26281,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26278\/revisions\/26281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}