New Lawsuits Filed in FM Diversion Project
New Lawsuits Filed for water impacts that reach beyond FM Diversion Project.
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Quick Take Eminent Domain ND Supreme Court Vacates Cass County Diversion Case
North Dakota Supreme Court orders Cass County to vacate Quick Take Eminent Domain case intended to “evade” evade ND law protecting landowners.
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Aaland Law Defends Landowners Rights in Quick Take Eminent Domain
North Dakota Century Code: (CCJWRD) A district may not include or utilize any reference to quick take eminent domain during negotiations to acquire the necessary easement for a right of way. Not only did land agent Lisa Kilde direct the Sauvageau’s to the quick take timeline in her letter and offer to purchase of February 1, 2021, she repeated the direction in every email she sent.
Continue ReadingND Supreme Court Decision Observes Landowner Rights
There is no doubt that landowners can successfully fight and prevail against the CCJWRD’s willingness to trample on the well established property rights of landowners being injured by CCJWRD’s unrelenting misuse of government power to do the bidding of the Fargo Flood Diversion Project.
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ND Lawmakers Should Ignore Fargo Demands for Dam and Diversion Funding
The FMDA talking heads recite their script about FEMA Flood Insurance costing thousands per year without the FMDA project, yet the average price in Fargo, ND – $618.14 as of November 30, 2020. The most insane part is Fargo and Cass county encouraging growth into areas flooded in 2009.
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Local Lawyer Defending Property Owners in FMDA Shakedown
Fargo, ND: FMDA facing new legal challenges from property owners over property rights, easements and acquisitions. The proposed easement unfairly protects the Cass County Joint Water Resource District by transferring all risk to [PROPERTY OWNER].
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Curt Bjertness, CW Valley Coop Manager Cites Several Concerns of Fargo Dam and Diversion “Plan B”
Fargo’s dam and diversion has major negative economic impacts: The negative impact Plan B will have on C-W Valley Co-op is more than our physical locations. We see the potential damage this plan will have on C-W Valley Co-op and the risk it will place on the continued existence and success of the business.
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Fargo Diversion Corruption
There is no “federal project”. This is a local project encumbered by states rights issue, wherein, Fargo, ND wants to push its water problems onto Minnesota and MN said “NO”.
Continue ReadingNarcissistic Negotiations
Isn’t it perverse that the natural flood plain land being protected is valued higher than the non-flood plain land being taken to protect it?
Continue ReadingFEMA Flood Insurance, Fargo, Cass and the USACE
How can homes that were surrounded by flood waters in 1997 and 2009 be considered new impacts if project alignment is moved north?
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