A fight over a utility’s use of eminent domain to grab farmland in Nebraska is growing larger.
It pits the Nebraska Public Power District against some eastern Nebraska farmers over the district’s proposed transmission line meant to help a crypto-mining operation. Sound familiar? It’s similar to a recent case where some farmers near Enid challenged the site of a transmission line and sued.
Nebraska ratepayers are paying for most of the $20 million project which has a primary design of supplying the huge demand for electricity from one big customer, Jigowatt, a bitcoin mining company.
Four farming families have challenged the amount offered in the eminent domain used in taking their land.
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