Court lands on the side of preserving farmland in Bailey case – Ohio Ag Net ocj.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ocj.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Ohio Third District Court of Appeals is blocking construction of a natural gas pipeline on Union County farmland preserved with agricultural easements.
Battle for protecting preserved farmland won (sort of, for now) – Ohio Ag Net ocj.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ocj.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Don Bailey, Successor Trustee to Arno L. Renner, Charles Renner and Patrick and Whitney Bailey, successor landowners and operators of lands preserved by the Arno L. Renner Trust and over which Arno Renner donated an Agricultural Easement to the Ohio Department of Agriculture in 2003 filed the lawsuits in Union County Common Pleas Court.
The lawsuits:
1) ask for a writ of mandamus to the ODA, the holder of the Ag Easement, to enforce its terms, and 2) seek injunctive relief and a declaratory judgment against Columbia Gas of Ohio who seeks to acquire commercial gas pipeline easements to construct the Marysville Connector.