EPA to property owner: ‘Your land is our land’

Filed under:General — posted by Jack on 9/24/2011 @ 6:55 pm

$40 million in EPA fines pending over plan to build new home

“Just imagine. You want to build a home, so you buy a $23,000 piece of land in a residential subdivision in your hometown and get started. The government then tells you to stop, threatens you with $40 million in fines and is not kidding.

That’s the case now before the U.S. Supreme Court, with briefs being filed today by the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of a Priest Lake, Idaho, family, Chantell and Mike Sackett.

Attorney Damien Schiff: “The regime we have operating now allows the EPA to take property without having to pay for it, or giving the owners the right to their day in court.””

The organization has prepared a video to explain the case:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=348077#ixzz1YuvRHdV0

full article:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=348077

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