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Letters to the Editor: TVA should look elsewhere for land
The Tennessean
Published: Wednesday, 5/10/2006
TVA should look elsewhere for land
To the Editor:
I just finished the TVA article about plans to take a large area of farmland to build a substation. ("Power plan jolts rural area," May 6)
I am totally appalled by this. Not only are they taking away farmland that has been in families up to four generations with no regard whatsoever to those living and making a life there. They feel they have the right to come in and say, "Sell to us, or we'll condemn and get the property anyway." That is a shameful thing for TVA to do, just shameful.
This isn't some area that has been out of service for years and no one wants. This is some of the most beautiful farmland that Tennessee has to offer and it also serves many different people in many ways. So they wouldn't just be "putting out" the families, they would be affecting all those who are serviced by these farms. I for one, buy hay from the Scotts and have been out to their farm many a time. It is beautiful, so beautiful in fact that my husband would love to have just 10 acres for us to live on, but you don't see us saying, "Sell or we'll condemn your property."
I hope someone from TVA reads this letter and finds some commercial property that hasn't been used in years, I'm sure there is something somewhere that they could purchase and use. I have been informed that there are two such spots that have been considered.
Please use them and stop picking on the average American farmer who is trying desperately to earn a living while preserving a little piece of family history and land for their own to have when the time comes.
Stephanie Robbins
Smyrna 37167
The Tennessean
Published: Wednesday, 5/10/2006
TVA should look elsewhere for land
To the Editor:
I just finished the TVA article about plans to take a large area of farmland to build a substation. ("Power plan jolts rural area," May 6)
I am totally appalled by this. Not only are they taking away farmland that has been in families up to four generations with no regard whatsoever to those living and making a life there. They feel they have the right to come in and say, "Sell to us, or we'll condemn and get the property anyway." That is a shameful thing for TVA to do, just shameful.
This isn't some area that has been out of service for years and no one wants. This is some of the most beautiful farmland that Tennessee has to offer and it also serves many different people in many ways. So they wouldn't just be "putting out" the families, they would be affecting all those who are serviced by these farms. I for one, buy hay from the Scotts and have been out to their farm many a time. It is beautiful, so beautiful in fact that my husband would love to have just 10 acres for us to live on, but you don't see us saying, "Sell or we'll condemn your property."
I hope someone from TVA reads this letter and finds some commercial property that hasn't been used in years, I'm sure there is something somewhere that they could purchase and use. I have been informed that there are two such spots that have been considered.
Please use them and stop picking on the average American farmer who is trying desperately to earn a living while preserving a little piece of family history and land for their own to have when the time comes.
Stephanie Robbins
Smyrna 37167
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