Well here we go again....only the drilling and pipeline aren't neighbors of the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska. We're talking much closer to home, we're talking Chester County.

Trouble-is-a-brewing because all of a sudden gas companies want rights of ways off family farms...and if the farmers don't sell the land the gas companies have asked to buy,according to The Philadelphia Inquirer today, it also means eminent domain for private gain...after all we're not talking public purpose, we're talking private companies:

Pipeline push worries Chester County farmers
By Nancy Petersen
Inquirer Staff Writer

Ken Miller's visitor was unexpected, and her offer was unwelcome.
Introducing herself as a representative of Dominion Keystone, she told Miller that the new company might want to buy a right-of-way through his Chester County dairy farm for a natural-gas pipeline.

She presented a map showing a proposed 150-foot-wide right-of-way across the back of Miller's Birchrun Hills Farm, in West Vincent Township, and a five-acre piece that the company might want to buy for a monitoring station.

Miller, a fourth-generation farmer and a township supervisor, was stunned.

"My farm is not that big," 54 acres, "and we intend on farming it for a long time," he said. "It did not make for a good day."....And under federal law, the landowners might not have much choice....If a landowner refuses to sell a right-of-way for the line, the company can ask FERC for permission to condemn it.

"The power of eminent domain is the one power that trumps everything else," Evans-Stanton said. "In this case, the government is using it for private projects. It is unfortunate."