Greg Davenport says he’s not opposed to progress. But he has serious misgivings when it comes to a proposed 16-inch natural gas pipeline that a public agency wants to run through his family’s Christian County farm, property his family has owned since the 1940s.
“Basically, they said, ‘Sign this, or we’ll take you to court. Sign this, or we’ll condemn your property,’ Davenport said. “We just don’t think that this pipeline that’s going to serve other people — it’s not going to serve us at all. I don’t think it’s even going to serve our county — that we should have to bear the blunt.”
Davenport’s family is involved in one of more than 20 active lawsuits in Western Kentucky courts in which the Todd County-based Pennyrile Regional Energy Agency has sued landowners, citing the state’s eminent domain laws, for easements as part of a proposed 53-mile gas pipeline project across Christian County, Todd County, Trigg County, Caldwell County, and Lyon County…