According to Monroe County Beacon, April 16 and available today April 14:

Rover Pipeline LLC vs. Raymond Snell.

from Monroe County Clerk of Courts site:

Complaint is for Temporary restraining order; preliminary and permanent  injunction.

Snell owns property in Lee TWP  Section 2    right in path of Rover Pipeline

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Again Sir, your attached letters only reflect opinions and not real world willing seller-willing buyer situations. My Oregon study showed the same thing. The appraiser actually went to the real estate agents 5 years after all of the subdivision lots were sold, after the pipeline was installed. The final statistics showed less than 1% of the potential buyers rejected purchasing a lot due to the presence of a high pressure gas pipeline. I have many photo's of pipelines through subdivisions with some built before pipe installed and some after.

While it may make sense to many that any intrusion on personal property by a utility will devalue the property, it still doesn't show up in real life transactions. When it comes to real estate, the old adage of location, location and location, still applies regardless of unseen pipelines.

Here is a recent relevant study on the impact that pipelines have on real estate values:

Gas pipelines don’t lower property values, INGAA Foundation study finds


February 29, 2016

An underground natural gas pipeline’s presence does not affect residential properties’ sales prices or insurability, a study commissioned by INGAA Foundation Inc. concluded. The study by Integra Realty Resources Inc. for the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America’s foundation based the finding on analysis of property sales in Ohio, New Jersey, Virginia, and Mississippi.

A fifth analysis, of a community in Pennsylvania by a separate appraisal company, also was included, the foundation said on Feb. 29. “After comparison of approximately 200 sale transactions in five areas, we were able to determine there is no measurable negative impact in home values associated with the presence of a gas pipeline,” said David Dominy, IRR senior managing director.

The report’s major conclusions were:

• There is no measurable impact on the sales price of properties along or in proximity to a gas pipeline vs. properties not along or in proximity to the same pipeline.

• Neither the size nor the age of a gas pipeline affects a property’s sale price.

• There is no impact on demand for properties along gas pipeline easements, nor is development in areas with gas pipelines hindered.

• Gas pipelines do not affect the property value of any particular type of residence any more or less than another residential type.

• The sales frequency of homes “on” a pipeline is consistent with those “off” a pipeline, indicating that a pipeline’s presence does not inhibit sales.

• Buyers purchasing homes along pipeline easements in each area were able to obtain conventional, Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Affairs loans. This indicates that a gas pipeline’s presence had no effect on obtaining a mortgage, the study indicated.

• Insurance companies and agents interviewed said there was no indication that a gas pipeline’s presence would hinder a buyer’s ability to acquire property insurance. They also said there was no indication that insurance policy premiums would increase because of the pipeline’s proximity, the study said.

“Based upon the geographically disparate areas studied, IRR concluded that it was highly likely that the results and conclusions of this report would apply to other markets across the country in which gas pipelines were located,” the report said.

INGAA Foundation Pres. Donald F. Santa, who also is INGAA’s president, said the new report’s conclusions back findings of the foundation’s 2001 report on property values along gas pipeline routes.

“These findings might help property owners feel more confident about natural gas pipelines proposed in their communities,” Santa said.

Contact Nick Snow at nicks@pennwell.com.

You can never build or plant trees on a ROW. There is very careful word parsing in this article, to the effect of equating being near a ROW is equal to having a ROW on property. ROW will never increase the value of a property, It will always decrease the value of a property. Trying so hard to diminish that aspect without acknowledging the obvious seems to express a strong bias.

Collocating lines makes sense, especially from an efficiency standpoint.  I'm shocked a government body is interested in doing something the smart way.

Strange to me that this thread pops up after almost a year. lol Saturday at the NARO meeting I had several people say to me that they had not signed with Rover and were being threated with eminent domain.    Also  there were questions being asked from the audience about the Rover.  And the environmental study arrived at libraries and government offices along the route of the Rover last week.

Let's face it folks, the oil and gas business may be in the dumps but the infrastructure build out goes on.

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