I'll write more on this issue when I get back to Fredericton.
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I can't figure out where this is based on the photo. If you are talking about the Brunswick Pipeline is Saint John - the detailed route hasn't been selected and won't be until after the NEB approves the preferred route. While the line might go through her property, she couldn't know which specific trees will go.
I do recongize the area now. The pipeline route could very well not touch her land at all. Plus the orange tape she's holding is likely from the shopping/hotel development.
Pipelines follow street routes and highway right of ways, which means the first ten feet of propoerty owners lawns. So whatever trees are in the front of the lawn will be the ones for the chop.
I heard from a very reliable source that it could be OVER 300 houses expropriated for the pipeline. 300 houses is a lot if you ask me. if each of those people are paying 2000 a year in property taxes, that means that Saint John will LOSE 600,000 a year in property taxes.
I'm not sure, but I would guess your source means 300 residental properties. The houses would remain and still be assessed with the regular tax rate. The pipe company tries to avoid expropriating houses because you have to pay market value for what you exproporiate and empty land costs way less than even the smallest and oldest houses.
I think the pipeline pays property taxes for each right of way they get.
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I can't figure out where this is based on the photo. If you are talking about the Brunswick Pipeline is Saint John - the detailed route hasn't been selected and won't be until after the NEB approves the preferred route. While the line might go through her property, she couldn't know which specific trees will go.
I do recongize the area now. The pipeline route could very well not touch her land at all. Plus the orange tape she's holding is likely from the shopping/hotel development.
Pipelines follow street routes and highway right of ways, which means the first ten feet of propoerty owners lawns. So whatever trees are in the front of the lawn will be the ones for the chop.
they are going to put a shopping mall on her front lawn, how convenient
I heard from a very reliable source that it could be OVER 300 houses expropriated for the pipeline. 300 houses is a lot if you ask me. if each of those people are paying 2000 a year in property taxes, that means that Saint John will LOSE 600,000 a year in property taxes.
I'm not sure, but I would guess your source means 300 residental properties. The houses would remain and still be assessed with the regular tax rate. The pipe company tries to avoid expropriating houses because you have to pay market value for what you exproporiate and empty land costs way less than even the smallest and oldest houses.
I think the pipeline pays property taxes for each right of way they get.
The lady is standing in front of her house on Westmorland Road,in Saint John.
This Picture was taken one Westmorland Road in Saint John
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