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Alabama Power Lawyer Calls Landowner’s Statements, Stance ‘Ridiculous Stuff’

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Alabama Power Lawyer Calls Landowner’s Statements, Stance ‘Ridiculous Stuff’

COLUMBIANA, Ala.—Attorneys for Alabama Power didn’t mince words about Fenn Church in a Shelby County courthouse Monday afternoon.

“Mr. Church—over and over again—has said he wants to be arrested,” Alabama Power attorney Jim Byram told Circuit Court Judge Jonathan Spann. “He wants to be run over by a bulldozer. All this kind of ridiculous stuff.”

Fenn Church, a local property owner who runs a trucking company, has fought for months against Alabama Power’s effort to lay a major transmission line across his rural property.

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Church, 60, has said that while he understands the need for eminent domain for public use, Alabama Power’s construction of a transmission line across his property—a supply line he believes will support data center infrastructure—should be routed through locations where property owners have agreed to the construction.


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