One more for the corporations - brought to you by your US Supreme Court
... Corporations can now own your rivers and do with them as they please.
PRIVATE PROPERTY - NO TRESPASSING
Reuters
Feb 22, 2012
US top court rules for PPL on Montana riverbeds
Quote:
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday for a unit of PPL Corp
and overturned a decision that granted Montana ownership of riverbeds
underlying company-owned hydroelectric dams in a case with an estimated $50 million at stake.
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The company had argued the contested stretches of water were not navigable
when Montana became a state in 1889 and therefore the title to the submerged lands
under the dams should not go to the state.
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I guess the Indians never conducted trade on the rivers before Montana became a state.
Oh wait, those were Indians... Nevermind