A Nebraska crypto company wants to get bigger. Landowners decry NPPD’s use of eminent domain that will help it grow. - Flatwater Free Press

A Nebraska crypto company wants to get bigger. Landowners decry NPPD’s use of eminent domain that will help it grow. - Flatwater Free Press

Justin Kennedy had long envisioned more than a cornfield when he gazed at the plot of family land a half-mile from where he grew up. It was “the perfect setup” for building his dream retirement house in rural Stanton County.  He planted a shelterbelt across the dirt road nearly two decades ago and hoped the trees would one day block prairie gusts from reaching his porch.  Then the Nebraska Public Power District announced its intention to run a h…