» Monthly Archives: October 2010
Illinois Supreme Court Upholds Immunity Granted in Citizen Participation Act
By Jeffrey Gould, General Counsel for the Saint Consulting Group
This past week the Illinois Supreme Court issued a sweeping decision upholding the immunity granted under the Illinois Citizen Participation Act, stating that the Act must be construed broadly to afford citizens the protection of the First Amendment’s right to free speech and petitioning of the ...
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Opposed to everything? Okay, what is good development, reader asks?
A reader last year asked The Saint Report: “When are we going to hear something about ‘good’ or ‘appropriate’ development from Saint? As much as you all rail against NIMBYism, it is typically conservative interests (not the elusive ’suburban liberals’ – a group that any pollster will tell you doesn’t exist) that block development in and ...
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Rail facility development and NIMBYs: ICCTA exemption is powerful tool
(Owen Eagan has been a project manager, division manager and senior vice president for transportation for The Saint Consulting Group. This article was originally published in the September-October 2010 edition of Association Highlights, a newsletter of the Association of Transportation Law Professionals)
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
It doesn’t matter how good a project is, ...
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How to overcome opposition to shale gas exploration and production
By Jay Vincent,
Senior Vice President – Energy Sector, Practice Leader, The Saint Consulting Group
Web trends about opposition to gas drilling show a clear path towards massive opposition growing from local land owners concerned about property value impacts to environmentalists concerned about the technology being used to extract gas from the shale. To mitigate the impact ...
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Transportation Law Professionals: NIMBYs and the Rail Termination Act
Association of Transportation Law Professionals — September/October 2010 — Owen Eagan of Saint Consulting on when to use, and not over-use, preemption under the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act. Railroads are interstate by nature — if local interests were allowed to have their way with them, a decision in one jurisdiction would have profound effects ...
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Urban Land: Saint UK vice president on European trends
September/October 2010 — Urban Land Magazine — United Kingdom residential developers face difficult times ahead because the Coalition Government has removed housing targets, Nick Keable, vice president of UK operations for The Saint Consulting Group, said at a Urban Land Institute Conference on European Trends in London earlier this summer.
Keable also ...
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