329. John Rich: Fighting Govt. Land Grabs
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Country music star John Rich is starting a new mission as a national advocate for landowners threatened with displacement by federal agencies.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | In today's podcast, an important and interesting follow-on to my reporting on the controversy involving the Tennessee Valley Authority and the |
| 0:21.8 | participation of country music star John Rich in protecting long-time land owners whose land was |
| 0:28.4 | threatened by the building of a new giant power plant. |
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| 1:08.5 | John Rich, thank you for joining us. I think people would be interested to know a lot's happened since we did that story with you on the Tennessee Valley Authority, trying to take land from some rural Tennessee landowners for a big, big power plant. Do you want to just sort of summarize that story first before we move ahead? |
| 1:28.9 | Well, you bet. It's good to be with you again. And you and I are building quite a history right |
| 1:33.3 | now together with this story and it continues to get bigger. So the TBA is the Tennessee Valley |
| 1:40.0 | Authority. It's been around since the early 1930s was really put into motion by |
| 1:46.1 | FDR they're the only federally owned power company in the United States and |
| 1:52.1 | because of their charter and the way they were set up they don't operate like |
| 1:56.9 | every other power company they they take a lot of liberty, in my opinion, trouncing sections of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, |
| 2:08.3 | especially when it comes to landowner rights. |
| 2:11.0 | So in Cheatham County, Tennessee, which is where I live, just outside of Nashville, |
| 2:16.9 | they had come in and they were going to drop a 900 megawatt methane gas plant right in |
| 2:22.1 | the middle of 400 plus houses, a school district, and the main water supply, and 6,000 |
| 2:28.1 | acres of farmland. |
| 2:30.1 | Not the place you'd want to see something like that built. |
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