Stop the PREA Pipeline

Stop the PREA from taking Kentucky land.

The PREA (Pennyrile Regional Energy Authority) is already sending out condemnation notices to Kentucky landowners.

Add your name to stop the PREA Pipeline from seizing Kentucky land.

We'll only contact you about this pipeline and your property rights.

The PREA is counting on landowners staying quiet. Send the petition to your neighbors and ask them to add their names too.

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The case against the PREA pipeline

An unelected board, an arbitrary price, and zero benefits for impacted residents.

Read it in plain language. Every point below comes straight from the record: what the PREA has filed, what its board has said under oath, and what Kentucky law actually allows.

They set the price. They don't negotiate.

The PREA arbitrarily sets its own price for your land. No negotiation. No independent appraisal. No input from the person who owns it.

Roughly 80 percent of the easements on this route are already signed, every one of them at the number the PREA set. That is not a market. That is a board grading its own paper.

Kentucky law gives a landowner who refuses the right to a fair market value set by an independent judge — not by the PREA. Some landowners have already refused and told the PREA to make its case in court. Every landowner on this route has that same right.

Turn that price down and the PREA can take you to court and condemn the land anyway.

Two small towns created this board. No one on the route can vote them out.

Two tiny towns — Guthrie and Trenton — created the PREA and handed it the power to condemn land across five counties to serve a single end user. Eight people sit on that board, and nearly every one of them is connected to Todd County.

No one on this proposed route elected them. No one on this route can vote a single member of them out. They are deciding what a stranger's property is worth and how fast it can be taken, and not one of them will lose an acre of their own land to this project.

A powerful Frankfort lawmaker from Todd County is clearing the way for it.

State Rep. Jason Petrie, a Republican from Elkton, chairs the House budget committee. In 2022 he secured the $30 million in state tax money that launched the PREA — an agency created by two towns in his home county with fewer than 2,000 people between them.

The state Public Service Commission told the PREA not to start building or serving customers until it got permission. The PREA took the PSC to court. Petrie then amended Senate Bill 8 to exempt the PREA from PSC regulation, a change that would settle that court fight in the PREA's favor.

Under oath, PREA board chair Eston Glover said the agency sends no reports on the $30 million to the government. Asked who he does update, he said he briefs Petrie and the governor "orally, personally." Petrie says they have talked "less than a handful of times."

Source: Kentucky Lantern, March 31, 2026

A pipeline easement is permanent. The farm doesn't come back.

This is multigenerational Kentucky farmland — the kind that feeds a family for a hundred years and gets handed down, not signed away. A farm that took four generations to build does not come back once a permanent easement runs through the middle of it.

The PREA's payment covers only the narrow strip it takes. The extra access and workspace easements it also demands can disrupt irrigation, split fields, and cut the resale value of everything left over.

Some of the farms on this route qualify for Kentucky's own Heritage Farm designation — land the same family has owned and worked for more than a century. Many of the owners are retirees on fixed incomes who have lived here their whole lives and cannot afford years of litigation. Once a retiree signs, the value of that century farm is gone for good, along with what their grandchildren would have inherited.

It uses a utility's power to take land for one private company.

Kentucky law does not allow government to condemn land solely to benefit a private company. A single private company — Novelis, an aluminum plant in Guthrie — is the only customer this proposed pipeline would serve. Not you. Not your neighbors. Not one other family on this route.

The PREA told state regulators, in writing, that it is not a utility, so utility rules don't apply to it. Then it turned around and used a utility's condemnation power to take private land. It wants every advantage of being a utility and none of the obligations. There is no emergency here — no showing that these five counties are short on gas at all. The only deadline on this project is the one the PREA set for itself.

$30 million in state tax money, and no public record of how it's spent.

$30M

in state tax money to the PREA, announced by Gov. Andy Beshear in September 2022

$7–8M

estimated already spent — with nothing built

$120–150M

projected total. No one has explained where the rest comes from.

public reports or state audits showing how a dollar of it has been spent

“We don't send anything to the government. We keep both sides updated on what we're doing.”

Eston Glover, PREA board chair, under oath, asked to account for the $30 million

The Kentucky Public Service Commission could have regulated this project. State Rep. Jason Petrie, who helped secure the PREA's $30 million, also tried to write an exemption putting the PREA outside PSC oversight. That exemption was stripped out before the bill passed — and still, no independent regulator reviews the route, the price, or the cost estimates. The only people reviewing this project are the same people who created the PREA to build it.

Stop the PREA from taking Kentucky land.

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Your land,
your rights.
Not theirs to take.

Where the PREA wants to run its pipeline

What to do if the PREA contacts you.

An unelected board, an arbitrary price, and zero benefits for impacted residents.

They set the price. They don't negotiate.

Two small towns created this board. No one on the route can vote them out.

A powerful Frankfort lawmaker from Todd County is clearing the way for it.

A pipeline easement is permanent. The farm doesn't come back.

It uses a utility's power to take land for one private company.

$30 million in state tax money, and no public record of how it's spent.

A gas pipeline puts your home, your air, and your well water at risk.

Join your neighbors fighting this pipeline.

Stop the PREA from taking Kentucky land.

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Your land,your rights.Not theirs to take.

Where the PREA wants to run its pipeline

What to do if the PREA contacts you.

01 Do not sign. +

02 You do not have to accept the PREA's number. +

03 Read what else the easement takes. +

04 Every signature makes this harder to stop. +

An unelected board, an arbitrary price, and zero benefits for impacted residents.

They set the price. They don't negotiate.

Two small towns created this board. No one on the route can vote them out.

A powerful Frankfort lawmaker from Todd County is clearing the way for it.

A pipeline easement is permanent. The farm doesn't come back.

It uses a utility's power to take land for one private company.

$30 million in state tax money, and no public record of how it's spent.

No independent regulator is checking the route, the price, or the costs +

A gas pipeline puts your home, your air, and your well water at risk.

Join your neighbors fighting this pipeline.

Your land,
your rights.
Not theirs to take.