‘Our farmland is precious’: Judge sides with landowners in their fight against central Pa. power line project
Updated Dec 31, 2020;
A proposed controversial power line project that would cross over the Pennsylvania state line into northern Maryland continues to lose support.
Administrative Law Judge Elizabeth H. Barnes, assigned to oversee the case of Transource Energy’s application, recommended on Dec. 22 to deny its approval and reject a settlement that would construct the high voltage transmission lines project in York and Franklin counties.
“The applicant has failed to show need for the project within the meaning of Commission regulations and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Code,” Barnes wrote.
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A judge has recommended that a project to run high-voltage transmission lines through southcentral Pennsylvania not move forward.
In a ruling last week, Administrative Law Judge Elizabeth H. Barnes advised Pennsylvania s Public Utility Commission to deny key aspects of Transource s Independence Energy Connection Project:
Applications seeking approval to begin siting and construction on the two 230 kV lines, which would run on 13-story towers between Franklin County and Washington County, Md. and York County and Harford County, Md.
Applications for Transource to acquire parts of land from 77 owners in both Pennsylvania counties.
The judge also recommended that the PUC direct Transource to show why it should not lose its certificate of public convenience - a document required to operate as a public utility - stating that the need the project s approval was based on has not been proven.