Capon Valley Coalition

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The following legal notice appeared in the May7, 2008, edition of The Hampshire Review:

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
OF WEST VIRGINIA
CHARLESTON
CASE NO. 07-0508-E-CN
TRANS-ALLEGHENY INTERSTATE LINE COMPANY
Application for a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity authorizing the construction and operation of the West Virginia segments of a 500 KV electric transmission line and related facilities in Monongalia, Preston, Tucker, Grant, Hardy, and Hampshire Counties, and for related relief.

NOTICE OF HEARING ON JOINT STIPULATION
On April 15, 2008, Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line Company, the Consumer Advocate Division of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia, the Staff of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia, and the West Virginia Energy Users Group, filed a Joint Stipulation and Agreement for Settlement (“Joint Stipulation”) in the above proceeding.

By Order of the Public Service Commission of West Virginia entered on May 1, 2008, the Commission set a hearing to discuss the status of this case. The hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m., on Friday, May 30, 2008, in the Howard M. Cunningham Hearing Room, Public Service Commission Building, 201 Brooks Street, Charleston, West Virginia. The hearing is open to the public. The May 30, 2008, hearing is only for the purpose of addressing the Joint Stipulation. The commission will not take public comment during this hearing.
TRANS-ALLEGHENY
INTERSTATE LINE COMPANY
5-7-2c

From The Hampshire Review in Romney, WV, on Wednesday, May 07, 2008:

By MARLA PISCIOTTA
Review Staff

ROMNEY — Hampshire County commissioners said they were against rescinding their opposition to TrAIL, a proposed power line running across Hampshire County near Rio and Yellow Spring.

The commission received a letter from Allegheny Power, the company spearheading the power line, asking it to recend the resolution, which objected to the line.

During the regular commission meeting Tuesday, county residents Bill Goleman, Grady Bradfield, who is a former county commissioner, Robert Paul and Clyde DeWitt expressed their displeasures with Allegheny Power and the proposed project.

Commissioner Robert Hott said he also received a letter opposing the power line from Yellow Spring resident Ralph Wojtowicz.

The proposed electrical power line project would cut a 240-mile path through West Virginia, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

Commissioner Steve Slonaker said regardless of the recent “changes” in Allegheny Power’s recent plans, he still opposes the project.

“Once the line goes across your land, it’s there forever,” said Slonaker.

Slonaker said for the past 44 years a power line has gone across his property.

“The power company has made lots of money in the past 44 years off that line. I have not benefited,” said Slonaker.

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