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

Here are links to the last three days of hearings on the Allegheny Power TrAIL power line:

Day 8 — Jan .17

Day 9 — Jan .18

Day 10 — Jan. 19

Here are links to more transcripts of hearings.

Day 2 — Jan. 10, 2008

Day 3 — Jan. 11, 2008

Day 4 — Jan. 12, 2008 (Yes, this is a Saturday, but the Commission met.)

Day 5 — Jan. 14, 2008

Day 6 — Jan. 15, 2008

Day 7 — Jan. 16, 2008

The West Virginia Public Service Commission is posting on its Web site transcripts of its evidentiary hearings into Allegheny Power’s plan to build the TrAIL power line through the Capon Valley.

This link will take you to the 283-page transcript for Day 1, Jan. 9.

Bri West of the Piedmont Environmental Council, one of the few people with the time, energy or know-how to read through every page of every Allegheny Power document filed in the TrAIL power line case, finds a gem in the TrAIL documentation.

[The Consumer Advocate Division of the WV Public Service Commission] cut a deal that will raise the rates of most of the people in West Virginia in order to benefit a small crowd of landowners. But in fact, those landowners don’t even really get “free electricity” because in exchange they will receive reduced compensation value for their properties (see details below).

The Consumer Advocate should be caring for all of the people in the state – Not trying to appease TrAILCo. …

17. Component of Fair Market Value. The Parties agree, and each Agreement will
specify, that TrAILCo’s obligation to pay the Transmission Credit and the aggregate amount of
such payment while the Facilities are emplaced on the Subject Property to which the
Transmission Credit relates, are a component of the agreed upon fair market value paid by
TrAILCo for the Legal Interest that TrAILCo is required to obtain in the Subject Property in
order to construct and operate such Facilities. The person or entity owning each parcel of
Subject Property shall have the option of rejecting TrAILCo’s offer of the Transmission Credit
as a component of fair market value and elect to receive the agreed upon fair market value paid
in cash upon acquisition of the Legal Interest in the Subject Property by TrAILCo. The Parties
further agree and recommend that TrAILCo’s payment of the Transmission Credit is and should
be considered as a component of TrAILCo’s operation and maintenance costs and recovered
through TrAILCo’s transmission revenue requirement as in effect from time to time in a tariff on file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or its successor (“FERC”), and the CAD will support any TrAILCo effort to seek the recovery of its payment of the Transmission Credit
in TrAILCo ’ s transmission revenue requirement.