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OG&E land plan stirs debate: Some don't want transmission line
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. has won the first two skirmishes in a legal battle with northwestern Oklahoma landowners over the utility's authority to have private property condemned for a high-voltage transmission line.
The 112-mile-long, 345-kilovolt transmission line would be used to move electricity to the Oklahoma City area from wind farms near Woodward.
May 20, 2009
by Randy Ellis
in The Oklahoman
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. has won the first two skirmishes in a legal battle with northwestern Oklahoma landowners over the utility's authority to have private property condemned for a high-voltage transmission line.
The 112-mile-long, 345-kilovolt transmission line would be used to move electricity to the Oklahoma City area from wind farms near Woodward.
Associate district judges in Blaine and Dewey counties ruled in similar cases Monday that the transmission line would serve a valid public purpose and condemnation should be allowed.
Oklahoma City attorney Robert Gum, who is representing the landowners, said his clients are planning to appeal.
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