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Battle lines drawn over San Luis Valley electric-transmission plans
The red and white dotted line snaking 146 miles across a map of Colorado could be a path to a new energy economy or a scar on the state's spectacular landscape.
That string of dots - a proposed new high-voltage transmission line into the San Luis Valley - also is pitting utilities, agricultural and business interests against an amalgam of community groups and landowners, from a goat herder to a billionaire hedge-fund manager.
It is a battle that may be fought across Colorado, as the state needs $2 billion in new transmission lines to tap into wind and solar power, according to a state task force.
And it is a clash running across the West.
December 13, 2009
by Mark Jaffe
in The Denver Post
ALAMOSA - The red and white dotted line snaking 146 miles across a map of Colorado could be a path to a new energy economy or a scar on the state's spectacular landscape.
That string of dots - a proposed new high-voltage transmission line into the San Luis Valley - also is pitting utilities, agricultural and business interests against an amalgam of community groups and landowners, from a goat herder to a billionaire hedge-fund manager.
It is a battle that may be fought across Colorado, as the state needs $2 billion in new transmission lines to tap into wind and solar power,... [continue via Web link]
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