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No power line through Carey area; Final route yet to be decided
A controversial power transmission line proposed by NorthWestern Energy will run through Blaine County, though not through the Carey area as previous proposals had indicated.
The Sioux Falls, S.D.,-based energy company's project manager, Tom Pankratz, updated Blaine County commissioners on the status of the proposed 500-kilovolt line, called the Mountain States Transmission Intertie, during the commission's regular meeting Tuesday.
September 15, 2010
by Katherine Wutz
in Idaho Mountain Express
A controversial power transmission line proposed by NorthWestern Energy will run through Blaine County, though not through the Carey area as previous proposals had indicated.
The Sioux Falls, S.D.,-based energy company's project manager, Tom Pankratz, updated Blaine County commissioners on the status of the proposed 500-kilovolt line, called the Mountain States Transmission Intertie, during the commission's regular meeting Tuesday.
The line is proposed to run nearly 400 miles through southwestern Montana and eastern Idaho.
No fewer than seven alternative routes exist between the line's proposed origin in Townsend, Mont., and its terminus at Midpoint substation south of Shoshone. However, there... [continue via Web link]
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