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Hampshire commissioners asked to reverse opposition to power line
May 7, 2008 by Mona Ridder in Cumberland Times-News
May 7, 2008 by Mona Ridder in Cumberland Times-News
Apparently hoping that a proposed agreement between the staff of the West Virginia Public Service Commission and Allegheny Energy would put a better face on the utility's proposed Trans-Allegheny Interstate Power Line project, the Hampshire County Commission received an e-mail request to reverse its opposition to the project.
Commissioners Don Cookman, Steve Slonaker and Robert Hott, however, all agreed that would not happen.
Landowners Fear Ruin From Power Line Route
December 11, 2006 by Sandhya Somashekhar, Staff Writer in Washington Post
December 11, 2006 by Sandhya Somashekhar, Staff Writer in Washington Post
The 15-story towers and crackling cables that are planned to cut across the Northern Virginia countryside are just red lines on a map, a paper illustration of what could come.
But for Cameron Eaton, who learned shortly after Thanksgiving that one of the proposed routes for a new high-voltage power line slices across her Fauquier County property, they have already brought the specter of financial ruin.
She bought her 100-acre Delaplane farm last year, when it was an overgrown slice of land anchored by a rundown old farmhouse just off Interstate 66. She plowed all her savings into it. To pay down her $1 million mortgage and build up her horse business, she planned to sell a five-acre chunk within a couple of years.
Then came what her neighbors have come to regard as “the black cloud.”
Supes delay decision - It’s a matter of timing
September 7, 2006 by James Jacenich, Staff Writer in The Recorder
September 7, 2006 by James Jacenich, Staff Writer in The Recorder
MONTEREY — “Now is not the time,” said Highland County supervisor Jerry Rexrode in response to a request for money and a letter of support for a feasibility study to establish a tourist trail in the Alleghany Highlands. “Maybe six months from now and I would support it,” he said.
At Tuesday night’s supervisors’ meeting, the trail idea concerned officials because of pending litigation faced by the county.
Rexrode said he does not oppose tourism or money
spent to enhance tourism in Highland, but repeated it was the wrong time to commit to the project.
Highlanders pick apart wind plans - 60 of 66 speakers at SCC hearings oppose HNWD application
March 16, 2006 by Anne Adams, Staff Writer in The Recorder
March 16, 2006 by Anne Adams, Staff Writer in The Recorder
MONTEREY — Bleachers and basketball nets notwithstanding, Highland’s elementary school gym played host this week to perhaps the most important debate in county history.
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