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Chronicle of a Transmission Line Siting

December 30, 2002

Public Utilities Fortnightly, January 1, 2003


Opposition to electric transmission line projects designed to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure can come from a number of sources: the host municipality, adjacent municipalities, the state’s executive branch, the legislative branch, commercial entities, ad hoc or long-standing environmental groups, and/or organized citizen groups. The issues raised can require expertise in an array of thorny legal and factual issues not traditionally encountered in straightforward siting proceedings of the past. Siting a transmission line project today can require strategic analysis and the assembly of a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers and consultants to help safely guide the project around and over the challenges that may be encountered.

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