We represent RIVER'S EDGE and, with other counsel, groups and citizens are fighting PATH. PATH is a combine of utility companies that want to run a 765 kilovolt transmission power line from toxic coal generating plants in West Virginia through Virginia and Maryland.
PATH file an application in Virginia with the SCC last September over the objection of the Sierra Club, the Piedmont Environmental Council, local governments, and the landowners this line would overrun.
We charged that PATH couldn't prove we needed this line except to improve their bottom line.
In recent days, a Christmas "present" you might say, PATH asked to suspend the proceedings because, they couldn't prove need, and their application was incomplete, so PATH wanted time to get the goods they didn't have.
So River's Edge and others opposed the delay and asked to dismiss the PATH application with prejudice, based on prior rulings of the SCC and because their application was not complete.
We all appeared at a hearing in Richmond on tis past Thursday at 1pm to say just that.
Congressman Frank Wolf wrote a letter showing his support for the dismissal.
The Hearing Examiner said that he would issue a ruling by close of business Friday, or, at the latest, on Monday.
So we're waiting to hear.
You can read more in the local papers.
But watch this space and we'll let you know what's happening.
John Flannery (JonFlan@aol.com )
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