Article: United States: Alberta landowners fail to prevent construction of cross-border transmission line.

Byline: kusumv03

An appeal by landowners to block the construction of a power line from southern Alberta to Montana will not be heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. (MATL) is planning to construct and operate a 230-kilovolt (kV), 346 kilometre power line to import and export electricity between Lethbridge, Alberta and Great Falls, Montana.

Landowners along the planned route filed a request with Canada s highest court, asking permission to appeal the Court of Appeal of Alberta s decision to uphold MATL s Alberta Energy and Utilities Board (EUB) permit.

With this decision, all legal avenues in Canada have been exhausted ...

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