North Carolina Coop Seeking Addition of Transmission Line in a Wilderness Area

A Rutherford County coop may end up in conflict with ecologists after seeking to run a 12-mile, high-voltage power line through an area of unbroken forest that is currently part of a conservation zone.  Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation says the proposed line would prevent brownouts in a rural community of 1,900 families but ecologists counter that the line would run a 100-foot-wide dagger through the heart of some of the rarest plant and wildlife habitats in North Carolina.  Click here to read more on this story.

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