StopPATH WV

A motion was filed this week in the PATH case by Bill Howley, one of the pro se intervenors.  Mr. Howley asks that the intervention period be re-opened for a period of 30 days so that affected property owners can become parties to the case.  A great many property owners who will be severely impacted by the PATH project received their first notice courtesy of a PATH land agent knocking on their door asking that they sign survey forms and option agreements permitting a new easement across their property.  These land agents only began their door-to-door campaign AFTER the deadline to intervene had passed and property owners had missed the opportunity to participate in the case before the PSC.  Read Howley's motion here http://www.psc.state.wv.us/scripts/WebDocket/ViewDocument.cfm?CaseActivityID=292189&NotType='servicelist'&CaseServiceListID=25710


Yesterday, council for the applicants (PATH) filed a response to Mr. Howley's motion that insinuates that "property owners" who would have taken advantage of their right to participate in the case if they had only received timely notice do not exist and are merely a figment of Howley's imagination.   Read the response here http://www.psc.state.wv.us/scripts/WebDocket/ViewDocument.cfm?CaseActivityID=292771&NotType='servicelist'&CaseServiceListID=25710


If you are a "figment", please let the PSC know that you want to become involved if the intervention period is re-opened.


How little regard PATH's attorneys have for the citizens of West Virginia!  Properties that have been handed down for generations will be destroyed and lives will be forever altered by this project.  Not only will these citizens be stripped of their property, but their rights as well and what they get in return is the insinuation that they are of so little value that they are nothing but a figment of someone's imagination!