StopPATH WV

In an order from the WV PSC yesterday, PATH was directed to individually notify landowners who now find themselves in PATH's 2200 foot "preferred corridor" due to recent routing changes.  These landowners in Hampshire, Grant and Tucker Counties will be given the opportunity to intervene in the case if they file by October 19.  The PSC also provided text for the notice, which will prevent PATH from turning the notice into some sort of marketing/intimidation/half-truth tool similar to what they used in Virginia last year.


Bravo -- to the PSC for providing text for the notice; and to the citizens of West Virginia who worked so hard to get landowner notification legislation passed earlier this year; and to our WV legislators who proved that their interests are with the citizens they represent and not the corporate interests who are always in their face trying to influence or outright buy their votes!


The PSC has also decided to reel in the rope they have been playing out as PATH danced around their "align the procedural schedules in all three states" lie.  The PSC has ordered that PATH file a description of the current state of the PATH project in Maryland and Virginia within 14 days. Seems the PSC is finally losing their patience with the lies, subterfuge and delays coming from the applicants -- welcome to our world, commissioners!


PATH also received another slap on the wrist for the despicable way their land agents and representatives from Louis Berger Group have been lying to landowners, trespassing and attempting to intimidate them.  Keep those complaints coming, folks!