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Utilities fight to build more power lines

Posted on | April 22, 2012 | No Comments

Disputes occurring as residents pay higher rates

Some strange battle lines are being drawn in the quest by power companies to build new high-voltage lines.

The typical players in power-line fights are grass-roots groups clamoring, often in vain, to stop power companies from building the big projects.

The new disputes come at a time when Wisconsin ratepayers are paying above-average rates. They are pitting utility against utility, and, in once case, a former utility executive against his former employer.

by Thomas Content, Milwaukee Sentinel, April 21, 2012 click here for details

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