Allenwood, Pa. — Farmers in Union and Lycoming counties are formally organizing to protest a data center's proposed "personal extension cord" being constructed across their properties.
Standing on a 93-acre farm his grandparents bought 100 years ago, Terry Snoddy pointed across the White Deer Valley toward the ridge where PPL Electric Utilities wants to run a new high-voltage transmission line — and toward the two existing rights-of-way he says the utility could use instead.
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Andy Bater, District 6 Director for the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, representing Centre, Clinton, and Lycoming counties.
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Snoddy points in the distance toward the game lands where Alvira once existed.
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Brynn Fisher of Allenwood holds up a map the segmented land and different proposed routes of the transmission line.Â
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Snoddy pulled a map from a tractor of the meeting, depicting the segments of land where the transmission line may run through.Â
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An aerial view of the site of PNK's proposed data center in Gregg Township, Union County.
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Farmer Todd Hiller of Hiller Lane speaks his views.
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Dimarco, vice president of the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners, recounts his experience with PPL's lines through his property.
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Susan Sellard, with her daughter, Susan, seated in the background, speaks of how she wishes to preserve her family's farm for future generations to enjoy.
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Snoddy shows Commissioner Mark Mussina the map's orientation in relation to his farm.
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Brad Sunaday shows a photo of his farm's famed Lovehill in the winter time.
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Taylor reads a statement from PNK's website.
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State Rep. Joe Hamm views one of the maps for the proposed transmission line's potential routes.
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