Allenwood, Pa. — Brett Taylor arrived at PPL Electric's June 3 open house in Montgomery still dirty from baling hay. He left knowing that a proposed 230,000-volt transmission line would run straight across the middle of his farm.
Taylor is a Washington Township supervisor and the Farm Director on the Lycoming County Planning Commission. He also farms extensively across the region. When he stepped out of the meeting's structured station-by-station format to get a better look at the route maps, he said PPL staff were visibly unhappy about it.
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