"A federal appeals court today [Friday] rejected the Army Corps of Engineers' approval of a 17-mile transmission line across the James River, determining the corps did not properly analyze the full impacts of the power line that critics say degrades the site of the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown, Va.
The 26-page opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit directs the corps to go back and conduct a full environmental impact statement, which could take years to complete.
In doing so, the appeals court has placed the fate of the project in doubt. Dominion Virginia Power has already built the 17 high-tower transmission lines, some nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty, and it placed the line in operation this week."
Ellen M. Gilmer and Scott Streater report for Greenwire March 1, 2019.
