Feds pick Delaware (and MD) for electricity corridor -builders could invoke eminent domain for land:

[cyberpj]

Feds pick Del. for electricity corridor
Power line builders could invoke eminent domain to acquire land
By AARON NATHANS, The News Journal
Posted Wednesday, October 3, 2007

In an effort to keep electricity flowing and prevent massive blackouts, the federal government has chosen Delaware, along with nine states and the District of Columbia, as areas where it could enforce eminent domain to build new electricity lines on private property.

The Department of Energy finalized plans on Tuesday to designate Delaware part of its mid-Atlantic "National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor."

That means if an applicant in the state wants to build a new power line and does not receive approval from the state within a year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could issue the permit and authorize construction.

The finalized mid-Atlantic corridor would run from Virginia and Washington north to include most of Maryland, all of New Jersey and Delaware and large sections of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The Energy Department also designated a Southwest corridor made up of portions of California and Arizona.

More plus map:
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071003/NEWS/710030390/1006/NEWS

[LynneSin]

1. This is total bullshit

How many communities are they planning to destroy to build this thing?

[jberryhill]

2. OTOH...

Judging by the map, they want to run down through the coastal zone and then cut across.

There are worse things that can be done there than putting in some high voltage lines (making it hard to develop for anything else).

But running around the other side of the Chesapeake would be less vulnerable to storm damage.