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even toe congressmen are at a loss to explain why they did not put the brakes on this huge and confusing project until constitutional issues were addressed.
Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell was not at a loss. In a letter to Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman dated the same day as DOE’S Mid-Atlantic Corridor announcement, McDonnell wrote “I continue to have serious concerns about the actions of the Department of Energy. There must be a greater role for both the states and their citizens in decisions involving electric transmission siting.”
We didn’t know because nobody told private landowners there was a 500-pound gorilla headed their way Utility companies seek approval to build power hnes all the time. This massive transmission line project was far from ordinary It deserved more public notice than the routine blurb in the Federal Register.
Still, the 60-day window of public comment cm the national corridor draft designations did
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