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Blue Line Group Organizes Meeting in Morinville
03/11/2010 22:13
The argument against the Heartland Transmission Project has switched focus to landowner rights with a new organization called the Blue Line Group, named after the project's alternate rural route running west of Edmonton. The group has called a meeting for Thursday, November 4, at 7:00 pm at...
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AUC Information Sessions & Important Dates
22/10/2010 10:01
While the deadline for registering to participate in the hearings for the Heartland Transmission Project has already passed (October 21, 2010), the AUC has scheduled two information sessions to take place in Morinville and Edmonton on October 25 and 26, respectively.
Times and locations are thus:
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AUC Sets Hearing Date
08/10/2010 11:45
The Alberta Utilities Commission has released information about the next steps of the Heartland Transmission Project's facility application. The application will be heard on November 2, 2010 at 9:00 am at the Edmonton EXPO Centre, 7515 118 Avenue.
The Notice of Application document can...
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Residents' Concerns Do Not Justify Burying the Line
29/09/2010 10:03
EPCOR and AltaLink have filed the Heartland application to the AUC and have stated that "athough stakeholders may believe that ... [burying lines or using monopoles] options would mitigate concerns with respect to potential visual, property value and EMF (electro-magnetic field) impacts, the...
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Heartland Team Ready to File Facility Application
25/09/2010 19:24
Here is a link to the September newsletter from the Heartland Transmission Project. It really doesn't say very much beyond what's been expressed all along in terms of the preferred and alternate routes and the tower options.
The way the newsletter lays out the information, it appears that there...
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Concerns in Upgrader Alley
18/09/2010 21:50
More and more people are questioning the need for the power lines put forward by the Heartland Transmission Project. A recent meeting in Redwater raised the same questions as have been asked in nearby Strathcona County.
Read more...
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Taller Towers to Your Liking?
18/08/2010 11:37
No?
Then make sure you attend one of the remaining Tower Information Sessions and let the Heartland Transmission Project folks know that you not be swayed into a debate about transmission towers. This project has increasingly been about ignoring public consultations, where opinions expressed are...
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AUC Process Update
03/08/2010 16:42
The Alberta Utilities Commission issued a process update on August 3, 2010 that confirms the expected timeline of the application for the Heartland Transmission Project (fall 2010) and outlines how anyone that may be directly and adversely affected can get involved.
The PDF document can be...
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July Update & Tower Information Sessions
20/07/2010 21:00
The Heartland Transmission Project team has issued a newsletter for July to update stakeholders. You can download it by clicking here or directly from the project website here:
https://www.heartlandtransmission.ca/upload/file/July%2019%202010%20updates/July%202010%20Newsletter.pdf
There...
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Open House Summary Report Available
31/05/2010 10:05
The Heartland Transmission Project hosted seven open houses across the Capital Region earlier this year, with total attendance at about 600. A summary report outlining issues, concerns and comments gathered from attendees can be downloaded from the project's website by clicking here:...
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