Posted on 09/04/2014 9:46:19 AM PDT by george76
State regulators have cleared Vermont Gas Systems to install pipeline near power lines owned by the Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO). The company was temporarily forbidden to do work near the power lines over concerns that the chemical treatment used on utility poles would be disturbed by the work.
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Vermont Gas submitted the plan the day the Public Service Board ordered it, and after receiving comments on the plan, the board approved it on August 26.
Work on the controversial pipeline is ongoing. Vermont Gas has filed for permission to go ahead with the next phase of the project, which would extend the pipeline from Addison County under Lake Champlain to a paper mill in Ticonderoga, New York. The pipeline's third phase would bring gas south to Rutland.
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