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WV Landowner Sues PATH Transmission Companies for Devaluing Property

4/2/2012

6 Comments

 
Check out what Bill Howley dug up over at The Power Line.  It seems that a WV landowner is annoyed at PATH and the developer he bought property from that, unbeknown to him, PATH was planning to plow right through it.  The developer claims that it was also unaware about PATH until after the sale.

PATH is represented by the odious and insufferable shysters from Jackson Kelly that were so much fun during the PATH CPCN case in West Virginia.  The sophomoric haranguing of opponents that floats Jackson Kelly schmuck Melick's boat comes through loud and clear.

Q.    Did -- did anybody at PATH try to force you to sell property to them at this time?
A.    No.
MR. BOWLES:    I'm going to object to the form of the question. What does "force" mean? It's not clear.
MR. MELICK:    That's an English word.
Q.    (By Mr. Melick) Did anybody -- if you don't understand the question, I'll -- I'll explain it to....

Honestly, what a dipstick.  But once you get over the vaudeville going on, reading PATH's feeble lies is interesting, in a train wreck sort of way.  For instance, the Melick-clown keeps trying to insist that had the developer properly recorded the subdivision with the county that PATH would have avoided crossing through a subdivision.  Hahahahahahahaaa!  I seem to remember PATH's original route marching through my own subdivision (properly recorded in 1981) with such severity that 16 out of 31 existing homes would have been gone.  And then there was PATH's arrogant assertion to the owners of  these homes, at their dog & pony show, that these homes in the way would simply be torn down and disposed of.  Way to go, fellas!  :-)

So what? Even if the developer didn't record the subdivision properly, it's not going to win PATH any brownie points.

If you're one of the thousands of landowners who still has PATH's "suspended" project looming over your property, this might be a case worth following.


6 Comments
Developer
4/3/2012 02:55:21 am

Ashton Woods subdivision and TrAIL????

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Keryn
4/3/2012 05:15:12 am

The subdivisions decimated by TrAIL and the proposed PATH project are quite numerous. PATH spent $4.5M buying up lots and homes in a subdivision in Loudoun County, Virginia, as part of their scheme to pit landowners against each other with the goal of forcing the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to release a conversation easement in PATH's way (and the cost of this influencing -- PATH claimed it's not lobbying -- was in the hundreds of thousands, all paid for by electric ratepayers).

If this is the Melick-clown's best defense, I'm laughing!

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JRHT link
4/3/2012 02:45:54 pm

Melick fails to understand or acknowledge/admit that if a power line, in this case PATH, is not going through a defined subdivision, it is going through a private landowners property which is also seeing the property values destroyed.
The arrogance and assumption that we landowners are so stupid is beyond belief!
High Transmission powerlines destroy property values and the property owner is left with the destroyed values and a powerline!

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Keryn
4/4/2012 04:42:08 am

Check out the WV PSC Case # 12-0081-E-PC for another little interesting hole they've dug about property values/power lines. ;-)

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