EDMONTON – Some Alberta landowners are hoping to use the Supreme Court to fight a power transmission line that they say could extend the life of the province’s coal-fired power plants.
The landowners are completing an application to appeal a provincial regulatory decision that gave power transmission company AltaLink approval to use their property for the line.
They say the Surface Rights Board was wrong to conclude it didn’t have the jurisdiction to hear their objections.
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The 350-kilometre line from west of Edmonton to the Calgary area was approved by the Alberta Utilities Commission and was deemed critical infrastructure by the previous government.
Opponents have long argued its main purpose is to create export markets for coal-fired power plants near Edmonton.
They say the plants are likely to face early retirement as Alberta cuts its greenhouse gases, which would render the $1.5-billion line underused.
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