METRO VANCOUVER — Interest has been intense for homes along the Tsawwassen right-of-way that went up for sale last weekend.
According to B.C. Hydro, more than 600 people have registered to view the first 20 houses to hit the market and the Crown Corporation says it has already received nine offers.
Nearly five hundred people visited the presentation centre home, located at 53A Street over the weekend and the response was extremely positive, said spokesperson Dag Sharman.
BC Hydro purchased 104 homes earlier this year from those who didn’t want to live …

BRODHEADSVILLE — A group of local residents, concerned about plans to build power lines near their homes in the West End, met Wednesday night to discuss how to effectively protest the selection of future site of a 5.7-mile electric line.
PPL Electric Utilities Corp., not represented at the meeting, announced plans in May to construct lines — supported by 100-foot steel poles — from the site of a planned substation near Sun Valley and Indian Mountain Lakes to connect to existing power lines on the west side of Route 115.  PPL …

A 40,000 volt power line could soon stretch 37 miles across parts of North Somerset to connect a new reactor at Hinkley Point nuclear power station to the National Grid.
French energy giant EDF is bidding to open a new reactor at Hinkley and the National Grid announced on Tuesday it would need a new network of overhead cables to connect Hinkley C to an electricity substation called Seabank in Avonmouth.
It will run the lines through one of two routes, which include Yatton, Nailsea, Congresbury and Hewish.
The proposals are at an …

We wouldn’t blame Gov. Joe Manchin if he found himself scratching his head over the reasoning of some legislators who rejected his suggestion for a new tax earlier this year.
Manchin had suggested new taxes on high-voltage lines used to transmit electricity through West Virginia to other states. Reportedly, some legislators decided last winter that they didn’t want to pass such a bill without obtaining approval from the state Supreme Court – in advance.
That is ridiculous, of course. The court system, from magistrate judges on up to the Supreme Court of …

The California Public Utilities Commission will host a public hearing Friday for a proposed project by Southern California Edison to construct a nine-mile subtransmission line from Newbury Park to Moorpark through the Santa Rosa Valley.
The meeting will be held at 1:30 p.m. in the Board of Supervisor’s hearing room at the Ventura County Government Center, 800 S. Victoria Ave., Ventura.
The proposed 66-kilovolt subtransmission line would lace through the Santa Rosa Valley, running across new towers from Edison’s Moorpark substation at the northwest corner of Gabbert Road and Los Angeles Avenue …