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Clean Line Energy Sets Open Houses to Discuss Wind Energy Transmission Line Project
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:16:13 CDT
Clean Line Energy is hosting a series of public open house meetings with Oklahoma community members and landowners to introduce the Plains & Eastern Clean Line. During these meetings, the Clean Line team will discuss potential routing options for the high voltage direct current electric transmission line project and provide the public an opportunity to provide feedback.
Clean Line believes that public involvement is a crucial component of the transmission line development process and has identified a network of potential routes based on an extensive feedback from community leaders, landowners, government agencies, conservation and non-governmental organizations, as well as environmental and engineering data collected during more than two years.
The public open house meetings will be held in communities near the network of potential routes in order to provide an opportunity for landowners and community leaders to learn about the project firsthand, ask questions and provide input.
The Plains & Eastern Clean Line will deliver up to 3,500 megawatts of clean power from western Oklahoma, northern Texas, and southwestern Kansas to utilities and customers in Tennessee, Arkansas, and other markets in the Mid-South and the Southeast. The clean energy will be transported via an approximately 750-mile overhead high voltage direct current transmission line.
The Plains & Eastern Clean Line will make possible approximately $7 billion worth of investments in new wind energy projects in the Oklahoma Panhandle and surrounding region. In addition to the new wind farm investments, the Plains & Eastern Clean Line project will cost approximately $2 billion with around $1 billion of investment in Oklahoma.
The Plains & Eastern Clean Line will provide broad economic growth throughout the project area and supply affordable clean energy to millions of customers in the mid-south and southeast United States.
In Oklahoma, the project will create the opportunity for thousands of jobs to construct and operate the wind farms and transmission line and allow for tens of millions of upfront sales tax and millions in annual property taxes for Oklahoma.
In addition, Oklahoma industrial manufacturers will likely see increased demand for their products and services with the growth of the wind industry in the state. The construction of the Plains & Eastern Clean Line will lead to increased employment for those companies and others who provide goods and services in the wind energy and transmission sectors.
Times and Locations for Plains & Eastern Clean Line Oklahoma Public Open House Meetings:
Oct. 9
GUYMON
Pickle Creek Center, 822 NE 6th Street, Guymon, OK
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
BEAVER
Beaver County Fairgrounds - Commercial Building, Beaver, OK
1107 Douglas Avenue, Beaver, OK
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
Oct. 10
WOODWARD
Woodward Convention Center, 3401 Centennial Lane, Woodward, OK
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
FAIRVIEW
Northwest Technology Center, 801 Vo-tech Drive, Fairview, OK
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
Oct. 11
ENID
Cherokee Strip Conference Center, 123 W. Maine Street, Enid, OK
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
STILLWATER
Meditations Catering & Banquet Center, 1205 North Country Club Road, Stillwater, OK
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
Oct. 12
BRISTOW
Elks Lodge, Hwy 66 and Country Club Road, P.O. Box 1214, Bristow, OK
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
Oct. 15
OKMULGEE
Okmulgee County Fairgrounds, 1901 Oklahoma, Okmulgee, OK
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
Oct. 16
MUSKOGEE
Muskogee Civic Center, Room C, 425 Boston Street, Muskogee, OK
7:00 - 9:00 a.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
SALLISAW
Indian Capital Technology Center, 401 E. Houser Industrial Blvd, Sallisaw, OK
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Plains & Eastern Clean Line Public Open House
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