The Carroll County Board of Commissioners filed an action of opposition against a move made by those in charge of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project.

The proposed project would create a nearly 70-mile, high-voltage transmission line spanning across Baltimore, Frederick and Carroll counties.

In June, the group behind the project, the Public Service Enterprise Group, was granted access to private properties, without landowners’ consent, in order to conduct environmental surveys and testing.

“(The environmental surveyors) were very respectful, they kind of staged in one of our little pull-off areas. They kind of told us what they were in here to do,” said Jim Cook, who has owned his farm in Carroll County for 35 years. “(But) to work all your life, sweat, and to have somebody come i

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