The latest battle over the proposed Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project comes down to restricting landowners from hunting.

The proposed 67-mile, high-voltage transmission line that’s slated to be built through hundreds of private properties across three Maryland counties is intended to power data centers in Virginia.

Joanne Frederick, president of the opposition group Stop MPRP, blasted PSEG’s latest legal move aimed at landowners along the proposed powerline’s path. The New Jersey-based utility is asking for a federal court order to ban hunting by property owners on their own property during stretches of time when PSEG survey crews might be on the land doing work.

“It’s just another escalation,” Frederick told WBAL-TV 11 News. “(It affects) agricultural operations (that) try to cull

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