[at-l] Not hiking related Now?

[s.landis at comcast.net (Steve Landis)]

greyowl@rcn.com wrote:
> Well Alpen Rose out spent the enviromentalist and won the right to build the 
> track.  To add insult to injury they asked for a 3.2 million dollar grant from the 
> state to build the track.  So far no money has been forthcoming from the state 
> (the state budget stunk las year and is not in better shape this year).  there has 
> been a fair amount of public outrage over the trackandit may not be built until 
> sometime later.
> 
> The more immediate threat to the AT are plans to build one, maybe two power 
> transmission lines across the AT. Steve Landis may have a better link, but look 
> at the article below: 
> 
> http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/state/all-
> a1_5electricmar19,0,4315398.story
> 
> Grey Owl

I'll start with a shorter link for the one you provided 
http://tinyurl.com/o4aux then there's this one 
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/13984676.htm

Steve