GREAT FALLS – Developer Tonbridge Power Inc., says it has reached agreements with four Montana landowners who had objected to a transmission line that would cross their property.
Richard Opper, director of the Department of Environmental Quality, says the settlements end any holdups to the construction of the power line in Montana.
The planned $140 million transmission line would run between Lethbridge, Alberta and Great Falls.
Some Montana landowners objected to having the power line cross their property diagonally and to the use of wider H-frame poles. In response, the Montana Alberta Tie Line project reduced the number of miles of diagonal crossings and replaced some of the H-frames with single poles.
An appeal of the project by property owners in Alberta was heard by the Alberta Court of Appeal in January. A decision is pending.