Energy News Network: Minnesota utilities work to ease path for Northland transmission line
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The third powerline was the last straw for Marla Britton.
Her and her husband’s 40-acre farm near Brainerd, Minnesota, is already framed by electrical wires on the east and south. When she learned of plans for a new project running along the north end of her property, she took action.
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