There will be a CARE (Citizens Advocating Responsible Energy) on Friday, November 16, 2007 at 7:30, at the Montville Community Center.

Everyone interested in helping with the effort to persuade the Ohio Power Siting Board to move the transmission line to a pre-existing corridor is encouraged to attend.

The plan is for CARE to be chartered to oppose the corridor described in CEI's application, and encourage the use of a pre-existing civil corridor for the transmission line. State Route 11 and the Rachel Route/bike path are both pre-existing civil corridors. Both the Preferred Route (over-land/528) and the Alternate Route (Clay Street) described in the application are two routes within the same unacceptable corridor, so by definition, CARE is opposed to both routes.

The central problem with the corridor described in the application is that it is blasted through neighborhoods, farms, and other places where no corridor exists, i.e., CEI wants to make a new corridor just for their transmission line. That is not acceptable, and CARE will do what it takes to keep that new corridor from happening.