Nearly six months after lawsuits were filed when a Garfield County farm couple refused to allow surveyors onto their land for the Cimarron Link transmission line across northern Oklahoma, a similar story is being played out on the other end of the U.S.
More than 100 property owners in Central Maryland have done the same–refused to allow power company PSEG onto their land to conduct a survey for a proposed Piedmont power line project. So the utility went to federal court with a 53-page filing seeking a judge’s ruling allowing it access to the property.
In the Oklahoma case, Cimarron Link sued David L. Bryan and his wife Linda C. Bryan last November after they refused to allow surveyors onto their farm land near Enid. But by the end of December 2024, Invenergy, developer of the Cimarron Link transmission line, decided to drop its lawsuit.
Erika Huffman, Invenergy public affairs director in Oklahoma City told the Stillwater News Press, “While we remain confident in the merits of the request for survey rights, the Cimarron Link team is focused on continuing our work with landowners to secure voluntary and compensated survey access permission. Voluntary dismissal of the survey access case in Garfield County will allow the Cimarron Link team more time to engage directly with landowners to obtain permission to survey and to communicate with the community about the project.”
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