REGION
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 2022
THE OBSERVER — A3
Idaho Power gains access for surveys, withdraws lawsuits
One Union County
case remains open
By JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — Boise,
Idaho-based Idaho Power
has withdrawn all of the 10
lawsuits it fi led this winter
against Baker County land-
owners seeking access to
their property to do sur-
veys related to the proposed
Boardman-to-Hemingway
transmission line project.
Attorneys for the com-
pany fi led the civil petitions
between mid-December
2021 and early February
2022.
Idaho Power was asking
a judge to order the land-
owners to allow access to
their properties for a variety
of surveys, including
looking for certain wildlife
and plant species.
The company sought
to dismiss the lawsuits
because “we were able to
obtain rights-of-entry out
of court from all of the
Baker County landowners
we requested it from,”
Sven Berg, an Idaho Power
spokesperson, said.
That was also the case
with most of Idaho Pow-
er’s lawsuits fi led in other
counties in Eastern Oregon,
including Union, Umatilla
and Morrow, Berg said.
In fi ve cases, however,
there were court hearings,
he said. Four of those were
in Union County, and one
in Morrow County.
In two cases, a judge
granted Idaho Power a
default judgment granting
the company access for
surveys.
Three others went to
trial, Berg said. In two
cases the court granted
Idaho Power access for
surveys.
One case, in Union
County, remains open. The
landowner in that case is
516 Ranch Partnership.
Idaho Power has been
working since 2007 on
the Boardman-to-Hem-
ingway project, a 293-
mile, 500-kilovolt line
that would run from near
Boardman to Hemingway,
who combined own about
60 separate parcels.
Berg said Idaho Power
does not pay for access
to private property to do
pre-construction surveys.
In each petition fi led
in court, Idaho Power’s
attorneys, Timothy Hel-
frich and Zach Olson, of
the Yturri Rose fi rm in
Ontario, state that either
the company or its con-
tractor, Cornerstone
Energy Inc. 21, acting on
the company’s behalf, had
“contacted the Respon-
dent several times to
request access to survey,
test, and sample the Prop-
erty. Respondent has
not granted Idaho Power
access to the Property.”
“Because construc-
tion on the B2H project is
scheduled to start as early
as 2023, Idaho Power must
begin surveying, testing,
and sampling the Property
in 2022,” the petitions state.
Berg said Idaho Power
typically sends three let-
ters to each property
owner before fi ling peti-
tions in court.
Baker City Herald, File
The proposed Boardman-to-Hemingway power line would follow the route of an existing line that crosses
Highway 86 between Baker City and the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center.
near Murphy in Owyhee
County, Idaho.
Although sections of
the proposed route run
through public property —
Idaho Power has received
permission from the fed-
eral government to do so
— the line, as proposed,
would also cross several
dozen parcels of private
land in multiple counties,
including Baker, Union,
Wallowa and Morrow in
Oregon.
Idaho Power would have
to pay private landowners
for an easement to build
the power line across their
property. This would be a
one-time payment, not an
annual lease, according to
www.boardmanto-
hemingway.org.
Berg said the line would
aff ect about 30 private land-
owners in Baker County,
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Pendleton. Darryl Abling, manager of the Pendleton drone test
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