The Carroll County Board of Commissioners filed an amicus brief in support of the landowners currently fighting the controversial Piedmont Reliability Project in court.

In the newly filed brief, the board is urging the court to reverse a ruling granting the project developers access to the property owners' lands for site surveys.

PSEG, the New Jersey-based developer of this proposed project, seeks to run 70 miles of overhead transmission lines through three Maryland counties -- Baltimore, Carroll, and Frederick.

PSEG says the project is needed to ease congestion on the power grid and prevent regional energy shortages.

PJM Interconnection, which operates the power grid in several northeastern states, says that without the project, the region could face blackouts and voltage collapse

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