„We are waiting for the court to fix the date of the hearing. At the same time, we are preparing a complaint to the European Commission. We trying to change the state's attitude to people who will live near the facility,“ it quoted Ruta Cimakauskiene, the head of the Rudamina Community Association and a local businesswoman, as saying.
The Lithuanian Supreme Administrative Court on Feb. 6 ordered to reopen the hearing of the case.
The town's community has been demanding to change the route of the interconnection since 2010 when they learned that a high voltage power transmission line will be built across this little urbanized region.
In Poland, only two of the ten municipalities through which the line will run have approved the project so far.
Plans call for building the power interconnection, estimated to cost more than a billion litas (EUR 300 mln), by 2015.
