Capon Valley Coalition

In Virginia, Allegheny Power’s partner, Dominion Power, changed its preferred route because of opposition lead by one of our allies, the Piedmont Environmental Council.

Now folks along the new route are just as outraged as we are. Here’s what the Rappahannock Times reported yesterday (Feb. 21):

If Dominion Virginia Power officials think they have eased opposition to electric transmission corridors in the region by diverting a planned line from northern Fauquier County to a new route that dips into Rappahannock County, they have another thing coming.

More than 50 people crammed into the Rappahannock County Library on Monday to organize opposition to Dominion’s proposal to cut an additional 500,000-volt electric transmission corridor next to an existing string of power lines in the eastern part of the county.

Concerned citizens, environmental activists and county officials turned out to the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection’s monthly meeting in search of answers about the power company’s proposal and strategies that could prevent it from being built.

The questions were many, but the answers were few at the meeting, because Dominion officials have not disclosed much information about their plans for the corridor.

You can read the entire article here.

Moral of the story for Allegheny/Dominion: Stop now. Go back to the drawing board. Listen to us. It’s really not that hard.