Capon Valley Coalition

Lynn Golemon writes:

On Tuesday, March 13 in Romney, much information was shared during a meeting between H J Wratchford, Grady Bradfield, Bill and Lynn Golemon, and Mary Jo Brown, our area representative from Governor Manchin’s office,

Governor Manchin clearly needs to understand the extent of the extensive devastation which would be caused by these overhead power lines. As our area representative, Mary Jo will be hand delivering information which we are providing to the governor’s office, and to the West Virginia Public Service Commission. We are currently putting together the information requested by those two offices.

The MOST IMPORTANT thing that each of you can do is to write to the governor’s office, to the Public Service Commission, and to each of our state legislators with your outrage and concerns – the letters do not have to be specific, but THEY NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU. You can find all of the e-mail addresses as well as physical addresses on the Take Action page.

We realize that this all takes your valuable time, however, if you do not do this, we lose our clout as representatives of the Capon Valley Coalition. We are spending many hours on this each and every day, and we need your support.

We are definitely having a positive effect. Please support us. We need to stop this power line now, or it is just the beginning of an eventual ‘power line highway’ into the metro D.C. area.

We are late in reporting this good news from Hardy County. We apologize, but figure good news is good no matter how late.

On March 9, the Cumberland Times-News reported:

MOOREFIELD - The Hardy County Commission is the second West Virginia county to go on record opposing a proposed high-voltage power line through the region.

Commissioners Roger Champ, J.R. Keplinger and Stanley Moyer voted unanimously Tuesday to sign a resolution opposing a proposed 500-kilovolt power line to be constructed by Allegheny Energy through Hardy, Hampshire and Grant counties.

Hampshire County previously announced its opposition to the project.

The commissioners have received numerous complaints, both written and in person, concerning the project over the last several weeks.

Representatives of the utility were invited to present an overview of the project at the meeting Tuesday.

Our own Grady Bradfield and Bill Golemon are both quoted in the piece. And you can get a flavor for Allegheny Power’s arguments from it as well.

You can read the entire piece at Times-News.com.

NOT THE WHOLE ARTICLE

You may wonder why we do not quote the entire newspaper article when we write about a news item.

Three reasons really:

1. It makes for very long blog entries.
2. We try to give you the most important news here and point those who want more information to the proper place to get it.
3. While putting an entire article on our Web site might not violate the Copyright laws, it’s not neighborly to take someone’s hard work and not point at their Web site.
4. (I know I said three reasons, but I just wanted to note that when we DO put what is essentially a photocopy of a newspaper article on our site in a PDF file, we always include the newspaper masthead to give proper credit. And we only put copies up when we cannot find a link back to the source.)