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outmoded processes which make no extra effort to properly inform the owners of the lands involved. It seems to me there is graphic proof of this in the following quotation, the words of a top expert of vast experience in these matters and a member of the Fe^ral Power Commission:
“Today’s public concern for environmental values co-exists with an unprecedented public DEMAND for participation in nearly all facets of utility decision-making. Today, it is not uncommon for bills to be introduced in congress to establish statutory consumers counsel to intervene before administrative agencies-vocal residents opposing the routeing of utility lines through their neighborhood are no longer a surprise. . .More and more people are insisting today on a halt to construction of electric power facilities.”
This official cites dramatic examples of confrontations in which the people have won resounding vindication with the aid of government agencies. To quote him further: “not long ago this kind of regulatory action would have been challenged by some as outrageous. But to-day it is not, because most people believe that exercise of responsible jurisdiction over public service facilities is an essential step in the development if comprehensive planning procedures which will benefit not inly the public, but the utilities is well. . Jt is clear that the >rocedures must be developed to )ridge the chasm that now exists >etween system planning and environmental planning. And vith establishment of these irocedures, it is believed that nany RIGHTS-WA Y DIFFICULTIES of the past will le swept aside.” In the name of God who has avored us with residence in one if the best and most beautiful I ilaces in this world COME TO I mis PUBLIC MEETING wheniy akes place. Witch'for the datenin he Rappahannock News. Come? nd help put Rappahannock inC
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