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against this unnecessary environmental damage.”
“Those planning to attend make a note now on their calendar so that they will not make other plans for that date,” he said.
Mr. Irwin also announced the the Conservation Council of Virginia organization of forty-four conservation and environmental groups, totaling approximately 200,000 members went on record at a meeting May 16, opposing the proposed high-powered transmission line.
In the unanimously approved resolution, the Council asked that the State Corporation Commission, the Governor’s Council on Environment and Governor Holton declare a moatorium on all proposed electric transmission lines which would require a new right-of-way until such time as the state established a board empowered to grant due process of law to all interested parties, assess environmental impact, and, if determined necessary, restrict,, such construction to existing transmission corridors or underground.
The Council’s resolution also made specific mention of the proposed Rappahannock line and gave the following chief reasons
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