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Welcome news
WHILE IT APPEARS that the fight is by no means over to save Rappahannock County from the ugly scars of additional huge, high voltage powerline corridors, the Pepco announcement that it is dropping its Riverton-Boston request is welcome news.
Also of note is the comment by Phil Irwin of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection that Pepco’s action “points up the possibility that landowners can have something to say about the future of their environment.”
Too often in modern American life^, citizens have a habit of shrugging helplessly, and announcing that “they” will have their way, no matter what he thinks or does. “You can’t fight City Hall,” is one way of putting it.
Well , you can — especially when, as Irwin says, “citizens stick together.”
RAPPAHANNOCK citizens are by no means alone in their concern for their surroundings. Our neighbors in Fauquier are also upset about powerlines, and road projects, and “development” schemes which could radically upset their lovely county. So are people in Loudoun, whose Supervisors are in court because of their contention that it is ^hey — and the people of Loudoun — who should make decisions on whether there is to be development, and when, and that these are not things which the developers can decide for themselves.
Let’s all take heart in Pepco’s announcement, and concentrate now on Vepco — and all others who would bulldoze us and right-of-way these beautiful old hills to death. □
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