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EVEN THE METROPOLITAN papers have noticed that a large number of citizens in this general area aren’t overjoyed by the prospect of giant powerlines being stretched through their countryside _ to serve the air conditioners, electric toothbrushes, all electric suburbs of the eastern seaboard corridor.
Everybody has noticed, it seems, except the people in charge of things for Virginia Electric & Power Company. We blame the people in charge because someone must be setting the example for the boorish, destructive, heedless surveying teams and other advance guards — shock troops might be a better description — who have been trampling over the local hills and local property owners’ rights in recent weeks.
Things have come to a pretty bad pass when a judge feels it necessary to lecture the attorneys for one of the largest corporations in the-State of Virginia about the necessity for complying with the letter of a court order, but also with the spirit of that order.
IT’S A PRETTY SAD reflection on that corporation’s attitude when its surveyors, under court decree not to chop down large trees, cynically carve out possibly fatally crippling hunks of tree trunks, just so they can get a clear “sight line” for one of those monstrous powerline towers.
No wonder everybody is upset. The real wonder is Vepco’s apparent unconcern for the feelings of citizens in Rappahannock, Fauquier and Warren Counties, and points beyond. □
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