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THE ANNUAL BUSINESS SESSION followed, with committee reports received from Mrs. Day, Mrs. Scherschel, George Davis, Art Wright, Mrs. Dorothy Davis, Bob Dennis, and others. Irwin noted that the RLEP’s Potomac Edison committee had been disbanded because “it has done its work” — helped effect an abandonment of the company’s plan to stretch a high voltage powerline right down the middle of the county. It was this plan, indeed, that provided the RLEP with its organizational impetus.
“However,” Irwin added, “it was necessary to form a Virginia Electric and Power committee almost immediately, to deal with a plan which is equally objectionable, if not more, and no more necessary than the Potomac Edison plan.”
Irwin said “a committee of nine lawyers” is working on the Vepco powerline problem, and he said additional support is coming from Fauquier, Culpeper and Warren Counties. New state legislature legislation dealing with such things as the environmental impact of powerlines will also be helpful. Irwin said.
George Davis told of the organization’s efforts against “an invasion by an army of surveyors,” and felt that the restraints on surveying activities ordered by Rappahannock Circuit Court Judge Rayner Snead “were much better than we had anticipated,” and “rather a landmark decision.”
Concluded Davis: “We need electricity but we don’t need large numbers of powerlines everywhere the power companies say they do. . .”
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