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The nationwide trend is downward as consumers have learned to turn off lights, reduce heat and take other sensible conservation measures in their homes.
It is my understanding— and I hope I am wrong— that the Rappahannock League for - Environmental Protection, of which I am a member, and other environmental groups and their attorneys in Richmond did not dare challenge Vepco’s contention that the need for greater electrical output and transmission is indisputable. I beleive it must not only be challenged but demolished by the citing of actual facts—the dramatic decrease in the use of such energy, which is apt to continue for years to come.
ALSO, BiU 664, drafted in the offices of the SCC itself at the request of the comtnissioners, swept through the state legislature this session. This measure, now on the Governor’s desk for his signature or rejection, is quite simple—and lethal.
It would in one stroke take from all local bodies the right to haul utility firms in and make them justify the alleged “public necessity” for scarrSee
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