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EXPRESSIONS of dismay greeted the news that the Virginia State Corporation Commission has given its stamp of approval to some giant, hideous powerline projects which will slash through some of the most beautiful countryside in Virginia, or anywhere.
And rightly so. Never, in our opinion, did the power companies demonstrate convincingly that they couldn’t just as well use existing pcwerline corridors, a concept that has received support among environmental agencies throughout the nation. Furthermore, the bulldozing of new powerline corridors at a time when actual electric use has been declining, and growth expectations subjected to drastic revision, seems even more questionable.
But in Virginia, what public utility firms want, they get, whether it’s higher rates (direct or disguised), or preferential treatment, or pollution variances. It happens all the time, and there is no great expectation that it will stop happening. Powerline corridors and power rates, as several Fauquier officials noted with a shrug, are just something Vir
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