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creasing rates and property owners against ugly, dangerous and totally unnecessary new powerlines. In their place we should and one day will have commissioners who, as already charged by law, will represent the interest of all consumers and property owners instead of the power interests.
The decision is particularly reprehensible because there is absolutely no way—repeat, no way— that the construction of this vast new wound across our scenic countryside can be justified in terms of need. There is actually a surplus of energy now, as reported by the powerlines themselves, and Vepco’s predictions of future demand have been scaled down from a growth figure of ten per cent a year to six and a half percent; yet the facts show that present growth is near zero. Thus we have authorization of a tremendously expensive new transmission facility that not only is not needed now or in the foreseeable future but will cost so much that consumers already heavily burdened with skyrocketing rates will have to pay
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