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on Western Prince William and Fauquier County!
THE same narrow approach to “impact” has also been used in regard to the powerlines Vepco wants to string all across Rappahannock. Those huge towers, by themselves, won’t cause all that much environmental havoc, theproponents of “progress” maintain, nor will the clear-cut corridors underneath the lines be all that objectionable they say! The broader “impact” they ignore, the visual pollution that would be visited upon one of the most beautiful corners of the world, for miles and miles beyond the relatively narrow confines of the powerlines themselves.
It is just that sort of broad impact which should be the ultimate goal of the EIS procedure. Instead, we get reports apparently prepared by “experts” in blinkers, steadfastly taking the most constricted view they can of monstrous highways and powerlines which could have more impact on the Piedmont than anything that has transpired here since the Indians started burning off forest land some 300 years ago to create more buffalo grazing grounds.
And the trouble with highway and powerline “impacts” is that they may be more long lasting than created by the Indians. After a while, the charred fields turned green again. It won’t happen with asphalt parking lots and horizon to horizon subdivisions, strung together by super highways and powerline networks.
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