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generously donated over $100,000 for the cause. Tbgether with several other environmental organizations and the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors, RLEP appealed the SCC ruling before the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, but in March 1976 the court ruled in favor of Vepco. The unsuccessful outcome of the appeal was not a surprise since the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals had never before ruled against a power company.
Although the battle over the construction of the high-voltage powerlines took up most of RLEFs energies and resources 35 years ago, the organization was also working on other issues that, not surprisingly, very much resemble the environmental problems we are confronted with today. These included land planning and zoning, with consideration of their environmental impacts; farmland protection; environmental education; and improvement of the county’s local telephone service to enable direct dialing. Another hot issue was a proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build the
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