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power line corridors larger than 230,000 volts.
Irwin said the measure did not turn out to matter much, because the SCC and Virginia Court of Appeals have never ruled against a power company.
The SCC approved the Vepco corridor in May 1975. The result can still be seen today in Rappahannock in the string of towers that run for 13 miles from Chester Gap to Amissville.
“Despite the merits of our case, we lost before the State Corporation Commission and upon appeal to the Virginia Court of Appeals,” Irwin said. “Interestingly, the merits of the same case won in Connecticut, New Jersey, South Carolina and Florida.”
Irwin said the anti-power line cases in those other states used the same expert witnesses and resulted in defeats for power companies.
RLEP’s current
stance
The new power line corri-' dor proposed by Allegheny, Dominion and PJM is not slated to pass through any part of Rappahannock, but RLEP is preparing for that possibility.
At the organization’s meeting on Dec. 18, several members voiced concern that opposition in Fauquier and Loudoun counties may scare the power companies into shifting the corridor south into Rappahannock.
“We want to start getting opposition going here,” said Cory Caulfield, co-chair of RLEPs Power Line Task Force. “It’s not out of the question that they’re looking at Rappahannock as a back
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