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“If it doesn’t go down the 1-66 corridor, it’s going through Rappahannock County,” said Irwin, who added that the current problem could be solved if Dominion built more wires on the towers in an existing corridor.
Dominion could put four wires instead of two per hanger on the transmission towers built in the 1970s, Irwin said. He said new lines are lighter in weight than those built in the ’70s, so the towers could easily withstand the weight of twice as many wires.
Irwin said the maps PJM distributed at a Dec. 4 meeting in Front Royal did not show existing corridors. The illustrations only showed proposed corridors between existing substations, he said, and therefore did not illustrate the possibilities of expanding capacity in corridors that have already been built.
RLEP members also said they are worried about the ramifications on easement law if any land set aside for conservation is disturbed for the construction of a new power line corridor.
Officials from Allegheny, Dominion and PJM have said the new power line corridor is necessary to meet rising energy demands in Northern Virginia. But Don Loock, PEC’s land conservation officer for Clarke and Rappahannock counties, said the true motivation behind the proposed transmission lines is to transport relatively inexpensive coal-fueled power from the Ohio Valley to Northeastern states.
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