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By Don Del Rosso
Times-Democrat Staff Writer
He likened it to combat.
“This is a tough battle,” Piedmont Environmental Council president Chris Miller said of the campaign to defeat Dominion Virginia Power’s proposal for a 500,000-volt transmission line through the northern Piedmont. “If We do everything we can do, we can win it.”
About 320 people last Sunday attended a PEC-sponsored “seminar” in Fauquier High School’s auditorium to learn more about Dominion and Allegheny Power’s plan for a 500,000-volt line to serve Northern Virginia and PEC’s multi-pronged strategy to kill it.
The 40-mile Virginia portion of the line would pass through Frederick, Warren, Fauquier, Loudoun and Prince William counties. It would link power substations near Winchester and Areola in Loudoun.
Dominion’s potential alignments attempt to skirt land under Virginia Outdoors Foundation conservation easements, which protect such property from further development. Still, the proposed transmission line would destroy or deunage agricultur
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