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Rappahannock corridor is their preferred route, but the SCC will decide which plan is most logical.
“We are fighting ours as if it’s the only one ... to convince them this has no place in Rappahannock County,” said Monira Rifaat, who owns Manor Farm near Sperryville and is heading RLEFs Power Line Task Force.
McCarthy said Dominion came up with the alternate routes to “get the General Assembly off their backs” about the 1-66 corridor and get the politicians in Richmond back to work on re-regulating the state’s electric industry in a way that will guarantee Dominion’s profit margin.
Don Loock, of the Piedmont Environmental Council, said PEC will continue to fight Dominion’s plans to build any new power line corridors in the region.
“Dominion has not shown they have a need for this,” Loock said, explaining that the new power lines are a way for the company to ship more electricity from coal-fired plants in the Ohio Valley to metropolitan areas on the East Coast.
Loock said the irony of Dominion’s proposal to build what they think is a less controversial corridor is only serving to drum up more opposition in the region.
“Dominion right now I think is testing the waters ... and we need to show them it’s hot,” he said. “Dominion would have
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