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Dominion
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If the new corridor is built through Rappahannock, it will require up to 100 additional feet of right-of-way. In places of existing scenic easements, McCarthy said Dominion officials told him they will not seek any more right-of-way. However, they said engineering constraints will prevent them from building the additional corridor entirely within the existing right-of-way for the full 13 miles that runs through Rappahannock.
The approval process will begin to roll in April, when the SCC appoints a hearing examiner to gather information about the proposed transmission corridors. Citizens will have opportunities at public hearings to submit their opinions and other materials to the examiner, who will use the information to make a suggestion to the SCC.
Fauquier County supervisor Chester Stribling predicts the battle will get “really, really ugly.”
Dominion has made a grave, strategic miscalculation if it believes residents in southern Fauquier will “accept” quietly the utility’s proposal to build a new transmission line through their part of the county, Stribling said.
“Well fight this thing until it’s over,” said Stribling. “Every time we turn around they’re (Dominion) putting a line on a pole down here.”
Dominion insists the proposed line would serve Northern Virginia’s short- and long-term electricity needs. The utility wants the line operating by 2011, otherwise it believes Northern Virginia could begin experiencing “rolling blackouts.”
But Dominion’s critics claim the line primarily would serve the energy-starved Northeast.
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