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Her mend, Aileen Laing, sniffed when asked if she learned anything.
“Are you kidding?” Laing said. “Tve never heard so much propaganda in one small space in my life.”
Monira Rifaat of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection’s Power Line Task Force said, “The format is to divide people into smaller groups so there’s no massive onslaught on Dominion.”
Dominion held the meeting as an “open house,” where representatives gave out information but didn’t take public comments. The public-comment phase will come when the energy company submits its plans to the State Corporation Commission later this month.
“Then that all becomes public record,” spokesman Chet Wade said. “It really doesn’t become an official event until we file. This is just something we do on top of that to get as much information out there as possible.”
The possible power line represents part of the TransAllegheny Interstate Line, a proposed 210 miles of transmission lines from southwestern Pennsylvania to West Virginia to Northern Virginia. The total project will cost $850 million.
The Richmond-based energy company claims the line is needed to prevent “rolling blackouts” in Northern Virginia.
The current plan has the power line running through an existing transmission corridor for five miles in the northern tip of Culpeper County. Dominion has said they would need about 100 additional feet of land in Culpeper, Fauquier and Rappa
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