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by John H. Arundel
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Opponents of Dominion Virginia Power’s plan to string transmission lines across the Piedmont’s placid and historic landscape aided their wagons around Washington, D.C. Tuesday.
They provided federal regulators with impassioned narratives about how their lives would be impacted by the 500kv power lines and the huge towers that would hold them.
The outspoken crowd started arriving early for the Department of Energy hearing at a Crystal City hotel ballroom across from the Pentagon. Some arrived in clean power cars, carpools and rented buses.
Speakers ran the economic gamut, from wealthy landowners in crisp blue suits to farmers in John Deere caps and blue jeans. None of the speakers were inarticulate or without emotion.
“Tve been promised by the experts at Dominion Power that my land is a target for the 15story power lines they propose to build,” said Judy Ahnquist of Marshall, a retired widow who supports herself by renting out the six houses and apartments on her 50-acre farm in Fauquier County. “Two local realtors told me that my property is worthless right now because no one will buv it.”
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