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Catherine Scott, the director of land conservation for the Piedmont Environmental Council and a Rappahannock landowner, said that the county has placed more than 270,000 acres under scenic easement. “This enhances clean air and clean water,” she said. “This county has placed a high value on land conservation and we don’t want to see that destroyed in an instant.”
Caleb Jaffe, am attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Charlottesville, said that the DOE’s action without an Environmental Impact Statement would set “a bad precedent for future actions.” He said such decisions should lie with the states, in governmental bodies like the State Corporation Commission,, not the Department of Energy or Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, known as “FERC.”
“We are not here to debate the merits of the Energy Policy Act of 2005,” the DOE’s Meyer told the crowd. “We acre not here to debate the merits of proposed transmission projects, or of nontransmission solutions to con
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