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By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer.
A new player is entering the fracas over Dominion Virginia Power’s proposal to string more 500,000-volt power lines through Culpeper, Fauquier, Prince William and Rappahannock counties.
The group, called the Power-line Landowners Alliance, is made up of citizens that own property under or near Dominion’s existing 500,000volt electric corridor.
“Someone needs to represent the landowners,” PLA Board Member Paul Farmer said at the alliance’s debut meeting on July 3. “This should not happen here for a variety of cultural, historical, economic and environmental reasons.”
More than 80 people showed up for the PLA’s first gathering at the Flint Hill Fire Hall, but the group has the potential to grow much more. According to information from Dominion, the proposed corridor crosses 442 different properties along its four-county route.
Dominion needs to get permission from the State Corporation Commission before building the new corridor. The first of the SCC’s 12 public hearings on the matter is scheduled for July 26 at Fauquier High School in Warrenton.
The PLA is registered to speak before the SCC during its final hearing in Richmond. The alliance has hired Richmond attorney Charles Hundley to represent it before the commission. Hundley is a former SCC examiner.
The PLA plans to complement other organizations, such as the Piedmont Environmental Council and some affected counties, that are opposing Dominion’s plan.
“If the landowners don’t care and show the SCC they care, then PEC is going to have a harder time,” said Jim Moorman, the PLA’s principal liaison with counsel.
PEC is opposing the power-line
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