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scenic rivers, 10 Civil War battlefields, 17,000 acres in historic districts, 8,000 acres in state management reserves, 1,800 acres of state park land and 1,000 acres of county park land.
Fauquier’s population stands at “just over 60,000” and thus isn’t “a significant contributor to congestion on the Northern Virginia (power) grid,” Atherton said.
To the contrary, Fauquier has been “part of the solution to the area’s energy needs” because it approved two natural gasfueled generators (near Remington) that operate during the hottest and coldest days, he said. Many parts of Fauquier remain unchanged since George Washington surveyed them, Atherton said.
“This is not by accident, but the result of many decades of public and private efforts to preserve this historic and beautiful part of” Virginia, he concluded. “If the end result of these efforts is that the county has become the corridor of least resistance for the transmission line of power to the Mid-Atlantic, this seems both unfair and unnecessary”
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