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Christie speaks out
The following is the testimony of Sperryville resident Katherine Christie concerning the proposed 500 kV Dominion line at the Virginia State Corporation Commission hearing held at Fauquier High School in Warrenton an July 26,2007
I come not to speak for the business community - as most of the opening speakers did here today en masse — but rather for Virginia citizens of which I am one.
Dominion Power’s Ohio Valley Plants were grandfathered under the Clean Air Act at 1970’s pollution levels. The idea was then, that the plants would be obsolete and phased out of operation in 15 year. Most of these plants should have been shut down thirty years ago instead, they are still with us. It is these “dirty” power plants that PJM (regional transmission authority) now wants to tap for northeast consumers. Why? It is much cheaper for the power industry to continue to rely on some of its dirtiest plants than to utilize cleaner generation energy plants located closer to northeast customer demand.
But when public health costs and environmental impacts are considered, is this truly the cheapest solution? Maybe for the power companies and regional transmission authorities.. .but not for individual citizen taxpayers in VA
For the last 30 years, neither federal nor state regulators have seriously intervened to protect consumers and require full compliance with the Clean Air Act. The power line issue is where the State of Virginia needs to step forward and exert its authority in the interest of its citizens over those of the investor owners of Dominion Power.
See TESTIMONY, Page AS
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