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landowners in Flint Hill who look up at the gargantuan transmission towers in their backyards and wonder why research and development wasn’t used to find a way for Washington to generate its own power needs?
Email the writer at smiller@timespapers. com
Power line points of view
While the SCC public hearings are over, this proposed power line and its potential damage to the Piedmont area are of great concern. In the coming weeks, the Rappahannock News will be printing pieces - many of them from residents who spoke at the public hearings - to keep this issue in the forefront of your attention.
In the meantime, written comments on the application may be submitted by January 29, 2008. All correspondence should be sent to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, and refer to case number PUE-2007-00020. Interested persons desiring to submit comments electronically may do so at the SCC’s website: http:/ / www.scc.virginia.gov/caseinfo.htm. Click on the PUBLIC COMMENTS/NOTICES link and then the SUBMITCOMMENTS button for case number PUE-2007-00020. '
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