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By Don Del Rosso
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
He called the report a “sneak preview” of the Warrenton nonprofit group’s “full case” against the proposed 500,000-volt transmission line through the Piedmont.
Titled “How Dominion and Allegheny Got it Wrong,” the 23page Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) study seeks to systematically present “the other side” of the story to Dominion Virginia Power’s arguments for the line, staffer Robert G. Marmet said.
PEC consultants prepared the study.
Marmet played a key role in editing the document.
“We just don’t want” Dominion and its partner, Allegheny Power’s application for the line before the State Corporation Commission to go unchallenged, he said.
“We don’t want the SCC not to have the benefit of” hearing a contrary view of the line’s need, said Marmet, who joined PEC last summer. “That’s what we see our role as.”
He continued: “We take our role very seriously and, at the end of the day, Dominion understands it.”
Divided into six sections, the report provides a detailed though concise history of the proposed line, consolidates PEC’s suspicions and doubts about the power companies’ motives for building the line and offers alternatives to it.
The report cites Dominion, Allegheny, SCC and U.S. Department of Energy documents to supports its case.
All along, PEC has doubted Dominion’s rationale for the line.
The proposed line would follow an existing power line corridor, linking a substation near Winchester and one near Areola in Loudoun.
Besides Loudoun, the proposed line would cut through Frederick, Warren, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Culpeper and Prince William counties.
The utility maintains the proposed line is essential to meet Northern Virginia’s future
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