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By Don Del Rosso
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Dominion Virginia Power started talking about building a transmission line through the Piedmont almost two years ago,
A lot has happened in the meantime*
Local governments* environmental and community groups and individuals have organized to try to kill the proposed 500.000-volt line, which would cut through Frederick, Warren, Rappahannock, Fauquier, Culpeper, Prince William and Loudoun counties.
They soy the line, a project driven by greed rather than need, would scar the countryside.
They’ve collectively spent millions on lawyers, consultants and newspaper advertisements {the Piedmont Environmental Council) to stop Dominion Virginia Power and its partner, Trail Co.
Dominion and Trail Co. also have dumped big sums into promoting the project, which they consider essential to satisfying Northern Virginias short- and long-term electricity demands.
For its part, the State Corporation Commission (SCC> has held more than a half dozen public hearings on the matter since last summer in the area and Richmond, receiving comments from about 300 people and groups.
The vast majority of them object to the proposal.
This coming Monday, SCC Hearing Examiner Alexander F. Skirpan Jr. will conduct a key trial-like proceeding in Richmond.
He will make recommendations to the SCC’s three-member commission, which ultimately will decide whether approve Dominion's request.
Only participants. like Dominion, Trail Co., PEC, local governments, Including Fauquier, and the SCC staff will be allowed to provide testimony during the Feb, 25 evidentiary hearing.
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