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Virginia
regulators
approve
power line
By J.vmks V Gannon
-Special tv. i (>«■ Ka|>p<iiuuuiwck News
Virpytuu's utility reifuiatur* have approved Dominion Virgmia B'wvt's proposal to build a tkVnule hi*ih voltage power line that would cut across a portion of Kappahanmvk i'ountv, dealing a heavy blow tv> local op(>oiionts of the projtvt.
In a l- payv opinion htuided down on I'ucsdav, the throx^juilue State i'urporatton I'omnussion said tbi’ line was* needed to ensure reliability of electric why to to the power hungry region. But they made their approval contingent on appmval by utility regulators m IVnnsvIv.uua, which have not vet appleved the line
The Piedmont Knvironmental t'ouncil. winch Kxl opposition to the ;'HH' kilovolt line, oxpix'xss'd outrage.
"Tins is not the liest solution tor Virxmta or mxx'ssanly tor the mid\lluntie." said t'hris Miller. 1’Et' presuknt "It s simply the ouUxime of a svstimi that is biased toward budding transmission
The line is part of a ■40-mile transmission 'corridor proposed linntlv b\ nonunion and IVnnsvlv ama basixl Allegheny l\>wer Once completed. it would bejem m lYniisvKun a. cixiss {.Kills of West \ irumia md slice through five Vnymi.i count it's tvtoix* teruunat mu at i substation in l oudoun i'ountv
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