FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Delegate Bob Marshall 703-853-4213
Dominion Energy’s Deceit, Dissimulation, and Dishonesty
Dominion Energy should be ashamed of themselves for the omissions, misrepresentations and contrivances they have packed into their mendacious response to the State Corporation Commission to rationalize building 110 foot high power towers to serve a Haymarket data center six miles outside of an Industrial area.
The entire Dominion-SCC rehearing process is completely without precedent. None of the SCC’s recent orders, in response to Dominion, including the July 14 order granting reconsideration, spell out how the SCC intends to proceed with regard to holding future hearings, admitting additional evidence, or other procedural matters.
This unprecedented process, which will affect the livelihood, income, neighborhoods, and home values of so many citizens, is very disturbing to say the least.
Dominion and Amazon’s attorneys dismiss as misstatements the sworn affidavits of several Prince William residents, myself included, regarding Amazon’s counsel who contradicted the public claims of Dominion despite the fact that our statements were given under Oath with serious legal penalties for intentional misrepresentation.
Dominion’s own participants at a March 2017, Corps of Engineers meeting declined to comment on the statement offered by Amazon’s (VA Data) attorney regarding any future power needs or their construction timetable for the data center, which contradicted Dominion’s claims
In order to get to the bottom of the conflicting messages, I suggest that Amazon’s Counsel and Dominion executives be sworn on a witness stand, carefully cross-examined and made to produce internal documents regarding data center construction timetables and power usage.
Dominion has proffered at least four different dates for which the data center had to be finished according to the alleged needs of the client. The alleged data center operation finishing dates included July 1, 2017, July 1, 2018, and September 1, 2018 (given Dominion’s requested two month delay).
Dominion now acknowledges “Assuming approval of an overhead route, the Company estimates it will take approximately 20 months for engineering, real estate acquisition, permitting, and construction.”
Dominion claims that Prince William County’s approval of a change to allow the construction of 490 senior living homes supports Dominion’s application for additional power. However, Dominion failed to tell the SCC that the 490 senior homes will demand significantly less power because the homes replace a previously proposed, much greater energy consuming, 1,161,180 SF commercial space.
The General Assembly needs to establish a different approval process for power tower lines. I urge the SCC to reject Dominion’s power requirement claims.