Exit Heritage Realty – Haymarket Homeowner: Dominion Virginia Power Line Project

August 4, 2017 If you haven’t been following the news on the proposed Dominion power lines through Gainesville and Haymarket closely, here are the recent developments.  The project proposes the installation of 100-foot-high towers carrying 230,0000-volt power lines from a Gainesville substation to a new Read More …

Where’s the Need? Citizen Letter

  Where’s the Need? So many people want to discuss, debate, and argue about what route should be used for Dominion Energy’s Haymarket, Va. transmission line and substation project in Prince William County.  This is understandable.  Affected residents and businesses are trying to protect their Read More …

Daily KOS: Amazon needs land – so they’re taking it from elderly Black folk descended from freed slaves

Daily KOS: Amazon needs land taking from elderly Black folk By wagatwe Thursday Aug 03, 2017 · 1:29 PM EDT The people of the Carver Road community in Haymarket, Virginia have a strong, proud history. It’s a predominantly Black, working-class neighborhood that’s home to families Read More …

WJLA: Dispute pitting neighbors against power company and Amazon in Prince William County

WJLA: Dispute pitting neighbors against power company and Amazon   http://wjla.com/news/local/dispute-pitting-neighbors-against-power-company-and-amazon-in-prince-william-co   by Richard Reeve/ABC7 Monday, July 31st 2017 Haymarket, Va (ABC7) – Along rural, quiet Carver Road in Haymarket, the signs sit in front of Christine Moore’s house. “Attention Dominion Energy,” they read. “Private Read More …

Washington Post Dominion Energy OpEd: Standing in the way of improving a county’s power

Wash Post OpEd:  Standing in the way of improving a county’s power By Robert M. Blue July 28 at 4:00 PM Robert M. Blue is president and chief executive of Dominion Energy Power Delivery Group. Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chairman Corey A. Stewart (R) recently Read More …

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Dominion gets delay on Prince William transmission line that has sparked resistance

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Dominion gets delay… By:  Robert Zullo Richmond Times-Dispatch July 26, 2017 Dominion Energy, facing a wave of determined opposition from local government, a pair of state lawmakers and residents over a planned 230-kilovolt Prince William County transmission line and associated infrastructure intended to Read More …

Coalition: Email and Press Release – Call to Action! – 7/26/17

CALL TO ACTION!! Recent events over the last two weeks are significant, and the pace of new SCC orders and Dominion Power motions in the last 24 hours have been dizzying. In a nutshell, the SCC Commissioners suspended their final order directing Carver Road as Read More …

The Derecho Blog: Dominion Energy, The Monopoly that Can’t Shoot Straight – 7/25/17

The Derecho: Dominion Energy, The Monopoly that Can’t Shoot Straight   Heh, heh, heh, I take great joy in watching a corporate giant with the institutional arrogance of Dominion Energy, twist and squirm while repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot. It has been a busy Read More …

InsideNOVA: New hurdle for Dominion power line could quash Carver Rd. route

InsideNOVA: New hurdle for Dominion could quash Carver Rd. route  By Alex Koma akoma@insidenova.com Jul 24, 2017 Dominion Energy now faces a major hurdle in its controversial effort to build a new power line through western Prince William County to reach a Haymarket data center. Read More …

Dominion: McGuire Letter to Chairman Stewart, BOCS – 7/24/17

From: “Charles Penn (Services – 6)” <charles.penn@dominionenergy.com> Subject: Dominion Energy Virginia Appeal for Cooperation to Chairman Stewart on Haymarket Transmission Project Colleagues, attached is a letter sent out moments ago to Corey Stewart, Chairman of Board of County Supervisors for Prince William County making an Read More …

Prince William Times: Supervisors pledge $30,000 to power-line fight in western Prince William – 7/19/17

By Jill Palermo July 19, 2017 Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey Stewart, left, stands with Joyce Hudson and other members of the Alliance to Save Carver Road during the group’s press conference outside the James J. McCoart Administration Building July 18. The two-year fight against Read More …

Washington Post: Prince William to donate $30,000 to legal effort against proposed power line route

Washington Post: Prince William to donate $30,000… By Antonio Olivo July 18, 2017 Prince William County said Tuesday that it will donate $30,000 to support the legal efforts of residents fighting against a proposed Dominion Energy transmission route in the Haymarket area linked to plans Read More …

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Filing claims Amazon doesn’t need controversial Prince William County transmission line for data-center – 7/17/17

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Amazon doesn’t need controversial…. By Robert Zullo July 17, 2017 For the better part of three years, furor has steadily mounted over a proposed 230-kilovolt transmission line and associated electrical infrastructure that Dominion Energy wants to build in Prince William County, primarily to Read More …

Washington Post: Va. panel to reconsider power line route that would uproot ex-slave’s descendents

By Antonio Olivo July 14 at 6:14 PM  The Virginia State Corporation Commission announced Friday that it will reconsider its decision to allow the route of a set of Dominion Energy power lines to cut through land near Haymarket that has been owned for more than a Read More …