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 …

Send your own email: Time for Jeff Bezos to hear our collective voices: Don’t destroy our homes, Don’t be a Greenwash hypocrite

Dear Community – If you are not already aware, the SCC final order has been issued ruling the transmission line for the Amazon extension cord is the Carver Rd. route. We have contended all along that Amazon was culpable in this battle to protect our Read More …

Washington Post: As data centers bloom, a century-old African American enclave is threatened

Washington Post: As data centers bloom, a century-old African American enclave is threatened By:  Antonio Olivo  July 2, 2017  4:08 p.m. Nathan Grayson helps his aunt Willetta Grayson, 91, walk to his car in Haymarket, Va. (Jason Andrew/For The Washington Post)   For at least Read More …

Dominion requests Carver Rd. route to SCC for Haymarket data center transmission line

Following the June 5 Board of Supervisors response, rejecting either route choice offered by the SCC, Dominion formally requested the Carver Rd. route for the Haymarket data center transmission line.  See their June 5 letter to the SCC here: VEPCO Update to Commission (PUE-2015-00107) Request Read More …

InsideNoVa: State rejects Prince William’s preferred Dominion Power line route

InsideNoVa By Alex Koma, akoma@insidenova.com, April 12, 2017    Roger Snyder/For InsideNoVa.com The route in yellow had been preferred by the county, but rejected by state regulators. An alternative proposal is expected to focus on access from the railroad tracks nearby. State regulators are rejecting Read More …

Data Center Knowledge: New Power Line for Amazon may run above Railroad despite opposition

https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/04/11/new-power-line-amazon-may-run-railroads-despite-opposition Map of proposed electric line routes for an expanded Amazon data center in Haymarket, Virginia, as drawn by Dominion Power in 2015. by Scott Fulton III  on April 11, 2017 The Virginia State Corporation Commission cleared the way last Thursday for the state’s largest Read More …

Del. Bob Marshall: It’s All For The Money

It’s All for the Money Virginia’s State Corporation Commission has made the case for a constitutional lawsuit against itself, Amazon and Dominion Power by their approval of two electric transmission routes (Railroad and Carver Road) to serve Jeff Bezos’s Amazon Haymarket data center, and their Read More …