The Coalition to Protect Prince William County
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Editor, Times-Dispatch: The State Corporation Commission’s hearing examiner recently recommended approval of the above-ground Carver Road alternative power lines for the Amazon data center project in Haymarket. This recommended route parallels Route 29 from Gainesville before cutting through neighborhoods and woodlands to swing north toward
Editor, Times-Dispatch: The State Corporation Commission holds the future of our community in its hands. My husband and I, as well as many other families, chose to build our home in an area surrounded by conservation land. Originally, this seemed to be the ideal neighborhood
Editor, Times-Dispatch: I am opposed to the proposed power lines that would be placed on Carver Road in Gainesville. Carver Road is a historically African-American neighborhood (one of the last in the area). The neighborhood has been home to working-class citizens for generations. Building power
Posted: Thursday, June 23, 2016 10:28 am http://www.dailyprogress.com/starexponent/news/dominion-helps-bankroll-state-democrats-gop-at-national-conventions/article_b81ac980-394e-11e6-81c7-97da4abcea72.html By JIM NOLAN AND ROBERT ZULLO Richmond Times-Dispatch Energy giant Dominion continues to invest heavily in an alternate form of power in Virginia: political power. The corporation gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party of Virginia in a
The SCC sent new interrogatories to Dominion on May 6, 2016. In it they are exploring additional route possibilities (Wheeler, New Rd.), besides the 5 routes Dominion proposed in their application. The interrogatory contains many other hard-hitting questions, some referencing citizen testimony presented on May 2, 2016. READ
We recently figured out that there have only been 105 comments submitted online since 12/11/15, when the SCC established the on-line site for the Haymarket transmission and substation project. Surely we can do better than this! This project impacts thousands of us across the Haymarket,
Testimony from Feb. 24th local hearing is now posted to the SCC project site: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/DocketSearch#caseDocs/135114
Fill out the Route 66 Declaration Form and bring it to one of the Hearing Dates so that it can be entered into the official record of opposition to any route EXCEPT I-66 and BURIED.
On behalf of Dominion Virginia Power, I would like to inform you that we have completed the routing study for the Haymarket 230kV Transmission Line and Substation Project. We appreciate your engagement over the last several months as we have worked to complete our analysis.
Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) has regulatory authority over all electric utilities and requires that all transmission facilities at or above 138 kV be certified by the SCC. The SCC determines the need for a proposed line and the route. Among other elements considered, the
From Haymarket Beat The following is a letter to Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos. It was sent by The Coalition to Protect Prince William County and distributed to local media outlets. Dear Mr. Bezos, The purpose of this letter is to address with you a situation
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Dominion donations subsidized by customers By ALAN SUDERMAN The Associated Press Aug 22, 2015 Virginia residents have been billed tens of thousands of dollars to pay for donations that the state’s most powerful electricity company has made to politically connected charities, according to
From InsideNova.com – by Jill Palermo Those fighting the new 230-kilovolt line, which Dominion Virginia Power officials have said is needed for just one commercial customer, won their first official victory Tuesday when the Prince William Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of a
On June 24th, the Coalition to Protect Prince William County received an update from Dominion Virginia Power. Supervisor Pete Candland has sent out an email about the update (included below) with many details. Dominion Virginia Power is taking the next step for the proposed Haymarket 230
We received the following email update from Dominion Power today. Although the Coalition appreciates Dominion Powers public acknowledgement of the ” “hybrid” overhead/underground option along I-66″, we were hoping for more substantive information in this update. We look forward to more concrete information in the near future.
Wash Post: Proposed Prince William data center prompts protest letter to Jeff Bezos By Jonathan O’Connell Digger January 7, 2015 An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Corporate Office Properties Trust as the owner of the proposed data center site. The owner has not