The Coalition to Protect Prince William County
UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot...Nothing is going to get better...It's not - The Lorax
Dear Coalition friends and supporters, Don’t settle for the status quo. Tired of looking at the blighted areas in your community, while watching important natural resources turn into housing sprawl that harms our sustainability goals and increases pressure to build out costly infrastructure? In 2022
Dear Coalition friends and supporters, Five is the magic number. Why does that magic number 5 matter with any vote before the Board of Supervisors? Five votes are what are required for an approval. What this “deferral” tells us (see ‘details’ below), is that Stack does NOT
(This email is long and contains critical information) ******************* $64 billion of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition ******************* It is unfortunate (or VERY telling?) that Dominion Energy has now chosen to remove the more detailed routing of not only their preferred route, but
Dear Coalition Friends, The Supervisors’ agenda has now been set for next Tuesday, May 13. The Bristow data center campus is items 13B and 13C on the 7:00 PM agenda (access the links below for proffer and SUP documentation, and staff reports: Item 13-B – Rezoning
Dear Coalition Friends, This issue isn’t complicated. We are being engulfed by the unprecedented expansion of the data center industry in every way. It’s not just their immediate physical building footprint, but now the five transmission lines that are slicing their way via a myriad of routes through
An open letter to the Virginia General Assembly, and the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Virginia – Virginia is running out of time to protect our communities from “unconstrained” data center growth as evidenced by the JLARC study. VOTE YES on HB1601, SB960, and SB1047. Citizens have exhausted every
We got the click-to-send email functionality working! Use the easy links below to send an emailed message of support to both committees on the Data Center Reform legislation bills coming up for a vote on Monday and those coming up for a vote sometime next week.
Dear Supporters, In addition to proposing the removal of some environmental regulations and ensuring access to new energy resources, the White House is considering an Executive Order to remove oversight to allow Data Centers to be built on “federal lands,” which would include our National Parks.
IS THIS STRATEGIC MANEUVERING BY THE DATA CENTER INDUSTRY – WORKING WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY? https://www.nbcnews.com/business/energy/us-wants-more-nuclear-power-2050-americas-coal-communities-rcna173055 “The U.S. needs to add 200 gigawatts of nuclear, Goff told CNBC in an interview. This is roughly equivalent to building 200 new plants, based on the current average reactor
Dear Coalition Supporters, “…Data Centers could actually be hurting our wallets…” https://www.wric.com/video/republicans-and-democrats-say-new-regulations-are-needed-for-data-center-industry-in-virginia/10283158 Year after year this community boarded buses in the cold and headed to Richmond in the pre-dawn hours, with the intention of convincing our legislators that data center proliferation was a threat not only
Dear Coalition supporters, Mean what you say. Say what you mean. As promised, the fight continues — to protect the Manassas National Battlefield, our water, our clean air, our energy grid, and our community. Amercian Battlefield Trust, along with the citizen Plaintiffs, have filed an
Dear Coalition Supporters, As we approach the decade anniversary of the formation of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County, we can take some small measure of comfort that this little itty bitty all-volunteer 501(c)4 nonprofit had it right – from the beginning. Amazon rumor prompts
The Coalition to Protect PWC has been very open about our participation and takeaways from Dominion Energy’s monthly “stakeholder” meetings. We can assure you with 100% certainty (and their meetings with us have confirmed) — EVERY new transmission line within Prince William County is triggered by load demand
Our beautiful state of Viginia is fast becoming an industrial landfill for the Data Center Industry. Things to note: The state of Virginia needs well over 23 gigawatts of power (current demand) One nuclear power plant produces merely one gigawatt The Digital Gateway alone, from
Dear Coalition supporters and neighbors, We apologize for missing in our most recent blast email a critical upcoming meeting NEXT WEEK: DOMINION ENERGY – DAVES STORE TRANSMISSION LINE Wednesday, June 12, 2024 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Bull Run Middle School 6308 Catharpin Road Gainesville, VA
Dear Coalition supporters and neighbors, It is time to start showing up and defending where you live, where you raise your children, where you have invested in your biggest asset, your home, your family, and your friends. We have forced the wealthiest industry in the world
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE County Coalition Grows Federal Focus on Data Center Sprawl Executive director says: “County in the crosshairs? We’ll hold federal officials accountable.” Haymarket, Virginia (June 4, 2024) – The Coalition to Protect Prince William County announces the expansion of its advocacy and
The relentless advocacy of Prince William Residents to thwart the industrialization next to the Manassas National Battlefield Park, and across the entire county, has sparked a backlash against the data center ‘business as usual’ model. No more greenwash. No more hiding massive new transmission line infrastructure
Exciting news for the Coalition and the community. Given the totality of the threats we face, and the interests from people to get involved in “making the sausage,” we have expanded our Board. With threats that range from local, state, and now federal levels, we need to ensure
As predicted more than two years ago! Coal is FUELING the Data Center Proliferation. The Coalition to Protect PWC had been warning as early as December of 2022 that out-of-control data center proliferation was consuming so much power that the only alternative immediately available to meet