Richmond Times-Dispatch Letter to Editor: Power Lines Don’t Belong on Carver

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 Read More …

Bull Run Observer: Coalition raises issues with SCC examiner’s Carver Rd. choice

By Terri Erwin-Fitz In an email to the Bull Run Observer, Greg Mathe, with Dominion Power, announced that on “November 15, 2016, the Virginia State Corporation Commission hearing examiner issued his final report and recommendations on the Haymarket Electric Transmission case.” The hearing examiner recommended Read More …

Bull Run Observer: Del. Marshall critical of SCC examiner’s choice of Carver Rd. alternative route for power lines

By Terri Erwin-Fitz Delegate Bob Marshall, who has worked tirelessly on defending he community that will e affected the the State Corporation Commission’s final decision on locating the power lines, say that it seems there is a hearing examiner who is “making the case for Read More …

Richmond Times Dispatch: Dominion helps bankroll state Democrats, GOP at national conventions

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 Read More …

Bull Run Observer – Some speakers hit on protecting property values and local landscape at second round of power line hearings

By Terri L. Erwin-Fitz (Observer staff) The State Corporation Commission held its second day of hearings on Dominion Power’s Haymarket Substation and 230kV project on March 14 at 4:30 and 7:00. At 5:30, there had been approximately 50 people who signed up to testify, many Read More …

Bull Run Observer: Group representatives like what they hear, as neighbors testify at first SCC hearing on power lines on Feb. 24

By Terri L. Erwin-Fitz – Observer Staff The State Corporation Commission is holding hearings on the proposed Dominion (Virginia Power) Haymarket Substation and 230kV project. The first hearing was held on Feb. 24 at Battlefield High School.  Residents were given the opportunity (to) testify in Read More …