Category: News
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Bull Run Observer: Power line hearing at BHS ends before all can testify
By Terri L. Erwin-Fitz – Observer staff The final local public hearing for testimony to be presented for the Dominion Power 230kV and Haymarket Substation project – to provide electricity to what is thought to be an Amazon data center in Haymarket – was held Read More …
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Citizen Email: May 17 BOCS Meeting – Approve ZTA A
(Readers: Don’t lose your opportunity to send your own email to the Supervisors: Vote Yes ZTA A) Supervisors, Last August, you unanimously declared your intent to “initiate zoning text amendments to incorporate appropriate zoning requirements for Data Centers.” Your rationale was sound – data cent
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SCC probing Wheeler, New Rd. routes and asking DVP other hard-hitting questions
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 pres
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SCC Hearing shut down by high school custodial staff – Police escort citizens out of building…..?!
The SCC obviously didn’t make proper arrangements and believe us when we told them that the May 2 hearing would have significant (~500 people) citizen attendance, coming to testify into the wee hours of the night! And that they needed to make sure that the Read More …
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Jeremy and Annie – Emails after May 2 SCC Hearing
Jeremy and Annie heard each other’s testimony the night of the May 2 SCC local hearing at the Haymarket Battlefield High School. Jeremy is a friend of Karen Sheehan, who came with his guide dog, Legion, to give his eloquent and extemporaneous testimony on this Read More …
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DON’T FORGET – FINAL LOCAL SCC HEARING – TONIGHT!
DON’T FORGET – FINAL LOCAL SCC hearing for the Haymarket transmission and substation project: TONIGHT – MAY 2 7 PM BATTLEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL – AUDITORIUM 15000 Graduation Drive – Haymarket Show Our Unity – WEAR RED! UNPRECEDENTED: One of the 3 SCC Commissioners who will decide this case will be at th
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Bull Run Observer: Board to back citizens on power line, after all
By Terri L. Erwin-Fitz – Observer staff Late in March Elena Schlossberg, executive director of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County, said she received word that the Prince William Board of County Supervisors in closed session withdrew its intent to be a respondent in Read More …
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Bull Run Observer: Final SCC hearing here on power line
By: Terri L. Erwin-Fitz – Observer staff The State Corporation Commission will hold the final hearing on Dominion Power’s proposed Haymarket 230kV and substation project on May 2 at 7 p.m. at the Battlefield High School Auditorium located at 5000 Graduation Drive in Haymarket. In Read More …
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Press Release: Come, add your voice to ours…the citizens of Haymarket and Gainesville
To: All elected officials, all media outlets Coalition to Protect Prince William County PO Box 382 | Haymarket, VA 20168 Sometimes, constituents and other citizens ask for your vote. Today, I am asking you for your voice. Next Monday, May 2, is the last Read More …
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Planning Commission: UNANIMOUS YES!
Our county Planning Commissioners unanimously approved Alternative A for the Zoning Text Amendment (ZTA) on April 20! You, the people, spoke – and they listened! This couldn’t have happened without the phenomenal collaboration led by Planning Director, Chris Price, and his staff; as well as Read M