A height comparison shows the height of Dominion Power's monster towers.
Dominion Power's goal is to purchase dirty electric power and sell it along a private system outside Virginia. The vast majority of the power would be sold to customers in New Jersey, New York and other states north of Virginia.
Dirty Power
Dominion Power plans to buy electricity on the cheap from coal-fired generating plants in the Ohio River Valley. Then our state's dominant utility company intends to use Virginia simply as an extension cord that would transmit the energy across Virginia, so it could connect to urban areas north of Virginia.
A massive power-line corridor would muscle through the Shenandoah Valley, the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia’s Piedmont and into Northern Virginia suburban communities. Towers up to 160-feet high would march across the state.
Dominion Power plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of rate-payers’ money on outdated and environmentally irresponsible methods of generation, transmission and distribution to serve the needs of customers outside Virginia. The project will increase costs to Virginia businesses and consumers yet provide them with virtually no benefit. The power company proposes to minimize the payment of equitable compensation to thousands of Virginians damaged in the process.
The proposal takes money out of the pockets of Virginians and gives it to Dominion Power shareholders and residents of states to the north.
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