Photo by Randy Litzinger/Fauquier Times-Democrat
No, it’s not installation art.
The clear-cutting, the digging, and the constructing are almost done in the county’s far northeastern corner for the new power transmission line — the wisdom of which had been debated and litigated for more than two years. There’s no longer debating the facts on the ground, however: Virginia Dominion Power and its partner, Allegheny Power, won.
It wasn’t a clean victory; where the line runs now was not where Dominion had originally proposed. The new transmission line follows an existing right-of-way already controlled by Dominion, which made this particular route more difficult to fight.
The Rappahannock County landowners within the rising power towers’ sight-lines are left with this resulting picture. And this particular picture is worth more than a thousand words, a lot more, certainly more than are printed each week in the Rappahannock News.
So we’ll let the picture speak for itself and make no further comment, except to say:
The picture might somehow be prettier if the power to be transmitted from the Ohio Valley to Northern Virginia came not from coal-fired plants but, instead, from Boone Pickens’s proposed wind farms or some other form of clean energy generation.
Walter Nicklin
Publisher
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