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 …

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Dominion’s donations partially subsidized by its customers

Richmond Times-Dispatch: Dominion donations subsidized by customers By ALAN SUDERMAN The Associated Press Aug 22, 2015  Virginia residents have been billed tens of thousands of dollars to pay for donations that the state’s most powerful electricity company has made to politically connected charities, according to Read More …

InsideNOVA: Board votes to support partially-buried Haymarket power line

From InsideNova.com – by Jill Palermo Those fighting the new 230-kilovolt line, which Dominion Virginia Power officials have said is needed for just one commercial customer, won their first official victory Tuesday when the Prince William Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of a Read More …