Latest News - 10/30/2009

Yes, there is an SCC hearing in Lovettsville! Save the date now November 19 at 7:00 pm at the Lovettsville Community Center, 57 E. Broad Way. The meeting will start at 6:00 pm for Intervenors to schedule witnesses and learn the process for testifying at the January hearing, this will be followed by the speaking portion starting at 7:00 pm. This is a continuation of the public hearings from the summer. People who have not previously spoken and are not intervenors now have an opportunity to make their opposition to PATH known to the SCC. Anyone who can attend, should, and anyone who knows someone who has not spoken should ask them to speak. It is an opportunity for citizens who didn't file as intervenors and didn't testify during the summer because they weren't here to make their voices heard. We now have EXPERT testimony collaborating what we have been saying all along there is no need, PATH does not add reliability, it has health impacts due to the EMF's and it will increase air pollution. Read the expert testimony and attack PATH with facts contradicting their propoganda. This is an opportunity to mass forces. It is the last oppurtunity for the local community and its elected leaders to speak out in front of the SCC to voice concerns and tell them that the evidentiary hearing in January 2010 should be held in Leesburg, and not in Richmond, where few can afford to attend.

Time: 6:00pm - For Interveners to schedule witnesses and learn the process for testifying at the January hearing

7:00pm - Speakers voicing their opinions and concerns about the PATH project.

Location: Lovettsville Community Center, 57 E. Broadway, Lovettsville, VA 20180

The evidentiary hearing will begin in Richmond on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, at 10 a.m. Public comments will also be accepted at the beginning of this hearing in the Commission’s second floor courtroom located in the Tyler Building at 1300 East Main Street. Any person wishing to comment at any of these hearings should arrive early and sign in with the SCC bailiff.

Written comments on the proposal must be submitted by January 12, 2010. All correspondence should be sent to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, and refer to case number PUE-2009-00043.

Interested persons desiring to submit comments electronically may do so at the SCC’s website: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Click on the PUBLIC COMMENTS/NOTICES link and then the SUBMIT COMMENTS button for case number PUE-2009-00043.

Known as the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline or PATH Project, the new overhead transmission line would cross Frederick, Clarke, and Loudoun counties. The segments in Virginia are part of a plan to build a high-voltage line from the existing Amos substation near St. Albans, West Virginia to a new substation at Kemptown near New Market, Maryland.

The public may view the companies’ application and related documents during regular business hours at the SCC Document Control Center, First Floor, Tyler Building, 1300 East Main Street, Richmond. Interested persons may also access a copy of the application through the SCC’s Docket Search portal at http://www.scc.virginia.gov/case.

You can view the filing online at http://docket.scc.virginia.gov/ , by clicking on "Search Cases" and entering the case number, click search, then click on the link to the case, then click on 'documents'.