The Raymond property where we host our annual Judged Pleasure Ride and USTR picnic, adjacent to the Blue Ridge center, is one of the properties targeted to accommodate these enormous power structures.  The Raymonds are such good neighbors to all of us, please be a good neighbor and help terminate this plan and placement of these power lines. 

 

You can go to:  http://www.notopath.org/involved.php  for online information on how to voice your opinion.  This website has EVERY link and possible information you need to act upon this issue. 

 

Please spread the word. 

 

 

 

"PATH, the Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline, is a 244 mile, 765-kilovolt transmission line proposal, designed to carry a vastly enhanced amount of coal-fired generation to states and cities in the mid-Atlantic East Coast.

PATH is proposed by Greensburg, Pa.-based Allegheny Energy and Columbus, Ohio-based American Electric Power (AEP), with a $1.8 billion price tag and an expected in-service date of 2013. The PATH line would draw power largely from the John Amos power plant, which uses mountain top and strip mined coal, and other coal-fired generators in the Ohio River Valley.

The PATH transmission line would begin at St Albans, just northeast of Charleston, WV. After tracking nearly 200 miles through WV, the line would cross into Frederick County, Virginia, then Jefferson County, WV, and then into northern Loudoun County, VA. PATH would then cross over the Blue Ridge, past Neersville, over the Short Hills, and through Lovettsville to cross the Potomac above Point of Rocks. In Loudoun County the project would either follow and substantially widen the existing right of way (currently a 500 kv and 135 kv lines) or follow an entirely new route looping around the Blue Ridge Center and, in Lovettsville, looping just north of the town, in both cases to avoid conservation easements or, more likely, simply to show an alternative to the right of way.  ...
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