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With help from directly affected landowners in five local counties and Concerned Culpeper Citizens (CCC), RLEP has organized a grassroots coalition of landowners with the goal of defeating Dominion Resources' proposal to build a monstrous 500-kilovolt electric transmission line through our counties.

The Power-line Landowners Alliance, or The PLA, comes to the fight with a case that no other party is likely to present—that a massive new power line along the proposed route through Rappahannock, Culpeper, Fauquier, Prince William, and Warren Counties is an extraordinarily bad idea that will have a devastatingly serious and permanent adverse impact on citizens who live or own land along the line.

Stay informed on the issue:

RLEP organizes opposition to power line. Addresses the mission of the Power-line Landowners Alliance. Visit the PLA website at www.ThePLA.org. [August 2007]

So many lies, so little time: Dominion Power submits application for new power line in county. [Spring 2007]

Our hallowed ground and the fight to overcome the Dominion power line proposal. Here's how you can help.

Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy's letter to Virginia Govenor Timothy Kaine requesting his support in opposing the power line.

Letter from State Senator Obenshain and Virginia Delegate Gilbert to Dominion Power CEO opposing power line through Rappahannock County [pdf].

Virginia Delegate Todd Gilbert's media release supporting the Rappahannock County effort.

Rappahannock County Initiatives on Proposed Power Line.

Rappahannock County Opposition To The Designation Of A National Interest Transmission Corridor And Concern Over The Air Quality Effects Resulting From Continued Reliance On Ohio River Valley Power Producers.

Over 300 Rappahannock citizens gather to oppose Dominion's power line plans (February 22, 2006)

Click here for links to more information on this critical issue.

Write to your elected officials:

Citizens of Rappahannock are encouraged to flood our elected officials with letters of opposition to this proposed Dominion power line route. Click here for a sample letter in Microsoft Word format (.doc).

Click here for contact information for national, state, and local officials representing Rappahannock County.

Sign up for email alerts:

For RLEP email alerts, send a request to mail@RLEP.org.

For Piedmont Environmental Council power line email alerts, follow this link to sign up.

Make a donation:

Please consider a monetary gift to help support this worthy, critical cause. Your contributed dollars will be earmarked to be spent as approved by the RLEP Board, first to cover expenses of the RLEP Power Line Task Force, and second to assist with The Power-line Landowners Alliance's expenses. Please be generous. Put your dollars to work here, defending against this threat locally. The costs of expert technical briefs and legal defense are very large. RLEP alone spent $110,000 in a similar fight in the mid-1970s when a dollar went a lot further. A similar effort today will cost much more.

Checks should be written to:

RLEP - The Alliance
PO Box 422
Washington, VA 22747-0422

Dominion's preferred power-line route:

Questions? Please contact us!

Email: powerline@RLEP.org
Address:
Power Line Task Force
c/o Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection
P.O. Box 94
Washington, VA 22747