PWC Board Meeting
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Rally to Fight Power Towers!
Update: Live Band, Jukebox Hero! Hits from the 70’s and 80’s. Download Rally Flyer Rain date Sunday, May 17
Pete Candland Hosts Town Hall April 8, 2015
A Town Hall Meeting will be hosted by Pete Candland, Wednesday, April 8, at Bull Run Middle School to discuss the proposed Dominion Power Lines and to hear citizens’ views on this serious threat to our quality of life in Prince William County.
Sample Email to Dominion Power Executives
Send the following letter as an email to Dominion Power executives by copying and pasting into your email. Send it to the following email addresses: thomas_farrell@dom.com; travis.k.cutler@dom.com; charles.penn@dom.com; gregory.e.mathe@dom.com; powerline@dom.com; rmblue@dom.com For maximum effectiveness, we recommend personalizing your email. Feel free to incorporate information from our Comprehensive
Heritage Hunt Golf Club Community Suffers Big Loss Along Northern Route Alternative
There are many reasons that people choose to retire in specific areas and communities. For those who chose Heritage Hunt members, one of them could have been its award winning golf course. Having worked many years, there should be a certain sense of security when you decide you
700 dialed in to Hugo-Ramadan telephone town hall
More than 700 citizens of the Gainesville-Haymarket-Rural Crescent area of northern Prince William County took part in a massive telephone town hall conference Thursday night February 5th to explore the possible impact of a new high-power electrical transmission line running through the area. The conference
Legislative: House Bill 2356 – Underground transmission lines
Our campaign to support ‘House Bill 2356 – Underground transmission lines; pilot program’ has ended. The bill was not voted in. Thank you for your efforts contacting your Virginia State Legislators in support of this bill. Find the results here: HB 2356
Big success at the Virginia General Assembly!
Our trip to the Virginia General Assembly in Richmond was a great success. We came away with commitments from Delegates Ramadan and Hugo to sign on as co-patrons to bill HB 2356 submitted by Delegate Marshall! We had 67 people from all over the Haymarket-Gainesville community
This Fight Is About the Rural Crescent, Not My Back Yard
It would be easy for some to say that this power line fight in Haymarket is all about NIMBY. But they would be wrong. This power line fight is about how a County plans its future. This fight is about how community comes together to protect the vision of why
Big Success at the Town Hall – thanks!
Wow! What a fantastic turnout at the Town Hall meeting that took place on Monday, January 12. Over 1000 people were there and the auditorium was filled beyond capacity. The size of the crowd was above our wildest expectations. We are thankful that so many people
Who speaks for beauty?
There is an area in western Prince William County known as the Rural Crescent. It is a planned preservation area intended to strengthen this county’s ability to control urban sprawl, to maintain local farmland and a country atmosphere. On the zoning map it forms a
Comprehensive Adverse Impact Analysis Report
Our Comprehensive Adverse Impact Analysis Report clearly shows the historical, legislative, environmental and financial impacts for each of Dominion Power’s proposed routes. 1. The New Road Alternative Route (12.2 miles) Historical Legislative Environmental Financial 2. The Northern Alternative Route (6.1 miles) Historical Environmental Financial 3.
A jarring example of how power towers can scar a rural landscape
This picture – taken in Hume, VA – is a haunting reminder of what everyone in the Rural Crescent will face should we not stop Amazon’s power towers.
Great paper on Eminent Domain in Virginia
A must read for those who may have lines and poles on their property! https://pstrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Virginia-Summary-2014.pdf
Town of Haymarket Report on Datacenter and Powerline
A very nice report: Town Of Haymarket Report – click to download (note it is big so give it minute – please also note that IE may have an issue but it works fine in Chrome – go figure) that shows what the Town Of Haymarket carefully
Its not only the living that get disturbed with these projects
Here is a link to a list of cemetaries in PWC, and some are near the project path: https://www.pwcvabooks.com/Cemeteries1.htm.
Data Center Knowledge: Prince William County Says It Too Is N. Virginia’s Data Center Magnet
One of the data center hotspots in Prince William County is the 1,600-acre Innovation Technology Park. (Photo: County Economic Development Department) Colocation, Washington DC Area Prince William County Says It Too is N. Virginia’s Data Center Magnet by Jason Verge on October 1, 2014 Prince William County