The Coalition is an all-volunteer 501(c)(4) tax-exempt corporation with no paid management. Our budget and spending decisions are overseen by a team of volunteers that includes CPA, MBA, executive, legal, marketing and grassroots experience.
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We face multiple threats to our county and the Rural Crescent – from developers, transmission power lines, data centers, and in some instances, from our own county leadership. Threats that are larger and more insidious than most of us realized when we began the Haymarket powerline fight in 2014.
Your support enables the Coalition to put forth the strongest defense yet to ensure that our neighborhoods – all throughout the county – avoid becoming communities suffering from sprawl and asphalt jungles, losing our rural area, parks and open spaces, threatened drinking water, and crisscrossed by multiple high voltage transmission lines and substations, caused by tall and massive industrial data center complexes.
What does all of this mean to YOU:
You are part of a unified and diverse group of community allies fighting for unique and irreplaceable aspects of our county.
How YOU can fight this:
We have to fight with more brains because we are smaller, with more passion because we are right, and with more intensity because it’s our community. To make this happen, we’ve got to get our voices heard.
The critical time is now for everyone to defend their community’s quality of life. The stark reality is – you can fight NOW – or you WILL be fighting LATER!
Now is the time for you to invest in protecting your home and family by making sure that the Coalition has the funding needed for our activities to keep the community aware of ongoing threats.
PLEASE help to protect your household and your community
by making a donation TODAY.
No-cost volunteer activities consist of: Writing website content and community notifications; organizing community activities; research and documentation; meetings with: county supervisors, planning staff and other agencies, HOAs, community leadership; coordinating and handling email, phone, and personal meetings with attorneys to determine most effective legal arguments and strategy; responding to citizen questions and requests.
We can’t guarantee any outcome, but if we do nothing, we know that developers and utilities will run roughshod over our communities. We need YOUR help with funding to keep the Coalition’s efforts going.
HISTORY:
What was and is now AT Risk:
To power three proposed Amazon Web Services data centers outside the town limits of Haymarket, Dominion Virginia Power filed an application with the State Corporation Commission (SCC) in 2014 to build an electric substation fed by high-voltage transmission lines running through local neighborhoods and natural space. This “Amazon Extension Cord” requires outright seizure of property, confiscation of rights of way, and invasive construction.
In 2018, the SCC approved Dominion’s written request to participate in the Undergrounding Pilot program for the Haymarket Transmission line project. This decision ensures that 3.1 miles of the 5.2 miles of this transmission line will be buried along I-66. 90+% of the power provided by this project is solely to power Amazon’s multiple data centers being built outside of Haymarket. Since then there have been many, many more data centers approved.
However, everyone must be aware that the SCC Staff said the following in their Haymarket transmission line post-hearing brief about data centers and their power demands: “…in viewing these “line extensions” to large contingent loads, the Commission may wish to require the customer requiring such project to put some of its own skin into the game. Otherwise, the general public, already burdened by the environmental and aesthetic of otherwise unneeded transmission projects, is also not burdened with 100% of the otherwise unnecessary costs.”
There are many moves afoot to industrialize thousands of acres in the rural areas and throughout neighborhoods; and there are also many developers who are trying to build more data centers anywhere in Prince William County, All of these will require even more substations and high-voltage transmission lines coursing through all of our communities – and we ALL will be footing the bill.
Who is at Risk:
Many people assume – with good intentions, but incorrectly – that our battle is a narrow fight over data centers and their powerline. Some think that this is not their fight. Sadly, WE ARE ALL AT RISK!
High-voltage transmission lines reduce nearby property values, introduce potential health risks, destroy habitat and history, and erode the natural beauty of the rural and neighborhood areas of our county. All residents of Prince William County are at risk – from the impacts of the data centers, transmission lines, and substations anywhere in the county; and the desires of some landowners and the Board of Supervisors to turn our beautiful county into a continuously expanding Data Center Alley – an industrial hellscaped.
And it cannot be said enough, Dominion Energy is now and will continue to seek additional transmission routes at some point in the future just to further expand their network grid – and to support all the data centers being approved and proposed.