Dominion Energy and AEP recently announced plans to install a high-voltage power line from a site near Lynchburg to Culpeper County. The 115-mile project would require landowners to sell a 200-foot right-of-way across their properties and involve placement of metal towers as tall as a 12-story building.
The companies have been holding community information meetings – drawing large crowds of mostly unhappy people.
More than 300 people showed up at the small community center in Fluvanna to learn about the Valley Link project after they got letters about the proposed power line. They packed into a large room where company experts manned a series of tables set-up to address various concerns…