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Environmentalists file in Va. to block power line
Yahoo via a pee ^ | 7 Jul 09

Posted on 07/28/2009 3:34:14 AM PDT by shove_it

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The Sierra Club has joined other environmental groups in intervening in Virginia proceedings to try to block a high-voltage multistate transmission line.

The Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, said it filed papers Monday with Virginia's State Corporation Commission.

SCC spokesman Ken Schrad says Monday was the deadline for intervening in the $1.9 billion line proposed by Pennsylvania's Allegheny Energy Co. and Ohio's American Electric Power Co.

The Piedmont Environmental Council and the National Wildlife Federation also have filed notices of participation.

The 765-kilovolt Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline, or PATH, would run across parts of northern Virginia and eastern and southern West Virginia, ending at a substation near Kemptown, Md.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Virginia; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: electricity; energy; greens; md; sierraclub; va; wva
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Once again the Sierra Club is in under the wire.
1 posted on 07/28/2009 3:34:14 AM PDT by shove_it
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To: shove_it

If the Sierra Club is opposed to it then it must, by definition, be good for the USA.


2 posted on 07/28/2009 3:37:08 AM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: shove_it

You see, they aren’t pro-environment, they are anti-progress.


3 posted on 07/28/2009 4:01:31 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (It's soft tyranny, folks. It's smiley-faced fascism.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

I just simply cannot understand these morons. Do they really want us to revert back to the Stone Age? It does seem so.


4 posted on 07/28/2009 4:05:42 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: shove_it
Find these protester's homes... disconnect the power poles feeding those homes. Do not let them ever reconnect.

LLS

5 posted on 07/28/2009 4:15:08 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: shove_it

This is going to be even more of an issue when they start building the transmission lines for the windfarms that are proposed. Most will be a long way from their customers requiring long transmission distances.


6 posted on 07/28/2009 4:18:40 AM PDT by saganite (What would Sully do?)
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To: raybbr
What they want is to set us back just far enough so that we are not “above” third-world countries. Their belief is essentially communist/Marxist, that those who prosper do so at the expense of others. So, they want to level the playing field so that none stands above the rest...except for the ruling government, of course. And they want a czar-level position in that government.
7 posted on 07/28/2009 4:21:47 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (It's soft tyranny, folks. It's smiley-faced fascism.)
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To: shove_it

enemies of America must be stopped.


8 posted on 07/28/2009 4:22:11 AM PDT by The Wizard (Democrat Party: a criminal enterprise)
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To: saganite

That will be a fun one to watch: windmill environmentalists fighting the PETA people. Has this country gone collectively insane?


9 posted on 07/28/2009 4:23:07 AM PDT by RU88 (Bow to no man)
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To: raybbr

“Do they really want us to revert back to the Stone Age?”

Yes they do


10 posted on 07/28/2009 4:28:59 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

this whole environmental religion is getting ridiculous


11 posted on 07/28/2009 4:44:25 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: shove_it

The Tea Party people need to find a way to counter sue the Sierra Club for their effort to support green power and then to fight wind and hydro activities. The demand more choices then they fight choices. Make them pay. Demonstrate in front of their offices.


12 posted on 07/28/2009 4:54:47 AM PDT by q_an_a
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So-called environmentalists are the spawn of Heinrich Himmler’s Teutonic SS nature worship cult. The Sierra Club has murdered millions of people in the Third World, mostly women, children and babies, with its support of the DDT ban. Environmentalists are criminal Nazis who should be indicted for crimes against humanity, found guilty and hanged.


13 posted on 07/28/2009 4:58:59 AM PDT by sergeantdave (obuma is the anti-Lincoln, trying to re-establish slavery)
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Environmentalists are criminal Nazis who should be indicted for crimes against humanity, found guilty and hanged.

Sounds fair to me, since they want to convict anyone using technology of crimes against nature. Oooh, wait- aren't the queers on their side, the original crimes against nature folks? Crimes against Gaia, yeah, that's it!

14 posted on 07/28/2009 5:06:46 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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Environmentalists file in Va. to block power line

Once again, AP gets it wrong.

Headline should be:

Luddites file in Va. to block power line

15 posted on 07/28/2009 5:17:20 AM PDT by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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I just simply cannot understand these morons. Do they really want us to revert back to the Stone Age?

They've gone a step beyond NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard). Now they have a policy of BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything).
16 posted on 07/28/2009 5:19:21 AM PDT by wolfpat (Moderate=Clueless)
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To: wolfpat

That’s a good one - BANANA!


17 posted on 07/28/2009 5:29:25 AM PDT by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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Coldest Summer in 66 Years

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.coldest.july.2.1103959.html


18 posted on 07/28/2009 5:50:16 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: shove_it

The same groups are trying to block a new transmission line in Minnesota that ironically will be used to carry electricity generated from windmills in South Dakota. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.


19 posted on 07/28/2009 6:04:52 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: The Great RJ

These so-called enviromentalists are people who want all of “nature” to be off limits to everyone but themselves.Only they are capable of appreciating the beauty of land with no people,buildings, or jobs.


20 posted on 07/28/2009 6:17:31 AM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a credit card?)
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