Residents Wrangle over Transmission Line Proposal for Rural Virginia

Residents wrangle over transmission line proposal for rural Virginia

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. GOOCHLAND, Va.—Deborah Blackburn leaned on her cane in a line to enter the Central…

Preservation Virginia: Valley Link corridor among Most Endangered Historic Places

Transmission project would cut through heavily forested area near Richardsville also impacting Louisa and Orange counties, and possibly Spotsylvania.

Rural Virginia Community Fights Massive Power Line Project Designed to Feed Northern Virginia Data Centers

Residents in Goochland, Virginia are mobilizing against a controversial transmission line proposal that would cut through their rural community to power the rapidly expanding data center industry in Northern Virginia. The proposed Valley Link project has sparked intense local opposition, with many residents arguing that their pastoral landscape would be sacrificed to serve the energy-hungry server farms that have proliferated around the nation’s…