Environmentalists file in Va. to block power line

Yahoo via a pee ^ | 7 Jul 09

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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.

[shove_it]

Once again the Sierra Club is in under the wire.

[pnh102]

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

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

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

[raybbr]

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

[LibLieSlayer]

Find these protester's homes... disconnect the power poles feeding those homes. Do not let them ever reconnect.

LLS

[saganite]

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.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

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.

[The Wizard]

enemies of America must be stopped.

[RU88]

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

[driftdiver]

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

Yes they do

[eyeamok]

this whole environmental religion is getting ridiculous

[q_an_a]

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.

[sergeantdave]

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.

[JimRed]

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!

[The Electrician]

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

[wolfpat]

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).

[shove_it]

That’s a good one - BANANA!

[AppyPappy]

Coldest Summer in 66 Years

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

[The Great RJ]

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.

[hoosierham]

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.