Action Item In Extremely Informative Email From PEC

I'm sure many of you received that excellent email from the Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC)—our steadfast champions—yesterday, subject line “Electric Superhighway Speeds On.” Kudos to PEC for delivering a clear, no-nonsense roundup of updates along with the most important part: real action items for the citizens whose land is about to be seized for this project.

Head straight to the “June Actions” section, item two: “Submit Comments to PJM.” As you know, PJM—our beloved grid operator/overlord—orchestrates projects in 13 states, Virginia very much included. Whenever one of these ever-morphing schemes (Valley Link, for example) changes shape, it has to crawl back before the PJM board for re-approval. A big piece of that “approval” is deciding whether the project is still “feasible” by the 2029 deadline. And wouldn’t you know it—feasibility somehow includes measuring public opposition, especially from those unreasonable landowners who don’t want a 200-foot-wide scar bulldozed through their property. Imagine the nerve.

PEC has spelled it out perfectly (I’ve unabashedly copied their exact point and action item below). I urge every single one of you to send a thoughtful, polite-but-pointed comment to the PJM board—use their suggestions and the email address they provided. Let’s remind these grid overlords that actual people live here. You know what to do, folks!

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