Campbell County Now In The Spotlight

paulBVL
May 28
2 min read

While Culpeper is already basking in the warm glow of the Yeat superstation circus, it’s Campbell County’s turn in the spotlight! Valley Link has graciously picked a 136-acre slice of paradise for their shiny new Joshua Falls super-substation in your county. How thoughtful.

Your elected officials actually have the legal authority to kill this abomination dead in its tracks. The parcel isn’t even zoned industrial, so they’d need a special/conditional use permit just to get started. And here’s the delicious part: if your supervisors have the good sense to deny that permit, the State Corporation Commission (SCC) is legally powerless to override them. Virginia Supreme Court already settled that one. Game over, Valley Link.

But sure, go ahead and roll out the red carpet. Once that substation rises, it won’t be just one ugly transmission line ruining the view. No, no—you’ll get the full Dominion Energy/AEP eminent-domain greatest-hits album: new lines snaking across your private land like some kind of bureaucratic spider web. Because nothing says “rural Virginia charm” like a dozen steel towers in your backyard.

Stop this now, before the bulldozers show up and the lawyers start circling. The other eight counties are literally counting on you to light a fire under your supervisors and make them deny this thing.

Lucky for you, I’ve pulled the contact info straight from the Campbell County government website—phones, emails, the works. Use it.

If you’re in any of those other eight counties and know a single soul in Campbell, text them, call them, carrier-pigeon them—whatever it takes. Tell them their supervisors need to hear, loud and clear, that killing this planned substation is the only thing standing between rural central Virginia and an industrial eyesore.

Concerned citizens from anywhere else are also warmly invited to ring those same supervisors for a polite little chat about preserving what’s left of the countryside. They’ll be thrilled, I’m sure.

Altavista District

Mr. Tom Lawton

Chairman

434-509-9293

tklawton@co.campbell.va.us

Brookneal District

Mr. Charlie A. Watts, II

Vice-Chairman

434-942-0840

cawatts@campbellcountyva.gov

Concord District

Mr. Matt Cline