Culpeper BOS Hosting Valley Link 5/19 @7pm
- paulBVL
- May 11
- 2 min read
Valley Link/Dominion will stage its latest dog-and-pony show before the Culpeper Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, May 19th at 7 p.m. at 302 N Main St, Culpeper, VA 22701. Expect a "hard sell" by none-other than Valley Link's own PR Guru Rob Richardson.
Details, predictably, remain conveniently vague. But this is almost certainly their formal pitch for the Yeat superstation—the capstone to the 765 kV transmission line they intend to drive straight across rural Virginia, sacrificing thousands of acres and the character of the countryside to feed Northern Virginia’s data centers.
This is not optional theater. It is essential that as many citizens as possible attend and make their opposition unmistakably clear. A formal substation application is expected to follow quickly, setting off additional public hearings before the Planning Commission and, ultimately, the Board itself. We must fill every seat in the board room and every square foot of space outside the building.
Late spring and early summer in Culpeper are about to become a gauntlet of meetings. Mark your calendars now.
Killing the Yeat substation is our single most effective leverage point before the entire project lands at the State Corporation Commission late this summer. Show up. Speak up. Or watch it steamroll through.
Here’s the sharpened, pointed, and polished questions ready for the Culpeper BOS to fire at the Valley Link/Dominion reps:
Pray tell, gentlemen — exactly where is all this power terminating at the Yeat substation supposed to be going?
Will you be eminent-domaining your way from Yeat straight across Culpeper to feed the enormous — and apparently insatiable — power appetite of our beloved Culpeper Tech Zone?
Follow-up for the room, likely they will cite the planned 115 kV-to-230 kV “upgrade,” currently eminent-domaining its own merry path right to the Tech Zone, but it will cover only a laughably minuscule fraction of the monstrous load you’re clearly planning for.
Will you also be eminent-domaining your way over to the Remington data centers?
Or how about that brand-new data center the Town of Warrenton just approved — will that be getting the full eminent-domain express treatment too?
And finally: could you please explain why your Dominion representatives looked so utterly dumbfounded at the November 4, 2025 BOS meeting when this very monstrosity was brought up?
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