New Alternate Route In Louisa
Evidently the folks at Valley Link woke up yesterday, stared at a map of Louisa County, and decided five extra miles of alternate route would look nice right in the middle of it. No memo. No rationale. No “oops, we forgot a school.” Just a new line on the map, as if transmission corridors appear by divine inspiration.
We pinged their favorite spin artist, Rob Richardson, plus the official Valley Link contact page. The silence has been majestic. Crickets would at least have the courtesy to chirp.
Remember the July letter? Crystal clear: pick preferred routes from the ones already shown, then hold a triumphant webinar so everyone can clap. Instead we get a mid-game rewrite with zero explanation. Will there be more surprise detours next week, or is this the last improvisation before they lock it in?
Two theories present themselves, neither flattering.
Theory one: Louisa County officials noticed the original path was practically high-fiving Louisa County High School and the site of a future elementary school. Perhaps someone in government got mildly irritated. Valley Link has said, repeatedly and with a straight face, that there are absolutely no health issues outside the 200-foot right-of-way. The school sits a comfortable 1,500 feet away. Our back-of-envelope EMF math puts that in the 1–5 mG neighborhood. Studies keep finding effects; Valley Link keeps calling them rumors. Convenient. Legal teams might enjoy that particular discovery file.
Theory two is more entertaining. The current primary 'blue' route slices directly through the middle of two large AWS (Amazon) parcels, not convenient for data center land usage. Follow the new alternate and it suddenly just kisses the edge of an Amazon parcel, freeing up the two that were bisected. Dominion has never hidden its affection for co-location, especially when a gigantic industrial customer is waving a checkbook and says they want co-location, just not too much co-location. How nice of Valley Link to make this accommodation. We saw the same gravitational pull in Orange County: routes that somehow keep drifting toward planned data-center campuses. Orange Chairman Bryan Nicol denied any such connection with impressive volume at a public meeting. Maps, unfortunately, do not blush. The pattern is getting hard to dismiss as coincidence. As we know from FOIAs, the data center folks don't like it when their land is consumed with a transmission line, rather have it just next door on peasant land.
The likely-to-be-chosen alternate now sails within a few hundred feet of ordinary houses. Congratulations to those homeowners: a 24/7, 365-day soak in 10–25 mG of EMF for the rest of their lives. Is the reason they will have a new neighbor so that Amazon has more land for their data center campus?
Health effects remain, according to the people drawing the lines, just rumors. How reassuring.
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