Yeat Substation Push By Valley Link
- paulBVL
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Valley Link’s PR squad is rolling into the Culpeper Board of Supervisors next Tuesday, May 19th at 6:30 p.m. (302 N Main St) with a glossy PowerPoint on why everyone should just roll over and approve the Yeat Substation.
This is a big one. Unclear if they can even file with the State Corporation Commission this summer until Culpeper signs off, so they’re pulling out all the stops. We need bodies packed inside that building and spilling out the doors to make it crystal clear: the people don’t want this 165-foot-tower monstrosity stomping through the county.
A sneak peek at the “insights” they kindly shared with Culpeper:
Page 12, first bullet: They’re so proud of themselves for “saving money” by picking a shorter route thanks to mysterious “constraints” north of the Rappahannock. Translation: the 90 wealthy Fauquier landowners who lawyered up and politely told them to shove off.
Page 12, second bullet: Basically a velvet-gloved threat. “Locating Yeat anywhere else on a viable 500kV corridor would require additional routing through Culpeper.” Read: approve it here, or we’ll eminent-domain your whole damn county. How charming.
Page 13: The Yeat Superstation is only a “modest” 448 acres. Don’t worry, though—they swear they’ll only ever use 128 of them, tucked politely in the middle so you’ll barely notice… except for the giant transmission towers marching through the woods. “Pre-development activities are already underway,” they assure us. How reassuring.
The rest? Standard corporate fairy-tale propaganda.
Side note: Orange Board Chairman Bryan Nicol must be fuming. Valley Link only bothered to send his board the actual answers to their questions ten minutes before that meeting. Funny how quickly they jump when they actually need something from elected officials.
Here’s hoping the Culpeper supervisors show up just as sharp and unwilling to be steamrolled as the Orange crew was. See you Tuesday.
Read the entire presentation here: