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The only viable alternative to overhead HVAC transmission lines that would preserve the value of private property, conservation easements,  and national and state parks faced with the MARL/Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek and Valley Link transmission projects would be underground high-voltage direct current (HVDC).

 It is feasible , it was proposed as an alternative to the PATH 765kV transmission line, in 2009, by Black & Vetch.

The cost for Underground HVDC has come done significantly since then and the installation space needed is even smaller. It can be installed underground along existing transmission easements or highway easements and has been used in multiple projects in the US.Read more about  Underground HVDC here .

The mitigation costs of undergrounding these projects using HVDC could be paid for by data center taxes, data center impact fees or through new rate structures for large energy users such as data centers.

Submit an opinion or letter to the editor on the data center energy issue or the MARL/Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek and Valley Link Lines to one of the Loudoun County Newspapers. Be Sure To Mention Our Petition!

• LoudounNow:Letters to the Editor must be 500 words or fewer. Submit your letter here: https://www.loudounnow.com/site/forms/online_services/letter_editor/

• Loudoun Times Mirror : Letters to the Editor must be 500 words or fewer. The deadline for current edition is noon on Tuesday. No  letter writer will be published more than once in a 21-day  period, or more than once over the course of three print editions. Submit your letter here: https://www.loudountimes.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/ 

• Blue Ridge Leader And Loudoun Today: Letters for publication must include your name, address and phone number Submit your letter here:  https://blueridgeleader.com/contact/

Submit an opinion or letter to the editor on the data center energy issue or the MARL/Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek and Valley Link Lines and the Woodside substation to one of the Frederick County Newspapers. Be Sure To Mention Our Petition!

• Winchester Star:  There are two options to submit items to the Winchester Star Open Forum must be 500 words or fewer. Submit your opinion here: https://www.winchesterstar.com/site/forms/online_services/open_forum/      Letter To The Editor must be 250 words or fewer. Submit your Letter here: https://www.winchesterstar.com/site/forms/online_services/letter_editor/

• North Virginia Daily: Letters to the Editor must be 250 words or fewer. Submit your letter here: https://www.nvdaily.com/site/forms/online_services/letter_editor/

• The Winchester Gazette : Letters To the Editor can be submitted here (not sure what the word limit is): https://www.thewinchestergazette.com/submit-a-letter-to-the-editor/

Jefferson County VOLT is fighting the Gore-Doubs-Goose-Creek segment of the  MARL/Gore-Doubs-Goose-Creek transmission line and the Valley Link transmission line.  Two counties in West Virginia - Hampshire and Jefferson are impacted by both transmission lines .  If both lines are approved,  17 Counties through West Virginia will be impacted by these HVAC transmission lines. Both lines require new 200' easements through West Virginia  more than 6,000 acres of property would be taken to host these transmission lines, while West Virginian's receive no benefit at all.

West Virginian's Against Transmission Line Injustice is leading the fight in West Virginia to oppose both the MARL segment of the MARL transmission line and the Valley Link transmission line.  Two counties in West Virginia - Hampshire and Jefferson are impacted by both transmission lines .  If both lines are approved,  17 Counties through West Virginia will be impacted by these HVAC transmission lines. Both lines require new 200' easements through West Virginia  more than 6,000 acres of property would be taken to host these transmission lines, while West Virginian's receive no benefit at all.

Help us get the word out by posting our petition on social media! 

Download our flyer about these two projects and our proposed HVDC underground alternative and hand it out to your neighbors and friends in Loudoun, Frederick and Clarke counties in Virginia and encourage them to sign our petition! 

HVDC underground is applicable to all of the proposed 500kV and 765kV projects in Virginia. 

 If underground HVDC technology is adapted it will save thousands of private property owners across Virginia form eminent domain easement takings for transmission lines to provide energy for data centers!

President Trump has gotten a pledge from the AI big tech billionaires to absorb the electric price increases and all infrastructure costs rather than making the citizens pay for them. 

Now is a good time to let him know its not just the cost its Our Land and Our Property!!! The Data Center companies to pay to underground the lines needed to support their business. Underground HVDC technology - along public roads , in existing easements and underwater.

You can:

•  Send an e-mail from the web form https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
• Call his office and speak to a person on the comment line 202-456-1111 Comments go quickly and the wait is not very long–line closes at 4pm and is not open on Fridays
• Send a letter to

                  The White House

                  Office of the President

                 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. 

                 Washington, DC 20500

Let President Trump know about the overhead HVAC transmission lines that and how it will impact you. There are 5 overhead HVAC lines proposed for the  Mid Atlantic just to support Data Center Alley (3-500kV plus 2-765kV) This is @16,194 acres of private property - almost all of it subject to eminent domain takings! Destroying homesteads, farms and businesses. 

Property owners in multiple counties in Virginia and West VA are facing two lines - the 500kV Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link/Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek line, 154 miles on 185ft mono-poles and the 765vK  Valley Link North line, 261 miles   on V-structs with guyed wires. 

Talk about how the overhead transmission lines will destroy your property, the equity in your home, quality of life about the harm from EMF’s. 

Emphasize that the transmission developers refuse to consider an underground HVDC solution when they already know (2009 study) its doable. There multiple underground HVDC lines on the East Coast. Dominion has been  awarded a 185 mile all underground HVDC line from Southern Virginia to the Northern Virginia data centers. 

There is no excuse to not use underground HVDC technology, these are trillion dollar companies run by billionaires.