Board members or even Mr. Griffin? Or an aide? Time to start nosing around.

which is probably over 500 miles away?  Is this some kind of joke?  

does the wind pattern blow from Wise County up here? We get enough smog here as it is, and have to meet pollution standards based on local air samples to boot, so maybe Fairfax County does have an interest in what blows out of the smoke stack in Wise County. Chinese pollution is hitting Japan and even wending its way across the Pacific to hit the West coast. Weather knows no boundaries.

Fairfax County and Wise County were both part of the same planet that is endangered by man-made global warming.  The most important thing for Fairfax to do, however, is not just to pass resolutions (those are fine, but no sufficient) but to take immediate action in slashing its own energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.  So far, I've seen more talk than action in this area.

The capacity to supply Virginia electricity by all state utilties, moreorless, is heavily influenced by Northern Virginia.  The states heaviest energy load, both in terms of demand and demand growth, originates from Northern Virginia.  

The PJM desire for national tranmission corridors supports a DOE agenda to retire old generation plants in the i-95 corridor from DC north to NYC, and replace that decreased capacity with new generation from the central Appalachian and the Ohio River Valley coalfields.

Meanwhile DC to F-burg is forecasted to have continued significant increases in new energy demand well into the future.  

The combination of the two is promoting coal to power the i-95 corridor from DC to NYC by way of a high-voltage transmission park made possible by the designation of the national transmission corridor.  

Since the year 2000, 100% of the new generation capacity built in the state of VA, was been done so for NOVA's energy demand.  But with the plans now to export power out of NOVA to southern NJ and to DC, today's capacity demand in NOVA will be depleted, and meeting tomorrow's electricity needs will drain the sub-grid in Virginia's southern half.  Enter Wise County.  

Transmission planning is a long and slow process, and when decisions are made and investments are committed, what follows in terms of implemented utility action, should be expected to last more than just several decades.  Expect Dominion to expand their Wise County proposal in the future if the SCC approves the plant.  Hence the importance of the pending appointment of the next SCC commissioner.

Dominion has entered proposals at the 11th hour of need and did nothing beforehad in terms of load reduction or energy management with local governments and the state citizens, to forestall any of their proposals.  

Counties like Arlington, Fairfax & Loudoun Counties could implement a resolution, mandating demand reduction by its county facilities it owns, operates, or rents out.  A resolution could address new construction of business and residential buildings to adopt more energy reduction means, especially for new data centers, major industrial and commerical structures, and smart a/c switches for residential buildings could also create an impact on the regions energy needs.

If you are Dominion and your financial planning and involves the success of expanding coal & transmission, then you don't want government like Fairfax, Arlington or Loudoun Counties to run against your agenda, at least not until after the SCC approves your proposals.  

Don't reward Boss Connolly with his dream, a seat in the US House of Representatives.

He don't deserve it.  He's a bum.  He's Mr. Insider.  He couldn't give a rat's a** about you and your dumb lungs.  How many greenbacks have you donated?  Surely not any amount approaching what he can get with a few calls or lunches paid for by someone else.

He a corrupt politician who cares only about lining his pockets in public office.  His conflict of interest problems with West Group and others have been well documented by the Washington Post and other papers.  Any yet, the Democrats in Fairfax keep voting for him.

It is enough to gag a maggot...

who's a Democrat?  That's what we'll have if Boss Connolly (thanks Lee) is nominated. He is bought and paid for by Fairfax County developers. He will find much bigger fish to fry if he's elected to congress.

We should be looking for ethical Democrats to elect to congress. We don't need another William Jefferson.

He's also a bully. If you disagree with him, he'll destroy you. Is that the democracy we want in the 11th district?

Does Connolly own any Dominion stock?