CALL TO ACTION – CARVER ROAD

Urge the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to rescind their egregious decision to allow Dominion to run power lines through the generationally African American owned neighborhood on Carver Road. There were three route options, but the SCC chose destroying an historic African American neighborhood. Send an email by clicking HERE.

For more information on the injustice that has been perpetrated against the descendents of these freed slaves and the land they own, read these articles:

Washington Post Article

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/as-data-centers-bloom-a-century-old-african-american-enclave-is-threatened/2017/07/02/f33db65a-5502-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.77dee6320ede

Prince Williams Times Article

http://www.fauquier.com/prince_william_times/news/state-picks-carver-route-for-controversial-new-power-lines-in/article_d14c76ec-586a-11e7-93dc-af52a1b1f3f5.html

 

The ACTION we need you to take:

•  Make a phone Call – Phone number below
•  Send an email – See email address below or Click Here
•  Write a letter – See address below
•   Send this email to ALL your organizations, member lists, family and friends. 

SCC Commissioners Mark C. Christie (2004– Judith Williams Jagdmann (2006–)Chairman James C. Dimitri (2008–)

EMAIL:   Commissioners@scc.virginia.gov

PHONE:  804-371-9608

Physical Address:
Tyler Building
1300 E. Main St.
Richmond, Virginia 23219

 

**Sample Letter & Background Below**

Dear Chairman Judith Williams Jagdmann
Commissioner Mark C. Christie
Commissioner James C. Dimitri

On April 6, the State Corporation Commission (SCC) authorized Dominion Energy Virginia to construct a new 230-kilovolt electric transmission line and a new substation in Prince William County and the town of Haymarket that will follow the Carver Road route.

THE RESIDENTS ARE DESCENDANTS OF FREED SLAVES WHO HAVE BEEN LIVING THERE FOR OVER FIVE GENERATIONS AND DO NOT WANT THESE POWERLINES GOING THROUGH THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. THESE POWER LINES WILL REQUIRE THE STATE TO TAKE AFRICAN AMERICAN OWNED LAND AND WILL DESTORY HOMES, THREATEN SCHOOLS, BUSINESSES AND EVEN THE HISTORIC MT. PLEASANT BAPTIST CHURCH FOUNDED IN 1877. THEY TOOK OUR HOMES AND LAND BACK IN THE 1960’s USING EMINENT DOMAIN LAWS WHICH LED TO THE DISRUPTION AND DISPLACEMENT OF THOUSANDS OF AFRICIAN AMERICAN FAMILIES. NOT AGAIN!!!

We have a collective responsibility to honor the past, safeguard those who have descended from freed slaves, protect property that has been in the family for generations and is now being trampled upon by corporate greed. Who are we as a civilization if we allow our history to be destroyed because of misplaced “progress”.  This is not progress, but of greed.

WE REQUEST THAT YOU RESCIND YOU ORDER TO USE THE CARVER ROAD ROUTE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DOMINION ENERGY VIRGINIA TRANSMISSION LINE.

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TAKE ACTION NOW:

•   Make a phone Call – Phone number below
•   Send an email – See email address below
•   Forward to EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!

Send your email NOW!!

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-power-lines-through-the-carver-road-neighborhood

Thanks for your support.