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Frederick county and residents shouldn't sacrifice their land to benefit Loundoun county. What about the devalue of the adjoining property? Who wants to live beside a substation? These new proposed transmisson lines and substation will have a deep and long term negative effect/ impact on residents lives.
My private property is not for sale. I am not going to sacrifice my personal way of life for millionaires corporate gain. I have health problems already,I dont need radioactive electric transmission lines to give me more cancerous tumors. I will not allow the millionaires to use my property,and destroy my Livestock and the field, gardens that i have worked years to create.I do not have money to afford increasing my electric bill. I do not want this transmission in my property. The millionaires should have it installed in the millionaires backyard. Let's serve next era some contaminated well water, I dont want any. The MARL transmission line only belongs to Nextera, I dont want it, and i won't have it, or allow it on my private property.
Part 1 - Has the Frederick County Planning Commission done its due diligence to independently investigate the claims made by a company who stands to realize significant profit if it can build the proposed Woodside substation?
A review of Staff’s recommendation reads like an AI summary of NextEra’s rather rosy and fluffy application. And perhaps that would be appropriate, considering that the project is for the benefit of new AI data centers in Loudoun County. However, residents of Frederick County and surrounding areas will be permanently harmed by the County’s careless approval. Frederick County must do more to independently investigate the substation’s impacts, character, and location in a residential area, no matter how it is zoned.
For instance, I see no details of the equipment that will be stored and used on the site. Large, oil-filled transformers can leak and/or catch fire and may be impossible to extinguish using equipment Frederick County already has on hand. Who will purchase the equipment first responders may need to deal with toxic fires and spills particular to the substation components? The neighbors are at high risk for toxic exposure episodes.
What is the weight of the equipment that needs to be transported to the site, and what is the weight limit of the existing roadways, both Thistle Lane and Joline Drive? How might construction traffic cause damage to county roadways, and who is going to pay to repair them after construction is complete?
Substations have become targets for vandalism and terrorism in recent years. Will site security be adequate to prevent any incidents that may impact neighboring residential properties and a major interstate highway?
I live in the Stonewall district and have the current power lines running close to my house. I oppose the MARL transmission lines and the new Woodside substation. I have to look at the power lines and we receive no benefits from the lines. This is PATH all over again and we vehemently opposed it as we do this new line and substation.