Interesting!
From: Patience Wait [mailto:pwaitster@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:29 AM To: Bill Howley; John Christianson; Paul Wilson; Beth Anne Boyd; Donna Printz; Thomas and Kathy Hildebrand; Grubb, Karen; Daniel Chiotos; Mike Johnson; doug.kaplan@sugarloafconservancy.org Subject: Fwd: FW: Governor's Letter Rips Transmission Legislation
I just received this attached letter from PEC - read, savor, and let's figure out how to use it!
Patience
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bri West bwest@pecva.org Date: Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:26 AM Subject: FW: Governor's Letter Rips Transmission Legislation To: Malcolm Baldwin malcolm@weatherleafarm.com, Bart Hodgson < bart.hodgson@verizon.net>, Carol Hodgson carolhod@aol.com, Keith Lawson lawson20180@gmail.com, Dan Dunlap mom1110031@aol.com, Bill & Christy Matarazzo bill_christy@msn.com, bpotthoff@verizon.net, adehaan@signalcompanies.com, paradefieldfarm@aol.com, Jim Crowley < uuplink@aol.com>, Casey Chlebowski casey16@verizon.net, Hanno Rittner hawnno@yahoo.com, Jeff Pearl jeffreypearl@verizon.net, Dee Dunn < deedunn@rstarmail.com>, tylee ulmer tylee_ulmer@yahoo.com, JonFlan@aol.com, Holly S Flannery HollySFlan@aol.com, Mike Johnson < MIKEUAL1@aol.com>, Judy Randal circa1791@yahoo.com, owner@goetc.com Cc: pwaitster@gmail.com, rob@pecva.org
Hi everyone!
I've attached the letter from 10 East Coast governors calling into question the need or wisdom of a 'transmission superhighway'. It's better than I could have written myself, and much more strongly worded that I would have expected. Although they miss the coal-connection, the Governors are now on record saying local generation is a more reliable way to meet power needs than long-distance transmission.
I think it would be wise to thank Governor Kaine for signing on, while highlighting PATH as a project that would further disadvantage off-shore wind, energy efficiency, and distributed generation. http://www.governor.virginia.gov/AboutTheGovernor/contactGovernor.cfm
Bri