On May 12, just weeks before Democrats and Republicans in Virginia will vote in primaries for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general, Thomas Farrell, the head of Dominion Energy, Inc. sent a letter to its 76,000 current and retired employees and shareholders in Virginia.
The letter was about one issue — Dominion’s effort to build a controversial 550-mile natural gas pipeline through West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. Farrell called the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) “one of the largest and most important projects” the utility has ever initiated. The project, led by Dominion, is a joint venture with three other energy companies — Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas and Southern Company Gas.
Farrell wrote that the massive project — bringing natural gas from Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania to consumers in Virginia and North Carolina — would help ratepayers and shareholders, and create jobs. He termed the pipeline vital not only to Dominion’s future, but to the “Virginia and North Carolina economies” and “the quality of life in our region.”
He urged voters to “review” the candidates’ positions on the ACP before casting their ballots in the Virginia primary on June 13.
JUNE 8, 2017 | CELIA WEXLER
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