July 25, 2018.

Dear  Governor Northam,

As stewards of the land and water it is our responsibitly to develop renewable energy and stop the destruction of the land and water when it is no longer necessary.  Alternatives are available and if developed in mass would make the cost affordable.  Big business should not be making these decisions, the people should and as our elected officials that is you.  

Please work to:

Eliminate barriers to customer-owned and third-party financed solar power?

Encourage customer-owned battery storage?

Develop pumped hydroelectric storage facilities to store wind and solar power -- NOT fossil fuel generation -- and construct them on brownfields, not greenfields?

Require utilities and regulators to work harder to reduce retail electricity consumption 10% by 2020?

Place a moratorium on new fracked gas pipelines because existing infrastructure can already meet our energy needs?

Eliminate the $20 million mining pool bond cap, so that funds will be there to clean up land previously mined for coal.?

This is an important opportunity to tell Governor Northam that Virginians want energy policies that work for the customer: policies that encourage conservation, zero-emission electricity production, and lower customer bills.

It is past time that the above items are put into effect.  Show us you are a progressive Governor not a pupit for big business.

Sincerely,

Rhonda Dennis