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Georgia Power — bury your high voltage lines!
Georgia Power covets and is trying to induce over 200 Fayette County landowners to sign easement rights so Ga. Power can construct their 180-foot “Godzilla towers” and droop high voltage industrial power lines across our beautiful landscape.
The all-powerful Ga. Power is willing to spend millions of dollars in this land grab to build their dream and destroy our beautiful neighborhoods across Fayette County.
Fayette’s historic Hopeful Baptist Church and Cemetery established in 1825 believes the desecration of an almost 200-year-old church and sacred cemetery by above ground industrial power lines is wrong for so many reasons. Citizens and patriots from the American Revolution to the present are buried here.
Hopeful has repeatedly asked GP to please bury the high voltage power-lines as a compromise down New Hope Road out of view of the church and cemetery so as not to destroy our tranquility.
Because local officials have not helped and choose only to take money, the church went on a fact-finding trip to Washington, D.C. and on Capitol Hill. Hopeful has been told there are federal and state funds for placing these lines under ground. Over a dozen American communities across the country have gone this route and more are following these leaders.
Some examples of the billions of dollars made available so far for placing utility lines under ground:
• Section 40101 of Public Law No: 117-58 established billions to include burying lines underground.
• Section 40105 of Public Law No: 117-58 makes the under-grounding of utility wires and eligible expense through $31.6 billion per year for projects already underway.
• Federal Transportation Enhancements Program, under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), has also helped pay.
Construction of one of the world’s largest data center projects costing over a billion dollars can figure out how to make this happen.
Fayette’s historic Hopeful Baptist Church and Cemetery has turned down Ga. Power’s offer of $144,000 and any future amount, because we do not want to see Fayette County’s history, beautiful views and landscape destroyed forevermore by overhead industrial power lines.
Citizens of Fayette County, please help save Fayette’s beauty and history. Join us Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at the church.
Georgia Power, Georgia Public Service Commission, BlackRock, QTS, Fayetteville and Fayette County officials, please see that the lines must be buried and save historic Hopeful Church and Fayette’s stunningly beautiful places.
Last of all, we the people, are praying the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is watching.
In God We Trust,
Hopeful Baptist Church
1247 Ga Hwy. 92 North
Fayetteville, GA 30214
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