Dominion Opposes Performance Guarantee For Wind Farm; More Va., Headlines

Staff Report, Virginia Mercury

August 24, 2022

• Dominion wants state regulators to get rid of a ratepayer protection known as a performance guarantee that was included in the State Corporation Commission’s recent approval of the utility’s plans to build a massive offshore wind farm off Virginia Beach.—Associated Press

• Gasoline prices in Virginia continue to drop, falling to $3.68 per gallon from a mid-June peak of $4.86 a gallon.—Richmond Times-Dispatch

• “Amid the latest surge in opioid overdose deaths in Virginia, the state has begun rationing the number of naloxone kits that local health departments and civic organizations are eligible to receive and hand out in their localities.”—Cardinal News

• Chesterfield police said emails they sent Fairfax County Public School administrators to inform them about the arrest of one of the district’s counselors on solicitation charges never went through because of typos in the email addresses. The counselor stayed in his job 20 months after his arrest.—Associated Press

• A candidate for Suffolk City Council was disqualified from the November ballot after more than 90 people told the local electoral board their signatures had been forged on his nominating petition.—Virginian-Pilot

• “Norfolk police want to spend $750K on mental health, homeopathic treatments and massages for officers.”—WHRO

• A crowdfunded rainbow billboard reading “Love thy neighbor — Matthew 22.39” has been erected in Martinsville in response to another billboard that went up in 2019 declaring that “marriage is 1 man + 1 woman.”—Martinsville Bulletin

• Blacksburg’s town council passed a resolution criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as well as state proposals to ban abortion after 15 weeks.—Roanoke Times

• A Northern Neck man is selling a pirate ship houseboat called “Surrender the Booty” for just $49,000.—Axios Richmond

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