really<\/em> been here before?<\/a><\/p>\nOddsMakers of this brand-new AMP plant being built in the Berry Hill land area in the next five years: ZERO percent. <\/p>\n
This power cooperative is not going to build a brand new plant at a minimum price tag of $321,000,000. It’s just not going to happen, no matter how the local politicians and economic developers try to spin it. I just don’t see it as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You may be saying “So what?”, but this has some current Southside Virginia implications and makes me really wonder about the Mega-Park.<\/p>\n
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