{"id":6771,"date":"2015-05-07T11:12:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=6771"},"modified":"2015-05-07T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:13:14","slug":"what-is-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/what-is-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"what is in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6775\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-Dominion-protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-Dominion-protest.jpg\" alt=\"global warming\" width=\"1028\" height=\"686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-Dominion-protest.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-Dominion-protest-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-Dominion-protest-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1980, Dominion Resources, Inc., was incorporated as the holding company for VEPCO. For us ratepayers on the ground Virginia Electric and Power Company became Dominion.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6774\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-02.jpg\" alt=\"transporting fracked gas\" width=\"1028\" height=\"686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-02.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-02-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominion came through the Woolen Mills recently, whacking trees. Line maintenance. They provide the power that I post by here. But what is the price of the power?<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6773\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-03.jpg\" alt=\"North Anna, James\" width=\"1028\" height=\"686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-03.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-03-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is it possible for a monopoly to be true to its place of origin? To care about cultural and natural resources? To care about the environment? Here recently, the corporation has been in the news, often. From the outside they&#8217;ve been acting more like the Dominator than the Virginian. <a href=\"http:\/\/friendsofnelson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic Coast Pipeline<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayjournal.com\/article\/power_lines_proposed_over_the_captain_john_smith_national_historic_water_tr\" target=\"_blank\">Transmission lines<\/a> over the James River. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Anna_Nuclear_Generating_Station\" target=\"_blank\">New nuclear facility<\/a> on a faultline.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6772\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-04.jpg\" alt=\"political clout\" width=\"1028\" height=\"641\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-04.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-04-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/150506-dominion-protest-04-1024x639.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chesapeakeclimate.org\/press-releases\/dominion-confronted-by-protests-outside-annual-shareholder-meeting-over-companys-dirty-energy-and-dirty-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yesterday<\/a>, people from across Virginia came to speak to the dominator. To date, there is little indication that Dominion has ears.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-signs","category-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6780,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771\/revisions\/6780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}