Attachment 1

Upstate Forever Petition to Duke Energy: Scrap the Transmission Line

Duke Energy wants to build a new natural gas plant in Asheville, North Carolina and a new substation in Campobello, South Carolina and has proposed 44 possible routes through the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas for a 40-mile long transmission line that would connect the two facilities. Over 200 towers with an average height of 140 feet would support this massive line; some of the towers would be as high as 192 feet.

Upstate Forever petitions Duke Energy to scrap the transmission line and to do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas.

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The following pages list the 1,850 persons who have signed the petition as of 11:00 a.m. on August 31, 2015 with their comments. Timestamp Name Zip code Comments 8/7/2015 14:01:49 Patricia Carson 29607 8/8/2015 8:27:08 Angela Viney 29306 8/8/2015 9:57:12 Virginia Anderson 28792 No New Lines!!!! It's not needed. The areas the transmission lines are proposed to go through are environmentally sensitive. These areas are the gateways to our states and to have these monstrosities transversing our beautiful mountains would be a travesty. The Polk County area has just recently had a new business come to the area and this project 8/8/2015 10:00:22 Autumn Hoyle 28782 would stop it in it's tracks. Recent information that has come to light about Duke's overcapacity and the flat demand they project for electricity in the Asheville area raises serious questions about the actual need for this line. The region that the study corridors run through is known for scenic beauty that draws residents and tourists alike. This proposed line would cut an ugly gash through the area, resulting in significant negative scenic, economic and environmental impacts. This 8/8/2015 10:04:28 Robert Ellis 29356 line should not be approved.

8/8/2015 10:06:10 Jo Quatannens 29322 We appreciate Upstate Forever's leadership in advocating for all of us who love the Upstate. 8/8/2015 10:06:32 Hulene Breland 28739 Please find another solution and scrape the foothills transmission line. Please stop your present project and use an alternate plan than this horrible, huge line. It will have horrendous negative impact on property values, environment, & tourism - not to mention health concerns from electro-magnetic affect, etc. Other methods are being used elsewhere and we ask that you consider some of them. Also, Henderson county is being used as a conduit to Asheville with the least benefit and the most destruction of personal 8/8/2015 10:06:50 Bill & Bonnie Otto 28731 property and natural, beautiful surrounds. This is a travesty! 8/8/2015 10:21:46 Larry Kosowsky 28739 Don't spoil the mountain views and decrease the value of my home 8/8/2015 10:22:14 Cornelia Alexander 29322 Duke Energy needs to use alternative approaches, which are widely available, to provide redundancy and reliability locally to the Asheville market without destroying large tracts of land in the foothills and mountains and impacting both the environment and local economies. If you do pursue the HVTL then maximizing use of existing right of ways already established should be the only option conisdered if Duke Energy's goal is honestly 8/8/2015 10:36:43 Jay Alexander 29322 to minimize impact to the community and environment. Thank you for your assistance is the STOP DUKE ENERGY movement. I am the individual who initiated the petition on change.org ---- with over 3,500 signatures collected and a multitude of comments since it's launch on 7/18/15. Your information is being shared with these people and they have been asked to support Upstate Forever's petition and to write the recommended letters. An email blast to signatories will be going out this weekend and we will also send them intermittently as news/actions needed warrants. Please feel free to contact me if I can be of any help. 8/8/2015 10:38:30 Deborah Messmer 29356 dm 8/8/2015 10:39:27 Steve Quatannens 29322 8/8/2015 10:44:41 Meg Stadtler 28739 I agree with this petition and do not want these transmission lines to come through our neighborhood, Cummings Cove (Hendersonville, NC). These lines would destroy our property values and have an impact on our beautiful mountain community that treasures its plants and wildlife. We had paid Duke to bury our lines to date and don't want to see lines in 8/8/2015 10:48:52 Lyn Blake 28739 our community. 8/8/2015 10:50:54 Mary Sheehan 28722 8/8/2015 10:57:31 Robert Jordan 29356 8/8/2015 10:59:22 Sandra Sibley 28722 8/8/2015 11:00:57 Lisa Bezzeg 29322 8/8/2015 11:05:21 Mary Thompson 28782 Please rethink the foothills transmission line. The towers will be a blight on God's beautiful landscape. There has to be a better way. The property values that the towers will devastate 8/8/2015 11:06:01 Julie Christianson 28739 is not just about money but people's quality of life and their lifetime investment in a home. Duke Energy, Do not ruin the beauty of the upstate mountains, please! Invest in solar, I'll be the first person to buy solar panels / energy from you! I know many people who are 8/8/2015 11:17:56 Sofía Kearns 29617 ready to invest in solar too! To avoid the negative impact on the region in terms of tourism, real estate values and potential health concerns, we need to focus on alternatives to this project. Reasonable options are suggested here: http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/08/08/options-exist-dukes- transmission- line/31297537/?fb_action_ids=10207649374531664&fb_action_types=og.comments

8/8/2015 11:19:48 Beth Baldino 28787 Thank you 8/8/2015 11:48:18 Winnie Clark 28722 PLEASE consider alternate methods for additional energy demands. Wind turbines, incentives or credits for solarizing residences. We do not want huge swathes or forest cut away for towering lines to be put in. WNC is known for being GREEN lets invest in alternate 8/8/2015 11:54:13 Charles W Arnold 28791 methods to accomplish the same goal! There has to be a better way than robbing us of the beauty of these mountains. This affects 8/8/2015 12:06:58 Heather Starr 28792 our quality of life. There are better solutions to our energy demands!!! Shame on you Duke Energy. Land grab, poor investment, and pointless useless spending 8/8/2015 12:12:16 Frank Hardy 29662 paid for by taxpayers. Spend your stockholders money before you spend mine. 8/8/2015 12:12:22 Monica Jones 28782 8/8/2015 12:27:34 Sherry Dashiell 28782 8/8/2015 12:39:55 Caroline Young 28782 Please consider this!!! It is urgent! This area is known for its beauty. Why would you destroy that when so many other options 8/8/2015 12:42:19 Lisa Grefe 28759 exist? Show your leadership for providing better alternatives. Stop ruining communities. Stop ruining peoples livelihood and the local economy. Stop ruining fragile real estate markets. Stop ruining families. Stop defacing our beautiful countryside. South Carolina legislators and County Commissioners need to listen to their constituents. The voice's of protest are astronomical. Do the right thing for our communities, The people of the Foothills of SC/NC and North will not stop until a rational plan that protects all of our communities is realized. This land grab is an unnecessary and an abusive use of archaic eminent domain laws. Duke Energy upgrade what you have, you have alternatives that don't require such a ruthless disregard to the families and 8/8/2015 12:46:41 Scott Homstead 29322 businesses that you say you are helping by providing your service. The best alternative is using existing right of way and burying the lines. Help us protect our 8/8/2015 12:56:23 Theron Weeks 28739 environment! 8/8/2015 13:01:10 Mary Schultz-Rathbun 29322 Undergrounding, using existing right of ways, needs to be Duke Energy's primary consideration.

Less space is needed for this type of installation on land they already have access to.

Southwire Company in Carrollton, Georgia offers XLPE copper cables that include fiber optics for realtime monitoring of buried transmission lines that target problems within a few feet; refuting the argument that problems cannot be located quickly.

Advances in trenchless burial techniques and directional drilling reduce installation times which narrows the cost differential.

Moving forward, all existing high voltage lines should be replaced with underground lines. These right of ways need to be turned into areas of natural beauty while allowing easy access.

Currently these "Metal Martians" are a blight of visual pollution to the beautiful vistas of mountains, the natural scenic farmlands and historic communities of this region.

Underground cables offer myriad improvements to the overhead lines outweighing the argument that it is too expensive.

It's time for Duke Energy to change its mindset and become a good neighbor to its 8/8/2015 13:05:17 E R Ryan 29356 customers. For 43 years, we have lived and worked (and now retired) in this distinctive area and appreciate the economy and culture of Polk County, North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina (Spartanburg and Greenville Counties). They are founded upon the very thing this line and substation would destroy — the unspoiled natural beauty of this community just beneath the Blue Ridge Escarpment. The clear-cutting of a wide 150 foot swath and erection of towers almost 200 feet high would drive a stake through the very heart of this stunning landscape and destroy the rural beauty that has drawn people from all over for many decades. Today, places like this are rare in all the world and need to be treasured and 8/8/2015 13:06:19 Elizabeth Laughridge 29322 preserved. Once lost, they can never be restored. 8/8/2015 13:13:13 Donna Bacon 28739 Don't ruin the beautilful foothills of SC for the benefit of Asheville when other options are 8/8/2015 13:19:55 Robert Then 29322 available. At the very least use existing ROW's and not new ones. Duke Energy has proposed installing its 230 KV line through our community, bisecting home sites in a most egregious fashion. I speak literally. Seven neighborhood home sights will be divided as the (2B) link is platted on Duke’s interactive map for the “Modernization Project”. I moved here to retire fourteen years ago, bought a piece of this bucolic countryside, and build a final home for my wife and me. Each day I am greeted with unfettered wildlife and spectacular natural view of these Foothills. I cannot imagine a more desirable life than what enjoy here, today.

Our family has joined hundreds of others in preserving our property by donating a Conservation Easement to the Pacolet Area Conservancy (PAC). Some 8,400 acres are thus preserved by PAC in our area. Other land trusts such as Upstate Forever protect as much or more against development. You can see that preserving this extraordinary place is widely supported. Citizens here are passionate when it comes to conservation—these Foothills are too precious not to be.

Many immediate neighbors, like me, are retired, in their 70’s and 80’s with much of their net worth tied up in these homes. It is cruel, downright insulting in fact, to select this community and these residents to suffer the financial losses that a transmission line will bring. For three quarters of a century I worked, contributed to our economy, paid my taxes, and served the nation’s military. Along the way I managed to set aside enough to build a comfortable home in this lovely place. Now, with my neighbors, I must confront the reality that our community may be scarred, spoiled and without much value.

8/8/2015 13:20:53 W.T. Myers 29322 At this age do I start again? If not, to whom do I look for support? As a property owner in northern Spartanburg county and southern Henderson County, I am very much opposed to Duke's plans. The scenic beauty of the affected areas is a huge draw for tourism for both South Carolina and North Carolina and Duke's plans would have an enormous negative impact on economy of the area. The economy of the area has just recently received a major boost with the new Tryon Equestrian Center and Duke's plans would be a big setback. In Henderson County, it would negatively impact a thriving apple 8/8/2015 13:24:32 Ann Wilkins 28731 orchard which is also a popular spot for families to visit.

As part of the Foothills Preservation Alliance we are emphatically opposed to Duke Energy’s proposed Foothills Transmission Line, a part of its Western Carolina’s Modernization Project. It would have a tremendously adverse economic and environmental impact on our community. We feel the Upstate South Carolina communities will gain no benefits from this transmission line as the end product will serve the Asheville, NC, area. Duke Energy has not demonstrated any consideration to the well-being of the public, by proposing this project. And Duke’s history with regard to the recent coal ash pollution disaster in North Carolina is a a further example of their indifference to environmental consequences.

The Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina areas were founded upon the very thing the proposed Foothills Transmission Line Project would destroy; rural landscapes consisting of rolling farms and mountainside homesteads now home to an unparalleled equestrian economy established with toil and passion over the past 100 years. The hard work and investment in this economy is just now blossoming into a world class status. The advent of the Tryon International Equestrian Center, a $100 million investment, is stimulating a unique economic boom. Amidst this equestrian economy lie farms and businesses that would be negatively impacted by the destruction of pristine farmland, pastures, equine trail systems and upscale retirement communities that have long sought out and created a unique, thriving and diverse culture and lifestyle. The economy which supports the working community here - - the farmers, tradesmen, artists, outdoor recreation businesses, and nearly 180 non-profit organizations - -largely depends upon these equestrian and retirement 8/8/2015 13:35:53 Judie Klapholz 29322 income investments. 8/8/2015 13:39:10 Nancy MacDonald 28773 8/8/2015 13:43:46 Bette Mann 29322 8/8/2015 13:47:59 Ilaria Derr 29322 8/8/2015 13:54:28 Marion Connor 28722 Please put a stop to this project or at least use under ground lines. My plan has been to 8/8/2015 13:57:29 Carol Cowan 29307 move back to that area very soon. 8/8/2015 13:57:41 Ellis Hughes 28804 ***willful & capricious*** were the words used in court to ***DEFEAT*** Duke for a similar 8/8/2015 14:02:00 Mary-Lu Elias 29322 proposal in SIMPSONVILLE!!!! I am confident that Duke Energy has the brain power and expertise to solve this dilemma for 8/8/2015 14:02:05 Charlie Speight 28722 the good of all involved. Does Duke Energy have the will? 8/8/2015 14:02:24 Steve Wood 29322 This would devastate out beautiuful Foothills area! Upstate Forever has worked so hard to protect our stunning vistas, forests, streams and all of the natural beauty that is here. If this were to happen their work would mean nothing. It is wrong on so many levels for Duke to be able to do this! With great concern, Kahleen Rondell 8/8/2015 14:07:07 Kathleen Rondell 28782 Conservation Property Owner This proposal is a major threat to the homeowners of the area, both in livelihood and lifestyle. Much of this area's economic revenue comes from tourism and equine activities, to name only a couple; tourists come to enjoy the beautiful views, and many international equine events take place here. The proposal of installing 140' towers across the beautiful scenic landscape as well as destroying our groundwater are abhorrent to all of us who live 8/8/2015 14:09:49 Pam McNeil 28782 here. 8/8/2015 14:10:11 Frances S. Nemet 28773 Duke Energy, please hit the "pause" button on this project and study the alternatives with 8/8/2015 14:12:46 Diane Smock 29601 input from ALL stakeholders. Thanks! 8/8/2015 14:22:01 Holly Wilkes 28773 Too much is being destroyed by the present plan. These are good alternatives. 8/8/2015 14:24:45 Laura Boineau 29605 8/8/2015 14:25:36 Marie Gregory 29356 My husband and I are co-owners of a home on corner of Penial and Red Fox Road. These power will impact the value of our home. I am sure there are other alternatives for Duke other than ruining Polk County with these big, obtrusive power lines. We are currently with Rutherfordton electric and are very happy with them and do not want to change to Duke.

Please think about what you are planning to do. Would you want to have this near where 8/8/2015 14:30:19 Bonnie Tillman 28722 you are living? I bet not. We have property that they are trying to put a line through, been in our family for 90+ years!! 8/8/2015 14:32:51 Thomas Hottdl 28806 No to Duke!! 8/8/2015 14:35:44 Brenda Linder 29356 Please don't destroy our communities! This is not necessary. 8/8/2015 14:38:19 Sally Spencer 29302 We have rare and endangered species of plants and animals that we have protected for 8/8/2015 14:43:41 Roberta Keller 28739 decades. The creeks on our properties feed into Mud Creek. 8/8/2015 15:08:06 Peter Schlossberg 29322 I agree with all the alternate solutions Brad Wyche has given to allow our beautiful Upstate to continue to prosper. Uncontrolled, poorly planned expansion that damages our country side should be averted at all costs. Duke Energy leaders can certainly present reasonable 8/8/2015 15:09:06 Nancy Rainey Crowley 29302 solutions. If not, then Duke Energy does not have the right leadership! 8/8/2015 15:11:10 Tom Hunt 28722 FYI its just not South Henderson County- we are at the northern tip of Henderson County in 8/8/2015 15:19:57 William Vlahoulis 28759 Mills River and a line #12 proposed right through our subdivision. My husband and I live in an historic home that was built in 1815 and is protected with Preservation North Carolina. The proposed power lines would come close to our house and also cross over our private trail system where we ride our horses. It is a travesty to even consider putting huge power lines in our pristine environment destroying natural beauty harming our rivers and streams and hurting our economy. We are opposed to these lines 8/8/2015 15:22:37 Jane Eden 28722 which have not even proven to be needed. The proposed transmission line through our beautiful High Vista neighborhood in Henderson County, NC is a terrible idea. All of our 350+ Duke customer residents would be extremely and negatively impacted. I hope Duke Energy takes a leadership role here we can all support -- certainly this path of ugly destruction is NOT THE ONE. Please consider 8/8/2015 15:28:15 Dorothy Parham 28759 alternatives. 8/8/2015 15:31:05 Ann Keller Yates 28722 If this must happen work along existing lines. The towers looming over the foothills would forever decimate the area. Everyone in the area will be affected, not just those within 500' of the transmission lines. We are blessed to have a wonderful view of White Oak Mountain, and the thought of waking up every morning 8/8/2015 15:44:04 Anna LaVigne 28722 and seeing those towers makes me physically ill. 8/8/2015 15:44:31 Alison Smith 29322 8/8/2015 15:45:41 Daniel LaVigne 28722 In addition to the various economic and environmental factors, providing additional electrical capacity to one geographical area of Duke customers should not come at a great cost to another geographical area of its customers. This project will do significant damage to Duke's 8/8/2015 15:48:52 Jim Holly 28782 relationship with a large segment of its customer base for many years. 8/8/2015 15:52:53 David W. Williamson 28773 we are in support of your petition and totally agree that Duke's infrastructure proposal is regressive, not progressive. Save our foothills and beautiful mountains, streams, animals 8/8/2015 15:53:56 Tami Valentine 28739 and property! 8/8/2015 15:54:49 Richard Valentine 28739 Save our mountains! We urge Duke to abandon/rethink this project as it will cause significant environmental, conservation, ecological, economic damage to our upstate communities. There has to be a 8/8/2015 15:56:00 Marilyn LeFeber 28722 better way! 8/8/2015 16:00:13 Elizabeth Fryga 29205 8/8/2015 16:05:11 Dana Wilson 29349 8/8/2015 16:36:53 Eileen Rivers 28722 Please do not ruin our beautiful area. Line 2B splits our 17 acre horse farm at 370 Night Lark Lane - Golden Hills in half with our home less than 600 feet from the line or a potential tower. A travesty to our family in every respect. We moved to this area for the great quality of life, magnificent scenic beauty much of it protected by conservation easements. ( we thought), the well established equine amenities, and a pronounced sense of community. The Up-State/ foothills have always been a place known for its beauty and balance of nature's glory. The lasting effects from Duke's economic greed will be likened to a pitted carbuncle's scar. Duke must not be allowed to 8/8/2015 16:58:03 G Mitchell Hambright 29322 destroy our economy and environmental beauty - PERIOD 8/8/2015 17:12:40 Karen Ellis 29356 8/8/2015 17:23:02 Lisa Magee 29322 8/8/2015 17:27:25 Melinda Way 28773 There are so many options that Duke is not considering. And, the rush to resolution is unfair to the citizens that just recently learned of the proposed lines. The whole process is backwards and legislation should be introduce in SC to change it. Duke should have to prove to the ORC and PSC that expansion is needed before they start terrorizing 8/8/2015 17:29:19 Rebecca Barnes 29356 their customers with proposed lines. This line will ruin our idealic community and destroy economic stabilty in our town. Please 8/8/2015 17:29:46 Judy Warden 29356 consider other options. 8/8/2015 17:34:58 Noreen Bachman 29356 I oppose the new transmission lines in SC I oppose the transmission lines being constructed on new right of ways on scenic highway 11 and our beautiful SC mountains that would be impacted forever. Use existing right of 8/8/2015 17:38:15 Bill Bachman 29356 ways if project is needed. 8/8/2015 17:48:12 Kimberly Wilson 29669 Preserve Camp Old Indian 8/8/2015 18:06:09 Marilyn 28732 in this modern day the cables need to be buried!! 8/8/2015 18:24:04 Guerry E Harris 28792 8/8/2015 18:34:23 Dan Bueker 28269 8/8/2015 18:34:26 Dorothy Moyer 28722 8/8/2015 18:36:27 Anne Foster 28782 If Ashevile needs more power, build a station up there. Surely, with all of Duke Energy’s resources both monetary and otherwise, a more thorough, well thought-out and transparent investigation is needed into: a) The actual need for a line of this magnitude b) The possibility of using existing lines and structures or updating/adding structures to existing lines c) Other methods of transmission that don’t have such as huge economic and environmental impact, ones that reflect 21st century technologies d) The consideration that money may initially be saved with the construction of a new line, but at what cost for the future of this area of South and North Carolina

Contact the Office of Regulatory Staff!! Here is a quote from their website. “The ORS is charged with representing the public interest of South Carolina in utility regulation for the major utility industries -- electric, natural gas, telecommunications, water/wastewater, and transportation -- before the PSC, the court system, the S.C. General Assembly, and federal 8/8/2015 18:58:13 Rachel OBrien 29356 regulatory bodies…We are here to serve our fellow South Carolinians.” I live in NY and travel to the foothills often to enjoy the beauty. If power lines go up I will stop 8/8/2015 19:04:38 John B. 11709 traveling to your area. 8/8/2015 19:08:21 Harold Clinton Love 28722 This would be a disaster to our area both economically & aesthetically. 8/8/2015 19:11:32 Sherida Buchanan 28792 Our home will fall within 80 feet of these lines along proposed route 17B on not one but TWO sides of our property. We have young children and to say we're concerned about the impact these lines will have on their health is an understatement. We live in a large development and a number of families will be impacted. It's interesting how Duke Energy claims to have chosen areas with the least human impact, yet intentionally cut through 8/8/2015 19:14:54 Angela Roberts 28732 developments like ours instead of going around them. Choose another option! I was recently in the area in question to look at real estate for a potential move from Texas to North Carolina, specially the exact area you are putting the power lines through. I was interested in the landscape, the quiet towns, and the equestrian trails. Due to the Duke 8/8/2015 19:17:51 Sybil Miller 78724 Energy plans, I am now looking elsewhere. Duke Power - you can do better than this. This is not modernization - it is destruction of one 8/8/2015 19:19:40 Cynthia Terwilliger 28782 of the most beautiful places in America. You should be ashamed. 8/8/2015 19:30:31 Kevin Moss 28773 I support your request that Duke Energy scrap its plans for new high voltage lines through 8/8/2015 19:52:15 William Ennis 28756 the upstate of SC and foothills of NC. 8/8/2015 20:07:36 Gretchen Lobas 28722 This, as has been said over and over would be devastating to this area of natural beauty. No to Duke Power. We are good stewards of our land and expect the same of Duke! They can serve their clients well and still respect the property rights iof all citizens and start protecting our plant and clean up the messes they have already made by poor decisions in the past . Cheapest power is not always the best power for the masses and certainly not for the planet. Duke has the resources and expertise and budget to do it right! Do it RIGHT 8/8/2015 20:08:14 Margaret Burke 28722 Please! 8/8/2015 20:16:55 Carol Shue 28782 8/8/2015 20:21:40 Gregory Lobas 28722 These sensible are all more sensible, forward looking options that help preserve the environment and economy of the foothills. And given that Duke Energy does not provide power to the foothills communities it seeks to destroy, and that just two years ago Duke said it did not foresee any significant growth in energy demand in the Asheville area, not allowing them to build at all is another option that the SC energy commissions must take into 8/8/2015 20:23:59 Amy Feldman 28139-7067 consideration. This power line is unnecessary profit driven expansion so duke can monopolize the power grid in the south east. 8/8/2015 20:25:05 Greg JUNGE 28756 Great for share holders bad for local property owners Please stop this plan. It is so unfair to destroy the beauty of our mountains in order to provide cheaper power to Asheville. The damage to the beauty and tranquility of these beautiful first mountains of the Blue Ridge and also to destroy part of the flora and fauna of the region will impact these mountains forever! Please stop this!!! We can make a 8/8/2015 20:32:47 Elizabeth Troutman 29697 difference and beg for another plan! 8/8/2015 20:33:01 K. Nunes 28722 Use the route you already have and upgrade it. Use other energy sources. Stop blocking 8/8/2015 20:35:00 Gayle Heiring 29722 solar! 8/8/2015 20:49:04 Jo Ann Smith 28773 8/8/2015 21:08:01 D.Woodward 28790 8/8/2015 21:15:05 Patsy O White 28773 Stop destroying our woods -- USE existing lines 8/8/2015 21:19:58 Penny Furr 28001 8/8/2015 21:26:57 Amanda VanDuyne 28782 8/8/2015 21:45:58 Stacy Gray 28806 I oppose these power lines ruining our community, carving out thru our homes, and mountains. Destroying our beautiful county and property values. Not to mention the health hazards. Duke must reconsider and look for alternative means. We have a special place 8/8/2015 21:49:41 Dianne searcy 28782 here and it's sad to think that we can lose all that because of duke power. 8/8/2015 21:58:01 Gladys deFarncisco 28739 8/8/2015 22:00:12 Mario deFrancisco 28739 1. Duke doesn't need this. Customer growth is flat and consumers are using less (smarter buildings, more efficiency, conserving). 2. If needed (it's not), NO new rights-of-way. Duke has plenty of options using existing paths. 3. Many of Duke's proposed routes should not be under consideration for a plethora of valid reasons (economic, environmental/ ecological, aesthetic, cultural / historical). 8/8/2015 22:01:05 Russ Rock 29322 STOP!! 8/8/2015 22:12:50 Jeronimo Hernandez 28791 Let's protect our beautiful mountains. There no other place like it on this earth. 8/8/2015 22:22:20 Grant Libramento 28782 8/8/2015 22:26:05 D. Cah 28722 8/8/2015 22:28:14 Nancy Thomas 28739 8/8/2015 22:28:52 Susan N. Johann 28782 8/8/2015 22:33:19 Judith Kerns 28782 8/8/2015 22:49:17 Thayer Fleming 29605 8/8/2015 23:04:50 Mary Jo Petru 28739-8822 8/8/2015 23:15:08 Judith Donlan 28782 8/9/2015 0:04:34 Heidi Cole 28759 8/9/2015 0:44:06 Rita Hyder 29356 We cannot keep destroying our beautiful foothills and mountains. We need our trees to breathe. Keep destroying them and we will indeed become the landscape of the Mad Max 8/9/2015 3:54:19 Lavelle Marcengill 29693 movies. 8/9/2015 5:04:49 Julie Sassen 28759 8/9/2015 6:03:52 Shirley LaGarde 29650 8/9/2015 6:51:21 Robert G Miller 29605 What attracted us to relocate to this part of the country was the natural beauty. I love to hike and enjoy nature and the pristine vistas afforded by the preserves and parks, as well as the views from the roadways. Power transmission lines mar that beauty. Please don't make 8/9/2015 7:00:35 Mark Smith 29356 their presence any worse. Usr existing right of ways. Re think your plans. Please. Keep NC clean. This project will bring more destruction and dirty energy to our mountains when what we need is to conserve every precious inch of our natural environment that we 8/9/2015 7:24:09 Kristy 28739 clean. Natural gas is dirty energy and we don't need it in our mountains!!! A better solution to the transmission lines is a strong conservation program and greater 8/9/2015 7:24:35 Steve Fairley 29601 emphasis on solar technology.

All the routes are unacceptable. Duke has not shared their feasibility plans and alternatives. This has had to be secretly in the works for a long period of time with no transparency to those individuals and areas affected. They still have not answered critical questions of true cost and need. Duke has not been forthcoming with most critical information. Where was 8/9/2015 7:25:40 Michael Kaplan 29690 the transparency when Duke purchase the land from a Spartenberg councilman? 8/9/2015 7:46:49 Virginia 29349 8/9/2015 7:49:02 Robert Kestler 29322 I am intimately familiar with the terrain proposed to be crossed by routes 4 and 10, and the environmental and economic impact on this area would be catastrophic. There may be alternatives proposed that would have a lesser impact, but it would seem to me that it would make more sense to scrap the entire plan and to explore other ways that Duke could 8/9/2015 7:52:06 Peter Rodgers 29690 achieve its goals for the surrounding area. 8/9/2015 7:57:52 Jan Bailey 29609 8/9/2015 8:03:40 Charles Worsnop 28759 There has to be a better way to get electrical power to Asheville.

These transmission lines will put a scar across our beautiful area,which ever route is 8/9/2015 8:09:51 Tony Lancelot 29690 chosen. 8/9/2015 8:20:19 Jean Graves 29609 Surely the alternatives are better than the extremely massive towers proposed. start educating people on solar and wind.. Alternative energy is right around the corner.. 8/9/2015 8:33:53 Julie Williams 34994 Stop the nonsense and do the right thing for the people! 8/9/2015 8:55:16 Alexandrea Billiu 75254 8/9/2015 9:04:28 Marcy Jackson 28792 8/9/2015 9:08:04 David Voorhees 28790 Try aggressively promoting conservation measures with financial incentives first! 8/9/2015 9:10:16 Collin Ferrell 29690 We need more soler energy facilities 8/9/2015 9:19:38 Frank Holleman 29601 8/9/2015 9:19:56 Fred G. Graham 29615 I suport you 100% 8/9/2015 9:27:07 Edward Cole 20003 8/9/2015 9:30:29 Barbara James 29730 Totally agree with this petition. Use the lines you have. No new lines. The upgrades are not needed. As stated in your own 8/9/2015 9:35:24 Woody Hoyle 28782 annual report growth is flat. Find a different way to do this Duke Energy. You could be very proactive and get ahead of the new energy requirements coming from the federal government for increased amounts of solar and wind and do something that may help your environmental record, which has been atrocious in the Carolinas. You could get a lot of mileage out of doing something like that. Please don't ruin the most beautiful area of the Carolinas. You will engender horrible public 8/9/2015 9:35:47 April Mink 28756 relations. 8/9/2015 9:36:31 Charles Klotz 52002 Let's not destroy the beuty 8/9/2015 9:36:57 David Wilder 29687 We do not need to destroy the beauty, homes and ecology of SC and NC for these power lines. We live in the south, let us get with the times and use solar to reduced the gas 8/9/2015 9:46:48 Lori Tarnowski-Hannah 29349 powered Asheville plant and others. Do not destroy our land. 8/9/2015 9:51:32 Bille De Pauw 29697 Stop the murder of your innocent trees! 8/9/2015 9:56:02 Cathy Schwartz 29356 8/9/2015 10:11:57 Kathy Meli 28756 8/9/2015 10:15:05 Cathy 29670 8/9/2015 10:16:45 John Mears 29682 Why isn't Duke looking into solar? 8/9/2015 10:17:32 Pat Sheehan 28773 As someone whose property will be negatively impacted by this proposed project, and the mountain views from my living room window will be forever destroyed , I agree wholeheartedly with this petition to scrap this transmission project. Sincerely, David 8/9/2015 10:19:58 David Ashworth 29690 Ashworth 8/9/2015 10:20:14 Geny Mears 29682 8/9/2015 10:27:22 Jane E Voorhees 28804 8/9/2015 10:28:02 Paige Ramsey Moody 9112 I am a NC native signing from Germany! Destruction in the name of progress is not moving forward ... it moves thousands of undeserving citizens permanently backward by losing value in their homes and property. 8/9/2015 10:29:21 Linda Zumstein 28759 This is intolerable and unacceptable. The above article sums the situation up well. I just moved here from Florida and a big reason for the move was to enjoy the beauty of the upstate and live near the gateway to the 8/9/2015 10:34:31 Susan Antonik 29611 blue ridge. 8/9/2015 10:36:10 Steven Cohen 29681 8/9/2015 10:36:23 Judy Stroud 29690 put it underground 8/9/2015 10:47:10 Robert DuRant 29615

8/9/2015 10:59:36 Becky Hughes 29687 Please stop the project that would erect Duke Energy transmission lines and harm our area. The implementation of a transmission right of way through the majority of route 4 is directly contradictory to the planning and conservation efforts that have defined the Dark Corner area. As a land planning and engineering consultant, I am appalled at the blatant disregard for the environmental and cultural significance of the areas bisected by the foothills project in general, and more directly, the route 4 proposal. The route of least physical impedance or highest profit margin is not always the most suitable answer to any exercise in responsible 8/9/2015 11:05:24 Jacob D Bachman 28208 land planning. 8/9/2015 11:07:56 Thomas Worden 28722 I am behind you 100%!!!! 8/9/2015 11:08:29 Rita Balliew 29651 I agree fully with Upstate Forever. 8/9/2015 11:11:05 Jerry Balliew 29651 I AGREE!!! 8/9/2015 11:15:43 Carrie Cheek 28732 8/9/2015 11:18:14 Susan P Davis 29402 8/9/2015 11:22:23 Helen Carmody Stroud 28784 This is a nightmarish scenario, Duke Energy! No way, Jose! Do not build another power plant , use existing space to put up windmills, solar energy . 8/9/2015 11:26:36 Christina Cohen 29681 Why destroy our natural resources, and beauty . 8/9/2015 11:40:19 April Roberts 29691 8/9/2015 11:40:39 Cindy Ulmer 29617 Thank you for the work you do! 8/9/2015 11:55:33 Candus Wester 29690 This is an unneeded project which will not serve our community, while devastating our environment and economy. Duke should not be permitted to undertake this project for it's own financial gain at our expense. To undertake this project it must use eminent domain to secure its rights of way. The law of law domain requires proof of need which does not exist. The membership of the Public Service Commission must be sensitive to unnessasary 8/9/2015 11:58:06 Patrick E. Knie 29304 destruction of our property values when this project offers to benefit to South Carolinians. 8/9/2015 12:33:45 Chris Sermons 29692 8/9/2015 12:36:54 Chris Bond 29369 I vehemently oppose Duke Energy's plan to install 40 miles of transmission lines across our Blue Ridge Mountains and the Foothills of the Carolinas. These transmission lines will devastate our pristine mountains that Upstate Forever, the Nature Conservancy, and private citizens have fought so hard to protect. This project will also have devastating effects on the 8/9/2015 12:39:17 Katharine M. Roed 29690 economy of Upstate SC and NC. Use existing easements! 8/9/2015 12:40:01 Myra Davis 29673 Transmission lines through this part of the upstate will ruin a pristine landscape and have a 8/9/2015 12:42:15 Carl Roed 29690 devastating effect on property values. Other alternatives must be considered!! I'm an avid hiker, camper, fisherman, trail runner, mountain biker and trail builder. I'm glad Duke is shutting down their coal plant but if there's a way to avoid transmission lines, I hope 8/9/2015 12:43:03 Eric Rogers 29605 they keep in mind the damage they are creating elsewhere. 8/9/2015 12:53:23 Mireya Roake 28756 Please don't destroy the natural beauty of the Upstate. We don't have much left on this 8/9/2015 12:53:44 Christine Clayton 29365 Earth. 8/9/2015 12:57:48 Kay Bracey 29303 8/9/2015 13:08:40 Cathy Jende 77005 8/9/2015 13:11:32 Andrew Roake 28756 8/9/2015 13:18:19 Barbara Johnson 29349 Stop this now!!! I am deeply opposed to this unnecessary Duke Energy project that will cause harm to our environment and our economy. I love our mountains and foothills just as they are and I will 8/9/2015 13:19:11 James Grizzle 29356 exhaust all of my personal resources to preserve our natural beauty for decades to come. 8/9/2015 13:19:12 Barbara Johnson 29349 Stop this now!!! 8/9/2015 13:26:33 Nancy Rader 28739 8/9/2015 13:32:12 RL Clifton 28722 8/9/2015 13:41:28 Sloan Smith 23238 8/9/2015 13:42:42 Pete Dodd 29607 I would like to communicate my family's serious concerns about the referenced project proposed by Duke Energy. One of the potential routes for the power lines (#4) would be centered along a nature conservancy trail that runs along the perimeter of our property in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The towers themselves would hover above our house.

We chose this beautiful area in the mountains of South Carolina for our retirement home. To think that someone could come in and destroy our community is unconscionable. Over 90 homes would directly be affected. There would be a permanent scar etched into our forrest. This would be disastrous for its residents and the only mountain environment we have in our beautiful state.

While our property value would plummet and cause us to abandon our home, the long term impact to future generations would be even worse. Duke would essentially ruin our mountain 8/9/2015 13:43:37 Mark Holland 29690 environment forever. 8/9/2015 13:47:48 Brice Hipp 29601 8/9/2015 13:55:16 Ellen Kochansky 29671 8/9/2015 14:01:26 Katrina Killian 28704 8/9/2015 14:04:25 Shirley B Young 29605 NO NEW RIGHT OF WAY.

Duke's proposed "modernization" project is unnecessary given their current capacities. Duke should be made to adhere to FERC order 1000 reforms.

Even given Duke's insistence on providing this secondary (backup) capability to Asheville's plant technical studies prove existing transmission infrastructure can be modestly modified to support the additional capacity.

Duke has not made public any information regarding cost to run power lines underground or to modify existing transmission lines/towers to compare to other options.

The project as presented will have devastating effect on Polk County's agro/enviro based economic posture. Studies and projected property values by county development advisory boards, regional real estate professionals and environmental experts have demonstrated an overwhelming and far reaching negative impact on our economy and natural resources.

8/9/2015 14:37:19 Nadine Naujoks 28722 Please support NO NEW RIGHT OF WAY. 8/9/2015 14:52:36 Richard Uhlmann 29651 preserve the wilderness! Time for Duke Power to curb in the corporate greed and learn how to be a better concerned corporation! REALLY???? There eARE better ways that don't cause grief like the ugliness of powerlines all over our gorgeous scenic view shed! Get on the band wagon Duke Power and Make solar WORK for you instead of corporate greed!!! IF half the homes and businesses in your coverage area put solar panels on their roof tops we wouldn't even need this kind of eyesore! Get responsible Duke Power!!!! You have yucked up our rivers and view sheds and make 8/9/2015 14:57:31 Ivey Sumrell 28722 yourselves look totally uncaring! 8/9/2015 15:01:41 ROBERT ZERFOSS 29681 SUPPORT REQUEST! Duke Energy, Please scrap your plans for the transmission line. Future generations deserve 8/9/2015 15:32:33 John Travis Seward 29601 to be protected from bad decisions like this. 8/9/2015 15:42:48 Josh Eaker 29607 8/9/2015 15:44:07 donna morgan 28071 8/9/2015 15:46:28 Becky Boyd 29601 It is time for Duke Power to consider community needs and environmental protection in their 8/9/2015 15:56:10 Carl Anderson 29607 corporate calculus 8/9/2015 16:01:33 Wade Cleveland 29601 8/9/2015 16:01:59 Rick Holbert 28792 Scrap the line entirely if it cannot be scaled down and routed so that it uses existing towers 8/9/2015 16:08:04 James Hennigan 29607 without any additional impact on lands that must be preserved. 8/9/2015 16:08:59 Barbara Kelley 29205 8/9/2015 16:25:50 Andy Arnold 29609 As the owner of a home in Henderson County, NC I have serious, valid concerns regarding the current plans by Duke Energy. There are definitely preferable methods to accomplish the 8/9/2015 16:28:11 Linda Y. Price 28731 goal and need for additional power in the focus area. I totally support Upstate Forever's position to scrap Duke's proposed transmission line through the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/9/2015 16:31:18 Susan Trapp 29690 Susan Trapp 8/9/2015 16:45:40 Thomas Kester 29601 Please find an environmentally sound alternative. Don't spoil the mountains. 8/9/2015 16:51:28 Gretchen Johnson 29601 8/9/2015 16:55:46 Frank Mansbach 29601 8/9/2015 17:00:38 Mac Stone 29607 8/9/2015 17:08:56 Toinette Wilkinson 28221 I am totally opposed to the construction of this line!!! Duke should be focusing on new technologies to produce power for future needs...These proposed transition lines will destroy the ecology and the economy of this incredibly 8/9/2015 17:22:23 Vard Henry 28722 beautiful area... Current energy efficiency efforts will make the need for any new transmission lines due to the fact the Modernization Plan is for a projected increase in need of electricity of ten percent in 2025. That is more than ample time to both retrofit existing homes to be more 8/9/2015 17:28:48 Thomas Worden 28722 energy efficient and allow solar power to catch up to needs of 2025 and beyond. 8/9/2015 17:30:29 Ted Gage 28773 There have to be alternatives to this plan. 8/9/2015 17:32:10 James Ferguson 29609 This power line can potentially destroy our church camp in Arden, NC. It is Lutheridge, and the path goes right through the chapel, and the new $500,000 swimming pool. Not to mention changing the character of "a place apart" and the lives of the 15,000 people who visit annually. My preference is that Duke Energy continue energy savings programs, and develop more 8/9/2015 17:43:06 Valerie Hollinger 29601 solar options rather that build this line, or the power plant. Please consider alternatives listed above and get creative with even more! Duke has more money than all of us combine, so surely you have the resources to come up with new 8/9/2015 17:47:50 Marilyn Kaylor 28711 options. One proposed line would cross our family cattle farm and effect 3 homes and 9 people. 8/9/2015 17:49:25 Dr. E. L. Tate 29356 Directly destroying the property planned for our 3 grandchildren. 8/9/2015 17:50:06 Sharon wilson 29601 8/9/2015 17:51:56 Vickie Tate 29356 One line proposed would destroy our family farm. There is no credible evidence or data to support Duke's claim that this transmission line construction is necessary. None. Zero. Zilch. It seems abunduntly apparent that Duke wishes to increase its footprint, at the expense of The Upstate of SC, to profit, i.e., SELL POWER West of North Carolina. Duke is seeking to abuse the eminent domain laws of SC to its benefit. This would result in a perpetual scar of the biggest magnitude on The Upsate, which is one of the most bucolic, pristine areas of the State of South Carolina. We must engage in a "push back" on this power company's proposal and save the land that Upstate Forever has worked so diligently to preserve. For the record, we placed our property into a conservation easement with PAC years ago. The eminent domain laws in SC are in serious need of reform, as this is a painful lesson as to how such conservation easements can be 8/9/2015 18:17:10 Sally Rock 29322 renedered meaningless. Leave Kanuga alone. Please.

Thank you, 8/9/2015 18:11:13 Virginia C Wilder 19806 Ginny Wilder 8/9/2015 18:24:03 James Kirby 28092 Please stop destroying the beauty God gave us just to fatten your greedy pockets. 8/9/2015 18:32:52 Martha Cloys 29601 I agree with everything stated in this petition. I'm lucky not to have my home under a proposed power line route but that does not mean I'm not impacted. My livelihood depends on tourism and a power line (segment 20) through Sky Top Orchard doesn't make sense. It will hurt this cultural icon (owned and operated since 1969), harm the pristine views that attract visitors, news outlets and photographers to the orchard, impact the environment - aside from two cell phone towers, there are no other lines cutting across the forest, fields or across the waterfalls and waterways and it will also virtually destroy business for Sky Top - who wants to go under power lines to get to the other half of the orchard? Even untouched areas will be impacted. Area businesses in Flat Rock also rely on the influx of visitors that arrive specifically because they are here to visit Sky Top. Fall traffic to local eateries and other attractions will virtually dry up.I could go on but you get my drift. This line is not needed. I oppose any route that cuts through our mountains. Bury the line before you bury 8/9/2015 18:46:02 Phoebe Moncrief 28731 our town. please consider other options....I believe most of the residents of Polk County are against Duke's present plans! 8/9/2015 19:08:02 Kemper Penney 28722 There must be a better way!!! Scrap the transmission line and to do this project in a way that avoids economic and 8/9/2015 19:09:25 Mary E Manucy 28782 environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/9/2015 19:18:07 Phil Garrett 29617 8/9/2015 19:31:41 Ashley Parrish 28722 8/9/2015 19:39:13 Ellen Douglas 28722 Please help us protect and preserve the natural beauty of tbe upstate using sustainable 8/9/2015 19:52:32 Susan H. Jordan 29635 technology. Thank you 8/9/2015 20:19:19 Catherine Nelon 28782 Stop the destruction 8/9/2015 20:32:11 Blake Hoyle 28804 This is a travesty...Use what you have. No new lines. 8/9/2015 20:33:04 Woody Hoyle 28782 This is a travesty...Use what you have. No new lines. 8/9/2015 20:45:48 A. Hull 28782 Expand the use of solar energy and please do not destroy our beautiful mtns. of N.C. 8/9/2015 20:58:55 Bonnie Laney 28782 8/9/2015 21:11:04 Cora A Keese 29678 8/9/2015 21:11:41 Laura Dimsdale 28722 Please find another way. We do not want this in our area. 8/9/2015 21:17:11 Matt Rainey 29356 8/9/2015 21:19:20 Keith Dover 29690 8/9/2015 21:23:00 carol and john birkholz 29690 Duke Energy's documented historical demand and forecast reports of 1% growth clearly contradict their stated 15% projection estimate used to justify this abominable project that would forever impact life in SC's foothills. Without major industrial additions anticipated for Asheville, how can such huge future demand exist? How are demonstrated alternative, energy-conserving measures that are currently reducing Duke's power generation being factored into this formula? The extremely serious economic, environmental, health and quality of life concerns of all area residents must be heavily weighed against what appears to be an unjustifiable, unnecessary, and irreversible money-making scheme by a politically 8/9/2015 21:37:51 Arcada McCoy 29635 powerful monopoly. 8/9/2015 21:41:59 Linda Hudgins 28782 i am strongly against Duke's misuse of power in even proposing this atrocity to our values. I live less than a mile away from the proposed sub station sight. I am very fearful of how it will affect my property value. I use the equity in my home to front my business. It may be backward to some, but I have had considerable equity, and it just makes sense for me. With my land value dropping, it may make building my business (Spa in Landrum) harder to obtain. Not only that, but my father worked very hard to buy our land. His dream was to have his family live together on one large piece. It's sickening to think that he worked so 8/9/2015 21:42:27 Amirah Dann 29322 hard for a stranger/ company to just come in and devalue it. This is just wrong. This action is a sure way to slow or stop 8/9/2015 22:18:53 Jerry Jordan 28759 population growth in this area. 8/9/2015 22:21:32 Eric Verhoeven 29607 Please Preserve and Protect our Natural Beauty of the Blue Ridge. When it is destroyed ... 8/9/2015 22:22:26 Bonnie Evans 29672 it is as good as gone! There is always options....use them ! Please conduct environmental and economic studies before you consider placing new lines 8/9/2015 22:38:54 Bill and Sandy Tucker 28773 in or near the Green River Gorge. Thank you. 8/9/2015 22:54:49 Skip Hudspeth 28078 8/9/2015 23:02:11 Robert Rogers 29605 Please let me know what else I can do to help stop this from occurring. 8/10/2015 0:35:46 Anderson Horne 29607 I support the project. Save the SLAVE cemetery and surrounding land in Polk County,NC. 8/10/2015 3:02:14 Pat Doggett 28722 Thank you for all you are doing. This is a big overkill and pocket liner. You can expand existing sub station rather than an over built new one. 8/10/2015 3:29:44 Link Cross 29356 There are other ways. Don't ruin our beauty 8/10/2015 4:57:33 Chad Fisher 28722 8/10/2015 7:53:09 Devon Anker 29609 8/10/2015 7:58:03 Nancy Smith 29601 8/10/2015 8:07:34 Warren Miller 28739 use the middle of the interstate. People's livelihood and health are at stake in an area where so much effort has gone into preserving the rich natural beauty of Western Carolinas foothills and mountains. People who chose to live here feel we are stewards of this historic part of the U.S. Don't 8/10/2015 8:28:31 Grethe Haladyna 28782 break our trust in your leadership by trying to force this through. 8/10/2015 8:29:52 Allen Anderson 29250 8/10/2015 8:30:41 Michael Carruth 28782 8/10/2015 8:45:22 Ashley Edwards 28803 Thank you 8/10/2015 9:15:26 Pam McNeil 28782 One proposed powerline would follow the Pacolet River Valley from Tryon up the Saluda Grade along US 176. This would destroy the scenic beauty of my local community and ruin 8/10/2015 9:20:17 Thomas F. Lytle 28782 a pristine ecosystem unlike any other outside Polk County. 8/10/2015 9:23:42 Katie Hottel 29601 8/10/2015 9:30:01 Haley Viehman 28782 8/10/2015 9:34:20 Perry J Brown 29611 It's criminal that Duke Energy could be allowed to destroy 8/10/2015 9:37:07 Ric Rondell 28782 what so many people have fought to protect! 8/10/2015 9:43:49 Tricia Kennedy 28756 8/10/2015 9:48:25 Garnett Conaway 29607 We don't want the lines. Please invest in a healthier and more sustainable future for our region. Show us how you are responsive to our needs by doing the ecologically sound 8/10/2015 10:02:50 Michele Deudne 28782 thing. I grew up in Spartanburg County, attended Furman Unv, and now reside in western Greenville County. I have a view of Table Rock from my deck. Duke, you can do better than this proposal. With the money you can save Not Building this project, invest in Solor Energy. I imagine this community will give you many free locations to put your panels. In fact, my 8/10/2015 10:23:40 Robert Davis 29611 roof can be the first. 8/10/2015 10:45:12 Patrea St John 29611 I have submitted comments on the foothills website mostly focussing on the need to really plan for the future where global warming and domestic terrorism pose real threats to outdated plans for high voltage, above ground transmission lines and urging Duke to get serious about conservation , solar, wind and hydro.

Will send comments to the NC Utilities Commission underlining the fact that the current, outdated plan is not the most cost effective way to deal with the region's power needs. At the Henderson County group grope meeting, Duke people admitted that all the "participation" by the community was window dressing: the Commission is required to 8/10/2015 10:58:10 diana johnston 28739 approve the most cost effective solution. I support this petition and request that Duke use existing lines and right of way for this 8/10/2015 10:58:57 James Trunk 29356 project. 8/10/2015 11:01:38 Fielding Gallivan 29690 Duke Energy needs to consider the public relations implications of this move if nothing else. The Oconee Nuclear plant in S.C. has come under a lot of fire in recent months/years, and yet another unnecessary intrusion into the beautiful mountains of S.C. and N.C. will not be tolerated well by the local population. Duke Energy needs to stop destroying the home of the very people who support its plants and endeavors. Rather than bulldoze hundreds of acres of forest, spend thousands of man hours clearing difficult mountain terrain, and erect horrible monuments to mankind's worst endeavors, why not spend half the money to make large solar plants a reality? Duke was once cutting edge, if nothing else. Why not reclaim 8/10/2015 11:03:22 Les McCall 29693 that? I also feel this Duke proposal is ill-conceived and would support Duke's past president in supporting energy efficiency. Commercial and industrial buildings waste 30% of their energy according to the EPA & IEA. http://www.seefficiency.com/, http://www.usgbc.org/articles/green-building-facts 8/10/2015 11:04:46 Dan Gerst 29681 https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/NAM_Building_Stock.pdf 8/10/2015 11:59:47 Ginger Goldsmith 29607 8/10/2015 12:13:44 Rita Landrum 28782 8/10/2015 12:43:31 Deborah Boies 29356 8/10/2015 12:54:44 Wesley Sheehan 28722 8/10/2015 13:05:37 Mike Firby 28782 8/10/2015 13:39:18 Donna Peabody 29356 The proposed routes would all have 140-foot tall transmission towers marching through one of the most scenic and environmentally important areas of upstate SC. This project, if approved, will adversely impact the Cherokee Foothills National Scenic Byway (SC Hwy. 11), property values and resulting tax revenue from a growing multi-million dollar equine industry, numerous conservation and historical tracts in the area, and the property of many ordinary citizens.

Duke has posed only the question of “how?” to route this transmission line to Asheville, but this is a red herring; the real question should be “why?”:

1. According to the NC Waste Awareness Reduction Network and the US Energy Information Administration, Duke currently has a significant excess generating capacity in both Carolinas. Both these groups predict demand for electricity to be flat for the foreseeable future.

2. Duke shareholders were told in November 2013 by its CEO that the utility anticipates sales growth to be only in the 0.5 to 1.0% range and is expected to be flat for the foreseeable future. It's most recent estimate of 15% growth is questionable and unsupported.

3. Duke is a regulated monopoly and is guaranteed a rate of return on investment in infrastructure, which it continues to do based on conflicting projections. Duke will make money on this project in the absence of a clearly demonstrated need, while citizens and businesses will face condemnation and loss of land value.

4. There are viable options to satisfy any additional power needs for Asheville, inlcuding building a small natural gas plant, purchase of electrical power on the market for a profit or 8/10/2015 13:59:05 Michael T McCoy 29635 development of alternative energy sources. 8/10/2015 14:03:04 Linda Hudgins 28782 i am strongly against Duke's misuse of power in even proposing this atrocity to our values. 8/10/2015 14:11:52 Harold Clinton Love 28722 8/10/2015 14:15:25 Hokan Thorn 28722 8/10/2015 14:25:44 Karen wedekind 28722 It will destroy many beautiful views! 8/10/2015 14:26:15 Michelle McClendon 29650 8/10/2015 14:36:46 Dorothy Crawford 29322 No towers!!! 8/10/2015 14:40:31 David Nease 29661 8/10/2015 14:53:01 Erin Knight 29601 Please choose an alternative method of supplying power and preserve our beautiful land and healthy ecology in northern Greenville County, northern Spartanburg County, southern 8/10/2015 14:54:47 Glyn Sandzén 29607 Polk County and Henderson County. 8/10/2015 15:00:33 B. Sheila Clendenning 28731 8/10/2015 15:02:32 Lisa Duck 28773 Send A Line That Their Lines Don't Cross Us by Yates Pharr on Sunday, August 2nd 2015

A Call To Action!

Some of you may know that Duke Energy is planning to build [web link] a new 230kV transmission line [web link showing types of towers] from Campobello, South Carolina to the site of a new natural gas plant in Asheville that will aid in the replacement of the current coal plant. The potential routes for the line were recently released. Two of those line segments pass through a part of camp. Those segments are named 8B, 10A, and 4.

Duke Energy Proposed New 230kV Transmission Line Across Falling Creek Camp. Note: The yellow line on the map represents the proposed location of the transmission line construction. It illustrates a 1,000 foot wide area that Duke Energy used to contact all property owners within this area. The final right-of-way condemnation will be 150 feet wide in the center of this yellow line. Duke Energy Proposed New 230kV Transmission Line Across Falling Creek Camp. Note: The yellow line on the map represents the proposed location of the transmission line construction. It illustrates a 1,000 foot wide area that Duke Energy used to contact all property owners within this area. The final right-of-way condemnation will be 150 feet wide in the center of this yellow line. The lines are an answer to a problem of growth which gives rise to its own specific family of issues, one of which is that of protection for the resources we share on this increasingly crowded shelf. And of those precious resources, one is particularly difficult to protect as it happens to be the one resource missing from every map and geological survey: PLACE. Rather, what most could attest to having felt at some point as ‘a sense of place.’ For some, it’s frustratingly abstract: Hard to relate, hard to describe, and tragically most often evinced only when it is destroyed. It is the impression left by any number of elements around us; sounds, clouds, smells, trees, the light, a shared experience, the way a ridge writes its own particular horizon from any given view—feelings that would be forever absented by the proposed misplacements of infrastructure despite serving to comprise the fundamental essence of this region’s allure: places that leave an impression on us. Putting those line segments in the wrong location would cut deeply into the heart and bone of our state and yet still such value is ignored simply because we have no way to measure the impact that a 8/10/2015 15:04:19 Yates Pharr 28784 place has on a human. We seem able only to read the inverse. 8/10/2015 15:08:37 Glenn Freck 28746 8/10/2015 15:15:00 William W. Kehl 28790 I am opposed to routes 8A and 20 specifically and question the need for this project 8/10/2015 15:17:23 Rod McClendon 29650 8/10/2015 15:32:09 Carol Cowan 29307 No, no, no please to not ruin my home area which I plan to return to very soon. 8/10/2015 15:34:22 Sally Frick 29322 Please scrap the plan to put power lines in Campobello. This is the worst idea I've ever heard of. Duke will absolutely ruin some of the most beautiful countryside in the US... just to add a few customers in Asheville. Just bury the 8/10/2015 15:40:56 Tom Caulk 28722 lines; it's more economical in the long run. These GIANT towers would permanently trail a scar across our beautiful foothills and mountains, the main asset of our little community. Carolina citizens would suffer tremendously from this unnecessary expansion. We would much prefer Duke determine alternative ways to provide services to their Asheville and regional customers, including 8/10/2015 15:49:17 Kari Dacey 28782 expansion of solar energy. 8/10/2015 15:54:06 Ian Griggs 11217 Stop the transmission line .... It is an outdated and inefficient way to divert power. Ugly towers and the destruction of land for building and toxic residues to keep vegetation growth 8/10/2015 16:00:04 Gloria Verrecchio 29356 in hand will poison our view, waters and land. 8/10/2015 16:00:11 steven staats 29356 8/10/2015 16:18:13 Cary Hall 29611 I support the complete suspension of the transmission line and substation portions of the project. If Duke wants to build a natural gas plant to replace the coal fired plant and also build a solaar farm, great.

The project Duke wants to do is not for Asheville and WNC. It's to ssell the additonal capacity generated by the NG plant to markets outside the Carolinas in order to gain a fast ROI on the project and profits after the ROI has been achieved.

Don't forget, Duke would not be replacing the coal-fired plant were it not for the mandate by 8/10/2015 16:18:24 Terry Schager 29356 the Federal Government that they do so. Duke was quite satisfied with the status quo. 8/10/2015 16:19:00 Stephen Nix 29687 8/10/2015 16:19:42 Edwina Snyder 29605 8/10/2015 16:20:46 Granville Burgess 6831 8/10/2015 16:21:12 Dr. Larry and Sylvia Clanton 29617 8/10/2015 16:21:46 John Mears 29682 Solar is the way to go. 8/10/2015 16:21:46 Catherine Hackett 29609 Please find a better solution as an alternative to the construction of new towers for a 8/10/2015 16:23:40 Larry Gosnell 29605 transmission line. 8/10/2015 16:24:23 Graham Smith 29605 I concur with USF's concerns. 8/10/2015 16:24:59 Joan W. Henry 29631 8/10/2015 16:25:06 Brock Bauknight 29607 8/10/2015 16:25:31 Mary Beth Galbreath 29601 As a Duke Energy customer, would like to see Duke Energy drop current proposal and 8/10/2015 16:27:10 Edward Enggasser 29607 consider other options. 8/10/2015 16:27:47 Sara Ellis Lehner 29307 Please give careful consideration to the rational proposal from Upstate Forever. 8/10/2015 16:27:52 Joyce Foster 29848 I object to any routing of the proposed transmission line from Campobello,SC to WNC and urge Duke Energy to evaluate alternatives including those voiced by Mr. Wyche of Upstate 8/10/2015 16:28:35 Ronald A Malone 29690 Forever in his recent Op-Ed in The Greenville News. 8/10/2015 16:28:50 Sandra Wallace 29609 800ft of line is proposed to cut thru my farm in Gowensville. 600 ft of river and stream banks 8/10/2015 16:29:13 Cynthia Barziloski 29356 would be clear cut. Unsightly. 8/10/2015 16:30:59 Ali van den Broek 29607 Please also help stop the plowing down of every single tree on Verdae! It's positively 8/10/2015 16:37:31 Tracey Sanders 29615 depressing. 8/10/2015 16:38:49 Mark H Johnson 29651 8/10/2015 16:39:26 Sharon E. Johnson 29615 8/10/2015 16:40:27 Ned Barrett 29302 8/10/2015 16:40:47 Nadine 29615 I agree completely with Upstate Forever's request. We need to stop this potential 8/10/2015 16:43:27 Bing Somers 29455 desecration. 8/10/2015 16:43:30 Jessica Wyche 29403 8/10/2015 16:44:54 Michael Jessup 29403 8/10/2015 16:45:15 Victoria McGinnis 29615 8/10/2015 16:48:03 Nancy Hamilton 29605 8/10/2015 16:50:43 Jane Murphy 29605 Let's work together to reduce energy demand, and also use alternative energy sources such as solar, where appropriate.

Thank you,

8/10/2015 16:53:58 Annette Wells 28722 Annette 8/10/2015 16:55:45 Amy Buckingham 28651 8/10/2015 17:11:07 William d. Anderson, Jr. 29412-4508 Please scrap the transmission line and do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/10/2015 17:12:02 Robin Aleksinas 29615-4211 I fully support Upstate Forever's request. 8/10/2015 17:14:28 Joe Pulliam 29609 8/10/2015 17:21:31 Mary Lewis 229615 I fully support Upstate Forever's petition to Duke Energy. 8/10/2015 17:27:44 Jane Nicol 29307 Find another way, Duke Power!! 8/10/2015 17:27:54 Nancy Dew Taylor 29615 I strongly support Upstate Forever's petition. 8/10/2015 17:32:25 Jerry Larson 29356 8/10/2015 17:33:50 Marie Hindman 29651 Let's investigate cost effective solar power. 8/10/2015 17:36:11 Jennie Wakefield 29609 8/10/2015 17:36:38 Lawrence Dyck 29630 8/10/2015 17:37:29 Carole Eisen 29615 8/10/2015 17:40:48 Debbie Rogers 28782 8/10/2015 17:44:38 alexander alperin 29681-5119 8/10/2015 17:51:39 Chip Radford 29651 8/10/2015 17:56:32 Dhara Baiden 29617 8/10/2015 17:57:37 Margaret L. Thompson 29670 8/10/2015 17:59:54 Jacob Lassow 29617 8/10/2015 18:05:52 Teri Zahn 29643 Please help preserve the beauty of the upstate! Don't proceed with the current plan. This project has nothing to do with Duke meeting a realistic and quantifiable growth in demand for power and everything to do with Duke's guaranteed ROE as a regulated monopoly in NC. The more they waste and destroy the more they are rewarded financially.

Do not assume Duke is invincible. Contact your local, state and federal representatives and continue to pressure Duke into scraping this destructive overbuild, including construction of a smaller gas plant in Asheville, NC which would obviate the need for new power lines and 8/10/2015 18:06:21 Marshall and Beth Lawson 28773 easements through the Foothills. 8/10/2015 18:26:29 Jean B. Greer 29605 I support the petition of Upstate Forever. Please do not build the transmission line. 8/10/2015 18:33:16 sam church 29607 8/10/2015 18:35:31 kelly sparks 28782 Please don't destroy our beautiful , peaceful and historic town!!!! Please do not blemish our landscapes in SC- read all of the alternatives- Solar power is the 8/10/2015 18:45:08 Sharon M.Adams 29306 way to go. I can't imagine that some of the most beautiful farm land, conservation properties in WNC Upstate, SC could be potentially be bifurcated with a transmission line spanning 40+ plus miles and reaching over one hundred feet in height. Duke Energy please reconsider your route. Consider the individuals who have called this area home for generations and the 8/10/2015 18:47:56 Dulcinea Juenger 28782 stewards who have protected these lands. 8/10/2015 18:49:41 Peggy Baker 29687 I have not heard one person for this, and not just "not in my backyard". What I hear is not in anyone's backyard!

I worked at Furman fundraising for the Shi Center for Sustainability. It was funded in part by Duke Energy, and through solar, geothermal, etc. the house was generating enough power for other buildings on campus. Duke supported this effort and Dr. Shi even put in a system at his home in Brevard that was on a grid, so he could sell power back to Duke... with a company so innovative and research oriented, it's hard to believe they haven't put some of these techniques to use in a location where their plan will ruin the landscape and largely the 8/10/2015 18:55:51 Susan Brady 28782 livelihood of people who live here. 8/10/2015 19:03:11 Stephen Morris 28782 We must preserve and protect the natural beauty God has given us. 8/10/2015 19:11:54 Tonya ballard 28782 Don't ruin our mountains and land with these lines! 8/10/2015 19:13:35 Elizabeth Johnston 28773 8/10/2015 19:17:14 Elizabeth shanks 29609 8/10/2015 19:21:30 Rebecca Williams 28722 Stop! 8/10/2015 19:26:19 Ladson Berry 29302 I 100% support Upstate Forever's request to scrap the transmission line! We have a home in that area and feel this would ruin property values and beauty of the 8/10/2015 19:48:12 Sylvia Arnold 29607 area. This is unfair and will force many citizens out oftheir homes for the sake of profit. Please do 8/10/2015 19:56:05 Danielle Holtz 28782 not give the innocent people up for money. We are residents on Lake Summit in Tuxedo, NC and fear the negative repercussions of this proposed power line on the environment and the natural beauty which has been enjoyed and treasured by generations of our family and the families of all owners of property on the 8/10/2015 19:59:23 Eloise Gamble 28207 lake. 8/10/2015 20:00:55 Allen Gamble 28207 8/10/2015 20:01:09 Thomas A Davies 29388 Find a better way. 8/10/2015 20:03:03 W.A. Clary Jr. 29349 8/10/2015 20:09:46 Ellen Weinberg 29687 We had planned to move to Greenville County in the near future. If the vistas that we have seen in the past are marred by this transmission line, we will probably not follow through on 8/10/2015 20:10:20 Steven Lammert 15601 those plans. Clearing for and installing a new transmission line is destructive enough. The Greenville- Brevard transmission line crosses my property. Duke Energy sees fit to improve their access, but not to install any gates. So, we end up with endless four wheel traffic on the pipeline. We are responsible to stop the trespassing, erosion, litter, and liability, and Duke won't lift a finger to help. So, the offense does not stop just at installing the transmission 8/10/2015 20:16:16 Lauren Kindred 29661 line itself. Please, please protect our special places and work toward better solutions for providing 8/10/2015 20:33:16 Gloria Larkin 29615 energy. 8/10/2015 20:35:57 Sally scarbrough 29690 I am sickened by duke energys proposal and want to see it withdrawn. 8/10/2015 20:41:05 Lynne Lucas 29609 Thank you, Upstate Forever, for leading this charge. I agree with so much of your editorial. We need to push for more conservation and increased use of renewable resources. We should not be penalized for adding solar energy 8/10/2015 20:47:39 James Davis 29605 to our homes. 8/10/2015 20:48:23 Jean Snipes 28782 8/10/2015 20:49:16 Garry Snipes 28782 I agree with so much of your editorial. We need to push for more conservation and increased use of renewable resources. We should not be penalized for adding solar energy 8/10/2015 20:50:18 James Davis 29605 to our homes. 8/10/2015 20:53:44 Scottie Levi 28012 I strongly oppose the construction of the proposed new transmission line. Worse case should be the construction of two smaller plants at either end. There are already enough 8/10/2015 21:13:52 Doug Harper 29605 grid connections within the existing infrastructure. The upstate of South Carolina is a true gem. Please be responsible and pursue alternatives 8/10/2015 21:18:49 Gina McLellan 29631 to the current proposal, especially those in the form of solar and wind. 8/10/2015 21:32:19 Christopher Ridings 28782 8/10/2015 21:33:56 Mattie yates 28722 8/10/2015 21:39:51 Cindy Parker 29605 8/10/2015 21:41:37 John Schlansker 29651 8/10/2015 21:43:44 Jim O'Connor 29681 Duke should upgrade their existing routes for any new transmission lines. I support Upstate Forvever to have Duke Power stop the transmission line. I am grateful that we here in the Greenville area have people who care about and are willing to put their time and energy in informing the people of the dangers we face daily to companies whose only goal is profit no matter the cost to the people who live here and else where. We have already lost so much land do we also want to lose the the most precious thing of all, the water we need to survive. We are blessed here, but our local and state government seems to no longer care about what we are losing to create a few jobs that may come for a short period of time and the damage is done. I want my representatives to represent me not Duke Power and other companies. Sincerely, 8/10/2015 22:05:16 Patti 29609 Patti Miller 8/10/2015 22:18:47 Gerd Faulstich 29307 I am against dukes intentions 8/10/2015 22:27:42 Allison. Osteen 28782 Please do not build these. 8/10/2015 22:28:43 Steven Zahn 29643 Duke needs to be a steward of the area. 8/10/2015 22:32:19 Alice Patterson 27358 8/10/2015 22:36:34 Jeff Knox 29601 We only get one Earth. Game over man, game over. 8/10/2015 22:39:33 Jim Gill 296979771 8/10/2015 22:48:38 Martin Remick 29650 Preserve the Upstate NO NEW RIGHT OF WAY.

It is entirely feasible to run higher voltage lines using the towers currently in place. Running new towers through any of the proposed options will have devastating long term negative economic effects on the homes and businesses surrounding them, many that didn't exist on the outdated topographical and aerial maps used by Duke.

Here in Polk County our entire economy is agro/enviro based, and relying exclusively on our region's wilderness and scenic beauty. There is no proposed route that does not spoil the I- 26 gateway into Upstate SC and the gateway into Western NC.

This so called modernization project to provide a secondary backup position for the new Asheville gas plant is not modern nor cost effective nor necessary.

8/10/2015 22:53:41 Nadine Naujoks 28722 NO NEW RIGHT OF WAY. 8/10/2015 23:03:28 Whitney Blake 29356 Use those millions to fund solar hot water for residences! 8/10/2015 23:14:53 Mike Baur 29681 In addition, I would like to see plans from Duke on replacing or rerouting existing power line eyesores and ultimately remove the need for these lines as mentioned above. Solar, wind, other newer technologies would result in less visual and ecological impact on the Blue Ridge 8/11/2015 5:55:59 Kenneth B Pruitt, Jr. 29678 area. 8/11/2015 6:06:37 Toby Wolter 29356 8/11/2015 6:29:11 Linda Ketelaar 29605 Duke's focus should be on supporting solar power growth in this area. 8/11/2015 7:06:12 Polly Glover 29356 8/11/2015 7:12:25 Sloan Smith 23238 8/11/2015 7:21:48 Sherry Lance 28732 Don't mess our land up. Go away Duke "Duky" 8/11/2015 8:01:48 steve smith 23238 8/11/2015 8:15:25 Tammy Gill 29697 scrap the transmission line forever!

Why not put your "energies" towards developing a greener electrical source, ie, solar, wind?

Natural beauty is at a premium, as man has destroyed so much. SAVE the UPSTATE, save 8/11/2015 8:15:57 Dawn E Guevares 29356 our planet for all generations to enjoy...PLEASE! 8/11/2015 8:46:59 Ruud Veltman 29615 I support the options of reducing the size of the proposed gas plant in Asheville, expanding energy efficiency programs, and expanding the use of solar energy rather than constructing 8/11/2015 8:50:18 Reba Wilkins 29617 a 40-mile long transmission line across our beautiful mountains. Stop desecrating our beautiful foothills of which our upstate is known for. Protect our 8/11/2015 8:59:36 Paulastathakis 29356 environment. No new right of ways. Use what you have !!! 8/11/2015 9:02:08 Arden Wilkinson 28209 8/11/2015 9:05:45 Matthew Delfino 29607 Duke, please consider alternatives, protect our natural resources as a top priority. I support Upstate Forever's deep concern for our local environment and consider other 8/11/2015 9:08:26 Susan Conway 29609 alternatives. 8/11/2015 9:09:01 Laura Townes 29635 8/11/2015 9:15:23 Reba Beeson 6831 Duke's plan to run lines through Campbello and Gowensville SC diminishes the beauty and pristine nature of the area I chose for my horse farm. My property is in northern Greenville Co., but I have a Landrum, SC (Spartanburg Co.) address. Lines would come adjacent to my property to the point I would see them every day and directly impacts my neighbor's farms.

The project affects not only my current neighborhood, but also Landrum and Tryon/ Columbus(Polk Co. NC). This area has been my home for the last 17 years. There has to be another way to get energy from point A to B other than defacing and defoliating our beautiful countryside.

Ironically, I and those close to me, who will be directly affected, are not even customers of Duke Energy. Our power is supplied by Blue Ridge Electric Cooperative.

8/11/2015 9:20:53 Elizabeth Gokey 29356 Please research alternative plans. 8/11/2015 9:25:39 Sally Coenen 30606 Please, Duke Energy, scrap this invasive and unnecessarily expensive transmission line and to do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue 8/11/2015 9:26:49 Signe Cann 29609 Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/11/2015 9:46:32 T Granito 28139 8/11/2015 9:53:15 Allie Wilkinson 28270 I am against the proposed transmission line! 8/11/2015 9:55:26 Chris Paulsen 28773 These power lines need to be stopped. The full value of the scenic beauty of the protected lands must be considered when any condemnation is considered. I am so glad that Upstate Forever is there to protect these 8/11/2015 10:05:36 Henry Parr Jr. 29607 priceless lands. creating massive scars on our landscape to meet our gluttonous desire for more power in this day and age should be unacceptable. We need to find a better way to sate our lust for 8/11/2015 10:32:28 Brian Lube 29607 electricity. 8/11/2015 10:44:04 Hardaway Edith McBee 29605 Let me know how I can help in stoping this. I sincerely doubt the future capacity needs that Duke is claiming. And I doubt they've factored in 1) increased renewables, 2) development pressure limitations slowing growth over time in Western North Carolina, and 3) constantly improving energy efficiency in 8/11/2015 10:49:59 Shelley Robbins 29302 construction. 8/11/2015 10:52:20 carolyn grothaus 29615 8/11/2015 10:54:30 Laurie Waldrop 29615 8/11/2015 11:06:24 Tracy Hrdlicka 29687 8/11/2015 11:08:00 Carroll Gage Hunter 29615 8/11/2015 11:20:35 Laura McComb 29611 8/11/2015 11:20:48 Mike Polk 29680 Surely another way could be found to do this project. The harm to the environment of this 8/11/2015 11:36:00 Mary Lynn Conway 29322 area could be irreversible. I think your comments regarding solar are exactly on point. Solar City has a really fine business model that addresses this need. However, that model directly and negatively impacts the business model of the power companies, which calls for massive investments in 8/11/2015 11:41:51 Roger ter Kuile 28782 the kind of infrastructure we oppose. Lots of luck. 8/11/2015 11:53:17 Christina Rogers 29605 8/11/2015 12:15:51 Susan Riordan 29601 8/11/2015 12:20:10 Emily W. Davis 29611 Duke , find a better way... 8/11/2015 12:32:56 Dianne Rice 29303 I cannot agree more with the upstateforever.org statement regarding the Duke Energy proposed debacle. It would benefit Duke Energy, not those citizens whose lives and 8/11/2015 12:44:54 Marilyn Schutt 28756 livelihoods it would so adversely and irreparably affect. 8/11/2015 13:01:16 Charles Wilkins 28731 8/11/2015 13:03:11 Jason Smit 29605 8/11/2015 13:14:56 Chris Tinkler 28782 8/11/2015 13:17:42 Becky Quirk 27613 Please preserve the natural beauty of this peaceful place! 8/11/2015 13:22:26 Nancy Boatwright 29356 8/11/2015 13:22:48 Jay Boatwright 29356 8/11/2015 13:23:05 Jacob Boatwright 29356 8/11/2015 13:23:17 Ben Boatwright 29356 8/11/2015 13:23:29 Ellen Boatwright 29356 8/11/2015 13:49:00 Trina Tridico 28630 Please use existing infrastructure routes if expansion is necessary. 8/11/2015 13:53:48 steve smith 23238 8/11/2015 13:59:23 Ronald Sobczak 29651 8/11/2015 14:09:50 Woody hoyle 28782 8/11/2015 14:10:39 Emily Cook 28211 8/11/2015 14:11:54 Dawn Garber 55406 This is my favorite place in the U.S. Please don't destroy it. 8/11/2015 14:14:40 Jenn Park 29601 Please do not run you lines thru the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/11/2015 14:16:21 Benjamin Friedman 46168 Find another way. 8/11/2015 14:18:21 Greg Hall 29322 8/11/2015 14:19:49 Laura Getty 29609 8/11/2015 14:30:08 Donald S Davis Sr 29369 8/11/2015 14:36:12 Justin schutrumpf 29302 8/11/2015 14:44:15 Stephen Sykes 29301 8/11/2015 14:51:02 Kris Yon 29670

My wife and I are Greenville, SC residents, but own 92 acres in Henderson County, NC which has been in the family since 1925. Except for clearing to build a small house 35 years ago, it remains totally forested as it was in 1925. Electric power was brought in from a half mile away underground at our expense to preserve the existing landscape. Proposed route 10A would cut a swath 150 wide and over 1800 feet long through the middle of our woods, across Pinnacle Mountain Road and down the mountainside to Crab Creek Valley below. Our situation is just an example--nearly all of the 44 proposed routes will desecrate some part of the natural beauty of the Western Carolinas and will devalue the property of landowners directly and indirectly affected by the proposed routes. Lush horse pastures , woods teeming with wildlife, forest covered mountains, peaceful valley farmland, and clean rivers, streams and lakes, all will be forever changed, if not destroyed by a 45 mile, 150 wide swath of 14 story metal towers, loaded with high tension wires. Duke Energy's Foothills 8/11/2015 14:52:52 Jack H. Mitchell III 29615 Transmission project must be stopped or, at least, drastically altered and reduced in scope. 8/11/2015 15:00:56 Erika Hollis 29617 Having lived in the FL Keys for 23 yrs I've seen & experienced what big corporate dollars 8/11/2015 15:10:15 Janet petersen 29803 can do to a pristine area and it isn't pretty...... 8/11/2015 15:21:49 Tonya ballard 28782 8/11/2015 15:25:24 susan caulk 28722 8/11/2015 15:33:41 Breanne Kirsch 29369 8/11/2015 15:35:51 Linda KLASSEN 28773 One corridor passes over Lake Road just behind our property and another would cross the mountain range of Tryon Peak and Oak Mountain that we view from our home. Our children 8/11/2015 15:38:56 Susan Newlin 29356 also have a wedding venue that depends on that view. Sky Top Orchard and the surrounding areas and camps are beautiful! Please do not cut 8/11/2015 15:41:47 Heidi Nelson 27603 down their trees and build huge power towers. 8/11/2015 15:41:49 Erin West 29349 The mountains are a special place and so many have worked exceptionally hard to protect them. Let's work together to reduce our energy needs and develop alternative sources 8/11/2015 15:44:26 Laura 29609 instead of marring the landscape and the environmental and economic value of the area. 8/11/2015 15:48:48 meg massing 29690 8/11/2015 15:53:42 Randall Conway 29322 This power line will be a permanent scar on the most beautiful part of Spartanburg County. 8/11/2015 16:17:02 Trish Edgerton 29302 8/11/2015 16:29:03 Susan Whitehill-Smith 29369 Find another way to accomplish this; don't destroy the beauty of the area. 8/11/2015 16:41:30 Nancy Robeson 29356 8/11/2015 16:44:11 Kathleen Perry 29615 8/11/2015 16:46:01 Henry Martini 29615 8/11/2015 16:50:07 Linda Hudgins 28782 i am strongly against Duke's misuse of power in even proposing this atrocity to our values. 8/11/2015 17:18:00 Barbara S. Anderson 29412-4508 We live at the Cliffs Valley, where in 2001 we purchased a lot and built our retirement home along with several hundred other retirees all who have invested their savings (providing a huge and continuing positive financial and job impact to Greenville County) to live in this wonderful and beautiful environment. Now Duke Power have the audacity to propose to install this horrendous power line through our beautiful mountains thus destroying the natural beauty for ever and depreciating the value of our investment, while discouraging future investment in the area. There are better alternative ways for Duke to solve their power supply problem. This transmission line 8/11/2015 17:22:51 Geoffrey Foster 29690 proposal is an outrage and must be stopped at all costs 8/11/2015 17:26:50 Elizabeth Foster 29690 I support my husband's comments which were submitted earlier. DUKE ENERGY NEEDS TO USE THE RIGHT-OF-WAYS THEY ALREADY HAVE AND NOT DESTROY OUR PRECIOUS BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS WITH YET ANOTHER SCAR TO 8/11/2015 17:33:33 Carolyn Elsey 29356 THE LANDSCAPE. I ESPECIALLY OPPOSE ROUTE 4. 8/11/2015 17:59:52 Michael Kirk 29645 Don't ruin the Blue Ridge Mountain area. 8/11/2015 18:00:12 Brittany 29349 8/11/2015 18:10:27 jeff whitney 29681 8/11/2015 18:25:55 KATHY THOMPSON 29301 Scrap it please.. DUKE ENERGY NEEDS TO USE THE RIGHT-OF-WAYS THEY ALREADY HAVE AND NOT DESTROY OUR PRECIOUS BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS WITH YET ANOTHER SCAR TO 8/11/2015 18:30:37 Carolyn Elsey 29356 THE LANDSCAPE. I ESPECIALLY OPPOSE ROUTE 4. Thank you for protecting our land and our way of life at the same time! We all want and need to have our lights come on at the flip of a switch, yet, as you point out, there is a way to accomplish that without impacting the beauty of our area along with our property values. 8/11/2015 18:38:43 Sherry Wyatt 29672 Thank you. 8/11/2015 18:56:52 Rhonda Horton 29349 These transmission lines will have a devastating impact on the agri business and tourism in 8/11/2015 19:00:36 Martha Kemmer 28722 this area. They will not provide ANY benefit to our community, just a path of destruction. 8/11/2015 19:10:34 Henry Mitchell 29609 Duke Energy shouldn't profit from destroying our planet. 8/11/2015 20:02:45 Chris Jennings 29369 Solar, smaller and/or alternative energy options should be explored Let's look at our overall power needs. Aren't there alternatives such as reducing usage and solar/wind energy? Wouldn't it be wonderful if Clemson discovered that kudzu and 8/11/2015 20:08:33 Martha Severens 29609 cockroaches make for a great biofuel! 8/11/2015 20:20:43 Keith Bridges 28723 No new rigth of ways 8/11/2015 20:34:35 Thomas Worden 28722 Solidarity.. 8/11/2015 20:35:55 Dee Worden 28722 8/11/2015 20:41:32 Twink Lim 29316 Totally support this petition! 8/11/2015 20:52:15 Ann Herrmann 29356 Ann 8/11/2015 20:55:19 Wendell Breland 28739 Please don't destroy our beautiful foothills. 8/11/2015 21:14:06 Dustine Acosta 29607 I currently own property with huge transmission lines and towers that crosses and limits use of the most beautiful space I own and it sucks. in addition you are assaulted by an army of men with equipment spraying the entire right-of-way with herbicides to suppress the growth 8/11/2015 21:21:11 toney boozer 29661 of trees including valuable native species. The routing of the proposed transmission line would negatively impact the mountain 8/11/2015 21:29:31 Gary L Aten 29617 environment. 8/11/2015 22:00:10 Christine Efner 29617 8/11/2015 22:05:41 Cathy Terrell 29307 8/11/2015 22:33:11 Jeannie Croxton 29690 Go solar. Protect public and private property. 8/11/2015 22:36:55 Virginia connett 28480 8/11/2015 23:05:24 Jon DuRant 29607 Duke, You already have a route that you own, you do NOT need to take our land. We will fight you 8/11/2015 23:39:51 Susan Thomas 29322 until we win!!! The way Duke Energy treats the environment in general is a laughing matter.. just look at their track record. Only through pressure and loud protests that they will acknowledge their 8/12/2015 0:02:43 nehdi 29356 mistakes and will take them decades to fix things at minimum requirements. The area being condsidered goes over large area of Green River Preserve and Falling creek camp where chidren go to lean about nature and spent time in some of the most beautiful, pure, clean forests and streams in the country. this move would very likely put two well 8/12/2015 0:52:27 Suzanne Miller 30030 regarded children's camps in deep jeopardy and could result in their closure. 8/12/2015 1:31:51 Emily Lapinski 6160 This will have a devastating effect of the Green River Preserve 8/12/2015 1:46:32 Katherine Muller 29601 8/12/2015 2:41:01 Benjamin Hiltzheimer 27707 8/12/2015 2:56:34 Karim Nehdi 29356 Bury the lines!! 8/12/2015 6:15:00 chris wood 29307 8/12/2015 6:30:20 Martha Mahaffey 29316 8/12/2015 7:22:46 Erica Sumpter 28732 I support this petition 8/12/2015 7:37:28 Robin Underwood 28078-8256 8/12/2015 8:24:34 Rose-Anne Schmidt 29681 I urge Duke Energy to mitigate the loss of permanently conserved natural areas this plan 8/12/2015 8:57:49 Andrew Waters 29302 proposes. This is poorly planned. In 2015 there has to be a better way to provide electricity to the masses. You need new ideas, new concepts, new thought processes and it is obviously not happening. Cancel this and start over please. It's about us as consumers, not stockholders, 8/12/2015 9:27:34 Joseph F. Sullivan 29609 who are not affected by these horrible transmission lines... I've successfully fought Eminent Domain in Florida where it was proposed in order to provide for "future" demand. It has been ruled elsewhere that taking another individual's property, at whatever compensation, for the purpose of providing others with the ability to improve the use of their property (developers able to provide additional residential property once electrical service to that property is available) is unconstitutional. Meeting "future demand" by public utilities to private property by impacting the private property of others has been successfully thwarted in other areas and will be the required precedent to also block 8/12/2015 10:01:54 Kim Nord 28722 such attempt in this area. 8/12/2015 10:50:52 Clark Gallivan 29607 This project seems illconceived, short sighted, and potentially irrelevant in the near future. 8/12/2015 10:49:45 William W. Kehl 28690 I oppose the transmission line and particularly routes 8A and 20 8/12/2015 10:51:31 Elizabeth A. Kehl 28690 I oppose the transmission line and particularly routes 8A and 20 8/12/2015 11:41:10 Marina Carver 29356 8/12/2015 11:51:51 Jeryld Young 28790 We support the request to scrap the transmission line. 8/12/2015 13:07:34 Sloan 28790 8/12/2015 13:20:17 Rocky Menge 29205 8/12/2015 14:01:39 K Hix 29650 Objections: • All routes will be highly visible to tourists and residents, detracting from the natural beauty of WNC and impacting tourism dollars. • Property values along the route will decline by up to 40% and some dwellings will be condemned. This will result in hardship to homeowners and farmers, especially those with old family property, those who are retired and living on fixed incomes, those owning a livelihood from farming. • Reduced property values in any county will result in increased tax rates for all residents of that county. • Clear-cutting (and the resulting erosion) and herbicides will impact wildlife habitat & migration routes, trout streams, irrigation, well water, nearby farming fields and orchards. Aside from disturbing wildlife habitat, the right-of-way will drive more wildlife into nearby private properties. • In addition to the impact on property values, hardship will be created for families with young children near the power lines, livestock that will require new fencing, orchards that have to be cut to 12’, any crop likely to be impacted by herbicides (there is a strong organic farming culture in WNC), the requirement to allow access to the right-of-way. • Old family graveyards and sacred areas such at that used by Lutheridge to scatter ashes will be impacted by proposed line 17B.

Questions: • Has an independent study been done to verify your projected 15% usage increase? • How much of any increase could be met when you convert the coal-fired plant at Lake Julian to natural gas? Can the gas-fired plant at Lake Julian not be expanded to meet new demand? • If there is a transmission station in Campobello now, why not increase power coming to that station from a source in SC? • What environmentally-friendly power sources (solar, wind, buying back power from individuals…) have been assessed as a means of meeting any projected shortfall? • How seriously have you looked into running buried lines down 26? Initial costs may be more expensive, but buried lines are less dangerous to humans and wildlife, less likely to suffer environmental damage. And there will be no new properties impacted. • If you feel you must move forward, why not piggyback onto lines now running thru Mills River and Brevard to reach SC? Right-of-way has already been established and there would 8/12/2015 14:38:04 Linda Marchant 28732 be no new impact on nearby properties. Due to the many options available to Duke Power, namely by reducing the size of the gas plant in Asheville and avoid the transmission line entirely I oppose Duke Power's request. Just the discussion of this line has had a negative effect on land prices in the area. Why 8/12/2015 14:40:56 Melodie Fulbright 29302 would we ruin the beautiful landscape when we have other options. Why create this unnecessary eyesore to the land that brings tourist and resident economy to the upstate? Duke is being short sighted to not work toward efficiency and solar power-the REAL future of energy!

8/12/2015 15:41:43 Pam Shucker 29609 PLEASE do not develop this plan! 8/12/2015 15:59:31 Brian Clark 29649 These mountains are too beautiful for more, ugly lines. 8/12/2015 16:11:37 Polly Slater Glover 29356 Thanks for your efforts. 8/12/2015 16:30:17 Debra Carroll 29650 8/12/2015 16:33:48 Thomas Worden 28722 Bury the lines if needed at all, which I doubt. 8/12/2015 16:36:05 Dlee Worden 28722 We need to take into account conservation efforts that have been made and are continuing. 8/12/2015 16:48:16 Wade Sherard 29617 8/12/2015 17:28:48 Ron Osburn 29643 8/12/2015 19:05:41 Rebecca Hartness 29650 I agree completely with Upstate Forever that Duke needs to scape this project which will destroy the natural and built environment and undermines the economic stability of the 8/12/2015 19:30:20 Cynthia Jenkins 29356 region. Duke needs to find a less invasive way to meet their needs. I agree completely with Upstate Forever that Duke needs to scape this project which will destroy the natural and built environment and undermines the economic stability of the 8/12/2015 19:32:33 Cynthia Jenkins 29356 region. Duke needs to find a less invasive way to meet their needs. 8/12/2015 19:50:44 Helen Vasudevan 27106 8/12/2015 20:22:51 Elizabeth Youngblood 28715 8/12/2015 22:05:44 Jennifer Horton 29681 I reside in Greenwood, SC and own a second home near Zirconia, in Henderson County, 8/12/2015 23:15:56 Nicholas Beasley 29649 NC. There has got to be a better way! We are a certified Organic Farm located on the pristine French Broad River, in Mills River, NC. Building massive power lines through the mountains and valleys of our gorgeous region seems archaic thinking. Even European countries have buried power to preserve beauty and provide safer and more effective and futuristic means of transferring power. We need to think outside "the Box" to create better environments for everyone. Not just the Power Grabbers and their stock holders. Are not the land owners who have worked and sweated to feed this nation just as important as all the folks ",moving in". ?? Put the lines underground--if they cost more--let everyone pay the price, not just a few farmers and landowners who have suffered to preserve the beauty and the view-sheds. We oppose any more overhead power lines. They are not only unsightly but they are dangerous! Duke Energy needs to be a good neighbor! Many years ago Duke was respected--their employees were involved in community programs and projects--the company would go to extreme measures to listen to the public concerns, thoughts, and wishes. What has happened? Our families have farmed this area for over 150 years. How do we tell our children their way of life, their land and resources for generations has been ended by 8/13/2015 1:06:02 MARILYN F. COLE 28704 corporate giants. Where is our heart? 8/13/2015 5:31:01 Barry Griffith 29697 8/13/2015 5:44:46 Judy Ferrone 29615 8/13/2015 6:15:04 B.E. Womick 29307 8/13/2015 6:32:45 Joseph K. Maddox,Jr. 293307 Yes, no Transmission Lines. Why do this to this beautiful area. We just tubed on the beautiful Green River. 8/13/2015 6:39:18 K Bright 29332 STOP IT! 8/13/2015 6:41:10 WM BRIGHT 29332 Please do not put that line through the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas 8/13/2015 7:14:16 Nikki 29205 in a way that harms the area. 8/13/2015 7:35:14 JoAnn Brewer 29649 We moved here from NY for the beauty in this area. We do not want more visible power lines. There are already enough. Please find some way to utilize the existing high-power lines as you move forward with this project. And instead of building a new sub-station, how 8/13/2015 7:52:55 Christine Wilde 29322 about re-tooling an existing one? 8/13/2015 8:48:42 H F Gallivan III 29690 8/13/2015 9:04:39 Paul Greene 29607 I'm extremely disturbed by any number of things regarding this entire proposal, from the questionable payment for private land acquisition to the disregard shown for land 8/13/2015 9:07:26 Mark J. McCall, MD 28782 conservation. We moved here in 2013 because of the beautiful scenery, the small towns and the people. There are downsides - small town life. You can tell that our communities are dependent on tourism and the influx of retirees. If Duke goes through the Landrum area, you can say "good-bye" to a number of people and our small towns will suffer - let alone SC and NC 8/13/2015 9:10:43 Beth Rounds 28782 counties. Our area is not rich and cannot take a hit with Duke scarring our area. IF this project proceeds - the collateral damage to lives, homes, landscape, our pristine natural beauty, local economy, and a myriad of other issues would be overwhelming and inexcusable! It would certainly be a natural consequence that Duke Power would suffer as well, though not commensurate with what it inflicted. You will become the most hated utility company in the world! Of course, that would presume Duke values its customers more than its bottom line. You have failed to prove this project to be anything other than a revenue 8/13/2015 9:26:50 Kathy Ratliff 28773 booster for Duke, and a "boondoggle" which disregards all those damaged. 8/13/2015 9:33:13 Marty Cobb 29649 8/13/2015 10:01:25 Walter and Mary Van Metter 28756 DOWN with 8/13/2015 10:16:34 Robert Maxwell 28782 "Duke"! You have my detailed letter on file . . The line, if you really need it, should be underground just like pipelines. Your lines pollute the air and whom ever came up with route 10b must have been out drinking that day .....Do not pollute the skyline with more ugly wires .... Go 8/13/2015 10:23:40 Bill Arnold 29649 underground! 8/13/2015 10:57:14 Kristen King 29322 8/13/2015 11:08:20 Christina Sprecher 29607 Duke--do this right and be associated with positive change and not business as usual! 8/13/2015 11:13:54 Katie Gallivan 29607 8/13/2015 11:20:45 DeWitt Stone 29631 There are other ways for Duke to generate and manage power in this region. I am a Duke Power shareholder. We should not do this even if it helps improve our 8/13/2015 11:37:15 Sara Kummer 29666 company. Some things are more important than money. 8/13/2015 11:56:24 Kathleen Kempe 29651 8/13/2015 12:16:26 Beth Cole 28704 8/13/2015 12:17:29 Jeanne Brown 29566 Please do not spoil the beautiful land in the upstate of South Carolina. 8/13/2015 12:54:08 Larry Doris Wilson 29322 The visual encumbrance created by these HVTLs has a negative impact to residential property values upwards of -25% and up to 1/4 mile distance from the location of the lines. Only those properties directly crossed by lines and towers are compensated for their financial loss. Those properties adjoining the HVTL right of ways become uncompensated collateral damage. The public perception of health concerns, visual encumbrance, environmental damage, audible noise from Corona Discharge, radio noise and televsion interference due to Corona Discharge, and FDA established interference with cardiac pacemakers and implantable pacemakers will permantly destroy an established way of life. Areas known for pristine natural beauty and vacation locals experience widespread regional losses. Areas with no established manufacturing industry which are reliant upon travel and tourism, outdoor recreation, and retirement relocation will realize significant economic erosion to these primary industries but also to supporting and spin off industries such as restaurant, accommodations, real estate sales, construction and retail. There are alternatives to this outrageous proposal by a corporation with an abysmal environmental track regard and total disregard of the financial impact to the citizens in favor of the financial gain of share holders. With an electricity demand which remains flat no need for this project has been established. The proposal call for a N/S pathway yet multiple proposed segments connect substations and travel E/W. As the risk of homeland terrorism increases all future construction of essential infrastructures such as power should be constructed via Deep Bore Tunnels which require little to no additional right of way condemnation due to existing ROWs, provides for easy maintenance, protects lines from severe weather damage and 8/13/2015 13:45:55 debra stephend 28790 mitigates visua impact, environmental damage and, Corona Discharge. 8/13/2015 13:55:57 Janice Thomas 28722 8/13/2015 14:00:56 Mary Bennett Greene 29607 I am a regular visitor at lake summit and my family and I are just in love with the nature beauty and the efforts made around here to include constructions with minimal impacts to mother Nature. I am horrified to see that once again, a big corporation in order to save money is threatening nature and its ecosystems !! in the name of money, every day projects like this awful transmission line cut through properties, preserves, nature paths, etc, and destroy way further than the simple path they go through. While they could use industrial/commercial paths already established, they still take no considerations at the destruction and environmental impacts this project is baring. I am disgusted, and I really hope that people like me will let their voices be heard in this matter ! Power is in our voices, 8/13/2015 15:33:50 Mathilde Galla 77551 we can stop this !! 8/13/2015 15:51:40 Russ Madray 29601 We oppose Duke Energy's plans to put in either route 20 or 8a as either will destroy pristine 8/13/2015 16:04:24 Peggy Thornton 28790 forest lands , water sources and farms that have been in families for generations. 8/13/2015 17:05:20 Ryan Floyd 29649 8/13/2015 17:10:04 Brent Adcox 29642 Leave our beautiful Mountains and foothills alone! Duke Energy has threatened my home. This proposal would have devastating and irreversible impact on my family's livelihood and well-being.

Duke’s haste and lack of respect for our land would scar the mountain vistas across our county, force use of herbicides on our land and put our people at risk of EMF poisoning. It would contradict the sustainable intent that the mindful residents in these valleys have cultivated for decades.

– Expediting this project is unnecessary and disrespectful

– Existing infrastructure / corridors MUST be used if at all possible

– Support the ideals of the people – underground lines, solar, wind – and we’ll help offset the cost of clean energy.

8/13/2015 17:35:26 Garnet 28726 Protect our mountains and keep the ideals of our people alive. 8/13/2015 17:49:46 Rip Major 29605 8/13/2015 18:04:13 Claudia 28742 8/13/2015 18:11:39 Blane Stephens 2879 8/13/2015 18:51:52 John Kehl 29605 8/13/2015 19:10:00 Steven Regnet 80241 This plan calls for the demolition of my friend's family home. 8/13/2015 19:29:16 Susan Williams 29605 I am a property owner adjacent to route 20 8/13/2015 20:52:03 Kyle Porter 29671 Stop the Transmission Line!!! 8/13/2015 20:57:59 Debbie Laws 29673 Please scrap this project! I am writing as a former camper, counselor, and mentor of the Green River Preserve. This one-of-a-kind outdoor education facility and nature camp would be severely diminished by the presence of these lines and the accompanying clearing. I intend for my two daughters to attend the same camp I did, to hike through the same woods, to view the magnificent scenery, and to play the same untouched woods I did as a child.

8/13/2015 21:20:17 Dan Chase 28803 Find another path for your power lines. 8/13/2015 21:49:32 Ian Cochrane 28759 8/13/2015 22:09:53 Sara Lynn Postma 29302-3439 I support your petition 8/13/2015 22:13:11 Susan, davis 28722 8/13/2015 23:05:03 Linda Sue von Rautenkranz 22311 I love this area of the south and still own a home near there - this should not happen. 8/13/2015 23:10:47 Rene Marse 70123 This would impact my favorite vacation/ retreat spot. Please choose another option! We do not want Duke Power to cut a path through Western NC. We do not want high voltage wires running over head. This project will polute and devalue land. it will scar the earth and displace animals. The electro magnetic waves put off by such wires will continue to harm the land, animals and humans for as long as electricity runs through the wires. "Studies" that say otherwise have been carried out by companies that stand to benefit. It is time we stop allowing corporations to harm the environment in order to profit. It is shortsighted. It is not right for Duke Power to be allowed to carry out this project in order to benefit the company and its stockholders. The pristine land that will be disturbed can not be replaced. Native plants and animals will be lost. Lands now dedicated to healing, rest, renewel and recreation will no longer be available for use. The costs of the project to the 8/13/2015 23:58:49 Virginia milton 28757 people, the land and the animals is far too great to allow Duke Power to proceed. 8/14/2015 6:38:22 Karla 28739 8/14/2015 7:06:35 Angie honohan 29601 PLEASE honor current occupied lands and legal trusts-find a route that avoids existing land trusts, occupied homesteads and properties, and stay in unencombered areas-there are plenty of routes available that avoid cotested, occupied lands (be it by land owners, trusts, endangered flora or fauna.

PLEASE. Be responsible business that looks for the least invasive route, even if it costs a bit more. Do not be one of "them" who just take the shortest route to financial gains. Think sustainability. Think proactive. Think of future generations. Think of the fact that the land is what sustains us, but the people pay the bills.

8/14/2015 8:45:00 Beverly Greene 28732 Be responsible. Please and thank you. 8/14/2015 9:04:03 Gary Hayler 29681 8/14/2015 9:28:52 Jeremiah Lutz 28803 Duke Energy-please embrace alternative energies. We can meet the growing demand by investing more in Solar, Wind, etc. Compared to other regions in the country-it is my 8/14/2015 9:49:07 John Franklin 29617 impression that the Southeast lags far behind other areas of the country in this arena. I am opposed to Duke Energy's proposal relative to a power substation in Campobello, especially the proposed routes 8A and 20, and fully support the request made by Upstate 8/14/2015 11:29:37 G. Lee Cory 28790 Forever. 8/14/2015 11:51:37 Pamela Leverett 29640 8/14/2015 12:31:29 Betty Perry 29617 Duke Energy-please embrace alternative energies. We can meet the growing demand by investing more in Solar, Wind, etc. Compared to other regions in the country-it is my 8/14/2015 13:06:33 John Franklin 29617 impression that the Southeast lags far behind other areas of the country in this arena. My wife keeps a horse in North Carolina and rides along trails that will be affected by this 8/14/2015 13:10:59 James Weeks 29307 plan. 8/14/2015 13:56:15 Jose Nigoa 29307 Our state's beauty and environmental safety are more important than the gas industry. To Duke If you go forward with your plan , you will be signing a death warrant for the economic revival currently taking place in Polk County, NC and the Upstate of SC. In addition, your actions will cause property values to decline by 1/3 with little hope of a rebound ever. My husband and I are retirees and were depending on the value in our home to pay for us as we age and need care. Ther are many like us throughout the area. 8/14/2015 14:09:16 Martha Love 28756 Martha and Harry Love 8/14/2015 14:15:43 Don and Jean Arthur 29690 We love our wilderness. 8/14/2015 14:31:08 Bud Slaker 29615 8/14/2015 14:56:10 Gaines Huguley 29601 8/14/2015 15:21:36 Sherry Leslie 29617 Please do not damage this beautiful area! 8/14/2015 15:59:45 Susan Mckeown 29609 I grew up in upstate SC in view of the mountains. We hike and fish there now. Please don't 8/14/2015 16:04:09 Melvin & Melinda Mckeown 29745 reuin what upstate SC has. 8/14/2015 16:29:38 Rose 38117 Stop Duke Energy from destroying our environment. 8/14/2015 17:31:09 Todd Cox 29356 Stop Duke Energy from destroying our economy. My property on 17B of eastern route will be adversely affected! Other beautiful and environmentally sensivitive areas will be harmed. If the line is necessary, why not locate it along I-26 which is already impacted. 8/14/2015 18:56:33 William Wells 28792 Please object vigorously! 8/14/2015 19:41:30 Anne Marie 29332 Please, no. 8/14/2015 20:55:27 Katie Poore 35406 8/15/2015 1:14:10 Bill Compton 37215 8/15/2015 7:02:19 Anthony Dietrich 28731 Stop this environmental disaster. 8/15/2015 7:22:19 Judith Dietrich 28731 I live in Spartanburg, SC but board my horse in Polk Co., NC. I adore the beauty of this entire area and the many outdoor activities that it provides. To see the land blighted by these ugly towers and lines would make me sick. Although not a land owner, I am concerned for the people who do live in the area. They came to the area for the mountains, forests, streams and the wonderful close to nature experience they have day to day. Duke 8/15/2015 9:27:45 Regina Weeks 29307 energy, please don't disfigure nature's gem. 1. Stop the waste! 8/15/2015 9:36:27 Melinda LaFoy 29601 2. Focus on local, renewable energy sources! 8/15/2015 14:48:35 Terry Sadowski 29690 8/15/2015 17:52:55 Margaret Harrell Mansour 29445 I am a farm owner in Tryon North Carolina, this project is absolutely unnecessary. The recent innovations in solar power make it an affordable and viable option to this 8/15/2015 18:18:03 Jennifer Labbe 28722 unnecessary installation of these towers. 8/15/2015 19:44:46 eden lewis 28739 Don't destroy lovely places like Kanuga conference in Hendersonville. 8/15/2015 19:45:22 Elizabeth Livingston 28739 8/15/2015 20:03:35 Karen Davis 28731 8/16/2015 8:40:59 gary wilson 29356 I strongly support Upstate Forever's statement of opposition AND suggestions for alternatives to this project. The solution is in investments in increased efficiency and alternative energy sources, not just building additional generation stations and transmission 8/16/2015 14:00:33 Francesca Fried 29601 lines running willy-nilly across the landscape. 8/16/2015 14:50:04 Sue McDaniel 29356 It will ruin the pristine beauty of our home. 8/16/2015 14:50:24 Harriet Spencer 28722 Please use the present swath through the mountains to expand the transmission towers/voltage for the needed areas of our communities. All this right of way 150' destroys the property owner's land and the farmer's fields. Even Duke Power warns about not getting too close to the towers because there is a danger to the public. That's why you need to use the existing swath through the 8/16/2015 16:42:47 Roberta Sedgwick 33903 mountains. 8/16/2015 18:15:57 Nancy Fitzer 29609 Finally, and with great appreciation there is a substantive, yet very easy to understand petition to sign. The new generation of solar technology is far more sophisticated and efficient than solar panels. Charge Duke Energy with pursuing these emerging technologies 8/16/2015 20:55:31 June Uhler 29302 . 8/16/2015 22:13:46 Bonnie Sinatro 28722 8/16/2015 22:35:12 Roberta Cart 28773 Well said! 8/16/2015 22:39:51 Dale W. Turner 29687 Please stop Duke! UPSTATE FOREVER is a godsend without a shadow of doubt! What would Greenville county, etc. look like without you at this point? I have been a member since day one and will always be grateful for all of you beginning with the Wyche's.

God bless, 8/16/2015 22:46:06 Beverly Turner 29687 Beverly Turner I am particularly concerned about Pearson's Falls, as well as the degradation of the natural beauty of our entire area. 8/17/2015 9:34:17 Eva Pratt 29349 Please help us. 8/17/2015 9:59:38 Meredith Gower 29609 8/17/2015 10:16:14 Chris Starker 29687 8/17/2015 10:28:53 Pat Sheehan 28773 Please don't ruin the beauty of our natural environment with transmission lines. If you need to get electricity to another area, please put the lines underground.

8/17/2015 10:34:34 Sandra Sammons 28782 Thank you. The transmission lines proposed for the uplands are environmentally destructive have a possibly negative effect on the economy for eco-tourism and farm based business and an 8/17/2015 11:26:18 Tanaya Ambrosio 29630 eye sore. We the world need our wild spaces. We moved here twenty two years ago to a restricted neighborhood with family owned land bordering our neighborhood. We even contacted that family before we purchased our property and they said they would never develop it. This is our forever dream home! This project would impact our property value and sandwich us between two power line routes one already runs thru our neighborhood but farther away. Regardless of the studies we have saturated cases of cancer throughout the neighborhood and strongly believe this could be related to existing power lines due to long term exposure...we are sick and scared of this project. The very core of all we hold dear is being shaken we haven't slept and feel totally vunerable! Why must we suffer for a project that benefits people 45 miles away in another 8/17/2015 12:05:28 Debbie Noland 29322 state! UNBELIEVABLE WORST NIGHTMARE! PLEASE STOP THIS PROJECT! Utilize alternatives to taking land and marking the mountains in one of the most beautiful 8/17/2015 13:35:43 Charlene R. Patterson 29356 areas in the country. 8/17/2015 13:39:52 Jeff Wolf 29607 I support Upstate Forever's request and strongly oppose above ground transmission lines! Please do not destroy our local environment and quality of life with these transmission 8/17/2015 15:52:59 Mark McAtee 29651 lines!!! 8/17/2015 16:06:39 Mark Giguere 20009 8/17/2015 16:09:26 Adam Roberts 29617 Please don't do it. 8/17/2015 16:09:47 Bryan Haltermann 28739 Please scrap this project. 8/17/2015 16:09:48 Don Hudson 29601-1518 Please stop this effort by Duke and protect our mountains. I definitely agree that Duke needs to find another way! This is such a beautiful part of our 8/17/2015 16:10:45 Stephanie Hance 29607 state (NC as well) and I can't imagine how damaging this project will be to the area. 8/17/2015 16:11:26 Kathleen Johnson 29617 Please scrap the transmission line! 8/17/2015 16:11:56 DAVID JOHNSON 29615 Use UF's route. 8/17/2015 16:12:39 DARRELL 29037 The mountains in our area are a treasure not to be violated by such ugly structures. 8/17/2015 16:12:40 JOE ASHLEY 29613 I suggest that you follow the centerline of I-26 down to Campobello. 8/17/2015 16:13:07 Joe Pollard 29605 8/17/2015 16:14:51 Jeffrey Randolph 29615 8/17/2015 16:15:47 Mim Shelden 29349 8/17/2015 16:16:05 Brittany McKee 29349 Duke needs to seriously consider alternatives to this proposed power line and leave the 8/17/2015 16:17:07 elaine brummett 29617 mountains and foothills alone. 8/17/2015 16:25:39 Brooke Reed 29609 As a hiker who frequents the mountains and state parks of SC & NC I am already stunned by the vast number of large transmission towers that already mark the landscape. We do NOT need any more. We need to stress efficiency, conservation, and alternate types of energy.

8/17/2015 16:27:28 Martha Severens 29609 It would be interesting is some one counted how many tires are out there! 8/17/2015 16:28:46 Linds Ayliffe 28805 8/17/2015 16:29:35 William A Ranson 29671 8/17/2015 16:33:22 Kenneth Perrigin 29650 there must be a way to provide power without despoiling the landscape - I just gt back from Penna, where TMI (MetEd) has made SUCH a visual mess - surely that an be avoided with 8/17/2015 16:35:28 Kate Landishaw 29365 some care for the community (none of which MetEd has, to say the least) - 8/17/2015 16:37:31 Linda G. Schmidt 32694-4418 The last thing I want to see going over and through the Blue Ridge mountains are a bunch 8/17/2015 16:41:30 Kyle Munley 29690 of Transmission Lines. No thank you! 8/17/2015 16:41:56 Charles G. Whitmire, Jr. 29601 8/17/2015 16:42:28 Mona Simmons 29615 8/17/2015 16:46:52 william a. carpenter 28704 8/17/2015 16:47:34 Sandra stricker 29672 8/17/2015 16:52:32 Nikki Grumbine 29601 I'm against the construction of this transmission line. There is much evidence it is not necessary. This appears to be another instance of Duke buding infrastructure to give them 8/17/2015 16:52:56 Betsy George 29661 an excuse to raise their rates. 8/17/2015 16:58:16 William D. Anderson, Jr. 29412-4508 8/17/2015 17:02:29 Mary Ann Fox 29678 8/17/2015 17:03:49 Carmony Corley 29630 8/17/2015 17:04:36 Charles E Fox 29678 8/17/2015 17:04:37 Jack Cebe 29605 I AM CONCERNED THAT DUKE IS NOT CONSIDERING THE NEGATIVE IMPACT TO THE ENVIRONMENT BY THIS ACTION AND THE NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE LAND OWNERS AND HOME OWNERS THAT IT WILL IMPACT. PLEASE GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND FIND A BETTER SOLUTION. OVER THE YEARS, DUKE HAS HAD AN EXCELLENT REPUTATION FOR CARING ABOUT THE LAND AND THEIR CUSTOMERS. I HATE TO SEE YOU GOING THE OTHER WAY WITH THIS PLAN.

THANK YOU.

8/17/2015 17:11:48 ERWIN MADDREY 28784 ERWIN MADDREY 8/17/2015 17:19:14 Jennifer Howard 29601 I support your request. 8/17/2015 17:20:34 Brandon Leard 29607 I support your position. 8/17/2015 17:27:50 Dana Gonzalez 29649 Why should an area that is just now experiencing some economic growth because of its beauty and rural nature be. Sacrificed to provide more power for a city that is as popular and 8/17/2015 17:33:33 Bettie Runnion 28790 wealthy as Asheville? 8/17/2015 17:35:11 alexander alperin 29681-5119 Please use your existing right-of-ways. 8/17/2015 17:46:39 susan dean 29306 Turn over a new leaf by doing no harm! 8/17/2015 17:50:06 William Blaesing 29356 We do not want it nor need it. Do the right thing - find another way. Choose what's best for the long term. Serve the 8/17/2015 17:50:59 Jon Grier 29607 future, not stockholders in the present. Electrical energy is important to our modern way of life, but so is the quality of life provided by our natural world. As we make more energy demands of our environment, we, in turn, risk decreasing the quality of the very ecosystem that draws us to the area. Duke Energy needs to seek a more eco-friendly solution. Ugly power lines and towers crossing this 8/17/2015 17:54:10 Russell Burns 29360 beautiful land are not acceptable. 8/17/2015 18:05:36 Alicia 29651 We do not want these powerlines! 8/17/2015 18:25:18 Scott Montgomery 29302 NO to 12A. It is altogether a poorly thought out project. 8/17/2015 18:43:43 Klaus Westerwelle 29651 8/17/2015 18:50:50 Elizabeth O 29631 8/17/2015 18:57:35 Jill Hagist 29650 I wholeheartedly oppose this project; it would be a death knell for this beautiful area of the Carolinas...... home to over 60 summer camps, and also training grounds for paddlers, cyclists, equestriennes, mountain climbers, etc. We would rather have spotty electrical power than spotty mountains, polluted water, poisoned animals( hello, we see the stuff your guys are spraying under power lines, and it's not RoundUp!) , and we want you to find 8/17/2015 18:57:35 Helen Carmody Stroud 28790 another option. Period. I have been coming to the mountains of North Carolina all my life! This Project needs to be stopped as it will have devastating consequences, both environmentally and economically to 8/17/2015 19:08:43 Izzie Stroud 77389 this area. Other than nuclear war, a more nightmarish scenario is hard to imagine. 8/17/2015 19:19:16 Sue Gilot 6330 We need to save the natural beauty of this great country! 8/17/2015 19:47:20 John Millon 29640 Scrap the transmission line! 8/17/2015 19:48:16 Connie Lippert 29672 8/17/2015 19:54:47 Paul d lister 29651 Please don't erect this transmission line. Use some other environmentally friendly way of 8/17/2015 19:56:06 Cathy Frazier 29609 achieving your goals! I think this Transmission Line will do unnecessary harm to the environment and be a huge 8/17/2015 19:59:30 Mary E. Satterfield 29601 detriment to homes and businesses in the area. 8/17/2015 20:05:17 Ann Loving 28782 Running transmission lines in the fashion intended ruins beautiful mountains for miles and miles. On top of that investing in natural gas in South Carolina is an ignorant folly. This state gets huge amounts of sun light and the money should be invested in solar energy not fossil 8/17/2015 20:08:56 George Greiner 29690 fuels. Please don't desecrate the most beautiful part of South Carolina for an economy of scale. 8/17/2015 20:19:10 Philip Press 29617 Scale down the Asheville plant and meet South Carolina's energy needs more responsibly. 8/17/2015 20:21:23 Dick Childs 29642 8/17/2015 20:25:01 Thomas Wood 29690 8/17/2015 20:25:05 Jean-Marie 29615

This line shows no respect for our mountains, drinking water, intelligence, or future generations. May you take pride in focusing on the green, renewable energies that your service users would prefer and may you be so bold as to attract national attention for your 8/17/2015 20:25:59 Catherine Stroud 28784 daringly innovative methods. Our quality of life should reign superior to your greedy pockets. 8/17/2015 20:29:46 Courtenay 77380 South and North Carolina, north Georgia and Tennessee all pride themselves with our magnificent Blue Ridge Mountains. Income is generated from businesses offering new jobs and taxes from both those businesses and retirees settling here. The retirees are looking for the pristine, quiet, open vistas that our region has to offer. No one wants to have power lines hanging over their homes, property or farm land. Duke Power, although admittedly offering increased power to meet the demands of our incoming newcomers, is pushing away those very same people. If the new lines are installed, people will not move into our communities therefore negating the need for increased power. I for one, beg you to find another way to meet the needs of population growth. Let our beautiful mountains and country sides remain in their natural state. We do mr need swaths of felled trees along our mountain ranges. Please, find another way to accomplish the demand. Our farmlands and horse farms are invaluable as is our power. There is a way to work together to meet both desires. I trust you 8/17/2015 20:30:09 Mary Marchant 29605 will search it out and meet it. Thank you. I support the efforts of Upstate Forever to "scrap the transmission lines" of Duke Power's proposed project in the foothills of South Carolina.

David L. Hamilton 104 Newkirk Way 8/17/2015 20:34:20 David L. Hamilton 29690 Travelers Rest, SC 29690 8/17/2015 20:45:50 G.B. Edwards 29621 8/17/2015 20:47:22 Heather Herdt 29607 Protect our mountains! 8/17/2015 20:48:28 Randall Conway 29322 8/17/2015 20:51:52 Sarah Hesshaus 29601 There must be an alternative. Read Mr. Wyche's article in the Greenville News - it makes 8/17/2015 20:56:11 Judy Roth 29696 sense and could be a solution... 8/17/2015 20:56:48 Kathryn Overstreet 28739 There are many other, less intrusive ways to transmit electric power, surely. There are no 8/17/2015 20:57:59 Dianne S. Fergusson, Ph.D. 38655 other ways to make mountains or create this magnificent scenery. Keep our upstate green! 8/17/2015 21:00:43 Frank Loving 28782 8/17/2015 21:05:10 BRENDA J ROCHE 29635 8/17/2015 21:07:00 Calven Prosser 29609 Please scrap these plans, which would not only impact the environmental present & future of our Blue Ridge Mountains and foothills, but which would do great economic harm to an astoundingly beautiful part of our country that people visit because of its natural beauty and 8/17/2015 21:11:49 Katherine Crawford 28712 resources. 8/17/2015 21:12:51 Angie Kenny 29605 Plans for this need to be halted. 8/17/2015 21:31:23 Cindy plating 29605 8/17/2015 21:36:45 J. Jones 28805 Good work 8/17/2015 21:44:20 James Pharr 28806 8/17/2015 22:01:44 Lindsay Pharr 28806 All anyone need do to "get the picture" -- or part of it -- is to look at what those monster lines did to the west end Eastatoee Valley, in Pickens County, and what was once the most astonishingly beautiful vista in upper South Carolina. Hard to believe, but that obscenity would be dwarfed by this current proposal. It is NOT Duke's prerogative to string wires all 8/17/2015 22:21:06 Dot Jackson 29671 over God's breath-taking creation -- most especially when there are BETTER ways. 8/17/2015 22:26:19 Amy Buckingham 29651 Please consider using only the properties you already have ownership of. 8/17/2015 22:31:47 Robert Buckingham 29651 Be smarter about how you do things. The ash spill and now this? Jim Rogers is making solar lanterns in Africa... Why not try 8/17/2015 23:03:08 Alexa W 30021 going green on your home turf? 8/17/2015 23:22:19 Joe Crowther 29607 8/18/2015 0:09:07 Rob Mayer 29673 8/18/2015 0:31:09 Elizabeth Barmore 28607 8/18/2015 1:05:03 Whitney Eure 28801 I live in the Dana community and am seeing lots of surveying and natural gas workers on a pipeline on Academy Road. Use of city water was made available recently because of contaminated wells.. they are using this city water to clear the way for the pipelines.. or so I fear.I would appreciate any feed back on this subject... wondered why the concern over a few contaminated wells.. AHA!!! moment for me.. when I saw this petition. Wonder if my 8/18/2015 2:26:56 Darlyn Maurer 28792 neighbors know??? 8/18/2015 6:14:14 Ingrid Bravo 29681 8/18/2015 6:17:59 S. Nicholson 29609 You are proving that you are not concerned with our environment, the beauty of our 8/18/2015 6:35:37 Carroll M Wilson 29671 mountains, or the health of our citizens. You can do better than this. 8/18/2015 6:46:40 Tom petersen 29650 8/18/2015 6:58:31 Terry Taylor 29615-1309

8/18/2015 7:41:19 Loretta Forbes 29635 Save our Blue Ridge beauty! Do not construct high transmission lines through this treasure. This is precious land that has been set aside for conservation purposes. There are better 8/18/2015 7:44:38 Sally Coenen 30606 ways to address the power needs. 8/18/2015 7:56:23 Hugh Thompson 30518 I moved to the Upstate in 1983 because of the incredible beauty of our nearby mountains. This beauty feeds our souls... as well as our tourism economy and the quality of life that draws people to settle here. I am astounded that a power company might be allowed to destroy our precious resource! There are alternatives! Please pursue a way that will not 8/18/2015 8:03:38 Pat Dilger 29601 impact our environment and our local economy. 8/18/2015 8:05:11 Donald & Frances Plotnik 29630 Duke must reconsider this illconceived plan. 8/18/2015 8:16:57 Susan Sullivan 29609 8/18/2015 8:23:51 Jennifer Hincapie 29609 Although we all know and appreciate the need that Duke Energy fills for our everyday lives, we hope that Duke Energy also appreciates the beauty we have in our upstate. Please be a good neighbor and steward of our land and find another way to run this transmission line. 8/18/2015 8:33:09 Lura Godfrey 29609 Thank you. How about instead of finding ways to use mo're energy we find ways to use less energy? I'm 8/18/2015 8:39:58 James Clinkscales 29692 interested in the future of our planet not jobs or marking the power companies richer. 8/18/2015 9:17:27 Annie Sutton 29621 8/18/2015 9:19:35 Trey 29601 8/18/2015 9:20:17 Laura Harmon 29322 I am totally opposed to a line, in general, and more specifically opposed to a line that 8/18/2015 9:22:38 Winn Maddrey 28204 crosses on/near to Lake Summit in Tuxedo, NC. Thanks. 8/18/2015 9:23:43 Rodney Acker 29607 8/18/2015 9:24:53 Ed Lilly 28739 8/18/2015 9:29:45 T. Sam Ziady 29037-8838 This summer was the 70th summer that our family has had a lake residence. We must see that the environment is protected and saved for the generations to come, and if we do not, then we have failed in our responsibilities. There must be other alternatives for Duke-maybe not the least expensive, but this should not be the governing factor where the environment 8/18/2015 9:33:49 Herbert Moses 27615 may be changed forever. 8/18/2015 9:39:16 Lisa Hallo 29630 I agree with all of the comments made by Upstate Forever and in addition this would cost me personally well over a million dollars in money alone. If Duke should prevail I would suggest that they be held responsible in paying to restore all vegetation and trees with a very massive and expensive restoration in conjunction with their construction of towers at 8/18/2015 9:56:34 Ben M. Cart 28773 the same time. 8/18/2015 10:03:51 Anna Callon 20015 8/18/2015 10:04:36 Carolyn Smith 32513 STOP THIS Bad idea all the way. If NC will not allow homes to be built over 45' to keep from distracting 8/18/2015 10:06:36 Mel L Dias 29605 views how can this be allowed? 8/18/2015 10:06:39 John Ayers 20015 Dear transmission line planners, We urge you to reconsider cutting a wide swath through the beautiful North Carolina mountains to erect enormous structures destroying the ambience of all who love this pristine environment to provide power for Asheville. It seems unfair and disrespectful. Surely your talented engineers can devise a more thoughtful plan to provide power for an area beyond us. 8/18/2015 10:06:56 Jacquelin Bennett 28773 Thank you. Jacquelin Bennett 2077 South Lake Summit Road. 28773. If Asheville is the area in need, why not put the line there or, a better idea, underground. I 8/18/2015 10:07:51 Elizabeth Carr 28782 live next to a line already and it is an absolute eyesore. There has got to be a better way. I am willing to pay more for electricity if lines can be put underground. Natural beauty and 8/18/2015 10:17:11 Merike Tamm 29302 ecological health are priceless! 8/18/2015 10:23:07 Maggie Kleger 29601 GoodPerhaps day. put I’m new writing lines thisnear letter the linesto you that in oppositionalready go tothrough Duke Energy’sthe area...is planned that possible? “Modernization Project”. The reasons for this opposition are based on many factors. I am also extremely concerned about a trend in North and South Carolina politics where former Duke Energy employees are being appointed to key positions directly affecting energy and environmental policy.

Duke Modernization Project Opposition

Reasons for opposition to the project include the disregard Duke Energy has exhibited in their proposed transmission line routes through the South Carolina Foothills, the Blue Ridge Escarpment and the highlands between Saluda, Hendersonville, Fletcher, Mills River and Skyland, NC. The proposed routes include areas containing conversation and environmental easements, historical sites, land trusts, housing developments and areas focused on equestrian farms and businesses.

The Foothills region’s open space and development of equestrian pursuits has had a long history in the Tryon, NC and Landrum, SC area. At one time, the area hosted 4 separate Fox Hunting Clubs and boasts the Foothills Equestrian Nature Center (FENCE), Harmon Field and the new Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC). Horse enthusiasts, retirees and business supporting the Equestrian Industry have found the Foothills area a great place to invest and thrive. The proposed substation in Campobello, SC and transmission lines, cutting a 150 foot wide, 45 mile swath with towers up to 192 feet high will create an eyesore and will degrade the aesthetic and real property values residents and businesses throughout the area.

Reasons well documented in numerous sources, including Duke Energy’s 2014 Annual Report, have stated that power demand in North and South Carolina is on the decline. Additionally, energy production capacity in North and South Carolina are 26% higher than peak demand on the highest hour of consumption on the highest day of usage annually. The industry standard is a number closer to 14 – 16 percent.

Duke’s proposed energy sharing plan under FERC Order 1000 is 0.2% out to 2029. This doesn’t indicate a utility company willing to comply with FERC 1000 or willing to participate in this important and sensible mandate. 8/18/2015 10:36:18 Terry Schager 29356 In short, Duke does not need to increase generation capacity and if it were a team player, 8/18/2015 10:39:19 Dixiemarree Prickett 28704 8/18/2015 10:41:27 Wade Sherard 29617 8/18/2015 10:44:09 Karen Crawford 29615 Please preserve our land for future generations! Really? There has t be a better way in 2015! Underground? existing lines? 8/18/2015 10:48:45 Donna Sullivan 28790 Put on your thinking caps? This is about us as consumers, not earnings, not stockholders. Please let's find a better solution. Any alternative proposed by Upstate Forever is better for 8/18/2015 10:52:56 Robert A. Bryant 29325 all. It's difficult to understand that in spite of impending changes to energy distribution and the continuing benefits of energy efficiency that still Duke Energy "requires" yet another damn 8/18/2015 10:53:16 Louis Brand 29685 awful scarring corridor through this uniquely beautiful area. Lou Brand If you must put in a transmission line from Campobella to Asheville, please run it through the northern part of the state and away from vacation lakes (Lake Summit) and towns like Hendersonville, flat Fock and Saluda.

If this can be done in another way than a transmission line above ground, please do so. Ralph S. Robinson, Jr. 41 N. Sunset Lane 8/18/2015 11:01:34 Ralph Robinson, Jr. 28054 Zirconia, N.C. Duke should use existing line paths. There is no need to destroy more trees and vegetation 8/18/2015 11:11:26 Chris Yaroch 29356 in this era of climate change. 8/18/2015 11:52:01 Jim Buschur 29607 8/18/2015 12:05:22 Hamilton Barnes 30340 Please do not run this line through Camp Old Indian!!! 8/18/2015 12:18:53 Jason Childs 29671 This project would forever damage and dissect critical areas of wilderness. 8/18/2015 13:08:02 Reid Tate 30341 8/18/2015 12:58:34 Tommy E. Quick 29301 Please scrap the transmission lines. This "enhancement" is not necessary. Give Asheville the additional power it needs and PUT 8/18/2015 13:05:56 Irene Howell 29302 IT IN ASHEVILLE. Please do not do harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains, plus the harm it would cause to people, wildlife and to environmental. People come from all over the USA and other countries to visit the Blue Ridge Mountains, 8/18/2015 13:08:00 Serena D Mackey 76801 Serena My niece lives in Asheville & I have always admired her beautiful photos of the blue Ridge 8/18/2015 13:10:42 Anne Woodard 14850 Mountains & vicinity. Please do not destroy this glorious beauty!!! 8/18/2015 13:26:25 Denise Trahd 60614 Duke needs to reconsider the routing of any transmission lines through one of our area's most unspoiled areas. There are better and less damaging alternatives. I support Upstate 8/18/2015 14:11:39 Marshall Goers 29662 Forever's objection to this project. The Blue Ridge Foothills are one of the greatest treasures of the Upstate of South Carolina. The efforts of many have done a remarkable job in preserving the vistas and recreational opportunities these mountains provide. The Duke Energy plan would devastate this treasure and put mockery to those who have worked so hard to preserve this environmental and 8/18/2015 14:17:47 Louis Astle 29681 economic keystone of the Upstate. 8/18/2015 14:21:59 Joshua Johnson 28722 8/18/2015 14:28:10 pat baker 67203 8/18/2015 14:47:08 Victoria Henson 29642 Terrible idea; we are entering the age of solar power and this is a waste of resources. 8/18/2015 14:53:16 Carol Fisher 29605 I am also writing on behalf of the Blue Ridge Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Thousands of boys from not just South Carolina, but also North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee, get to be outside learning in this beautiful and safe environment. The landscape of this area is one of our best resources economically for tourism as well as for conservation of rapidly disappearing natural land. Another way has to be found to create 8/18/2015 14:59:12 Margaret Oakes 29609 these "improvements," which would actually ruin much more than they improve. Please do not run this lines thru our counties. As the former Economic Development Director for Polk County, NC, I can emphatically tell you that this will irrepairbly damage our 8/18/2015 15:04:31 Libbie Johnson 28782 economy. 8/18/2015 15:08:33 Amie Blankenship 29609 I support Upstate Forever request. Upstate Forever petitions Duke Energy to scrap the transmission line and to do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental 8/18/2015 15:29:38 Mary Bush 29615 harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/18/2015 15:35:09 Mary Walter 29605 It would be a travesty to see these lines destroy the beauty of Lake Summit. One, if not the, most prestigious bike touring companies has a tour that circles the lake. Please look for an 8/18/2015 15:35:58 Gregory Lee Robinson 28790 alternative solution. My husband and I have had a cabin on White Oak mountain for 13 years. We have a grand view into SC. We would be heartbroken to have that view obstructed by an transmission line. It would negatively impact the natural experience we enjoy every visit and it would 8/18/2015 15:38:23 Jane Royal 29801 have a sad effect on our investment into this property and community. While I do not live in the area, this is an area that my family and I love to visit. We love hiking in the mountains, looking for waterfalls, etc. We do not want to see any projects that 8/18/2015 15:41:37 Katrina 30647 would destroy any of the areas that we love to visit. Please make every effort to keep the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains and the 8/18/2015 15:42:04 Susan Robbins 29607 Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/18/2015 15:42:49 Rachel Vann 29609 8/18/2015 15:53:28 Pace Beattie 29601 This would create an eyesore in the beautiful mountains of NC. Please help stop it! 8/18/2015 15:55:09 Bille DePauw 29687 Stop 8/18/2015 16:07:09 Kevin Carithers 29651 8/18/2015 16:10:41 Linda Church 48326 8/18/2015 16:45:07 Dan Shaw 29206 8/18/2015 16:58:50 Kate Ambrose 28211 8/18/2015 17:01:19 Zack Taylor 29609 8/18/2015 17:15:02 Sheri Hudak 76227 Leave this beautiful land unspoiled 8/18/2015 17:26:06 Linda B Hardman 29651-7403 8/18/2015 17:29:11 Allan Jenkins 29609 If they can run cables under water across the ocean, why can't they put an underground 8/18/2015 17:57:11 Dale Stierwalt 28790 cable in western North Carolina and not destroy a very beautiful place? 8/18/2015 18:12:06 Amber C Broadwell 76542 8/18/2015 18:24:57 Cole Williams 28731 Hits close to home. 8/18/2015 18:27:22 Nancy Hill 31093 8/18/2015 18:32:54 Carol Fowler 29205 8/18/2015 18:36:31 Emily Moss 29605 From what I understand, this transmission line is unnecessary but its projected path would cut through many of the most beautiful parts of the mountains and foothills. I would urge Duke to reconsider and figure out a better way to provide energy. They should follow Germany's lead and encourage solar and wind energy. It is amazing how many roofs there 8/18/2015 18:41:09 Jeannette Winn 29605 have solar panels, and we have a lot more sun than they do. 8/18/2015 18:47:55 Sharaine Cone 29388 8/18/2015 18:53:46 Marshall Winn 29605 8/18/2015 18:56:46 Hailey Vosburg 77518 8/18/2015 19:20:40 Dianne Culbertson 29645 8/18/2015 19:28:38 Barbara Reid 29640 8/18/2015 19:34:26 Nancy Weinhagen 28773 Don't do this to the mountains 8/18/2015 19:34:51 Deborah Adams 29520 We've been putting power lines out of sight in cities for decades. Why should we start 8/18/2015 19:56:34 Charlie Carpenter 29206 putting them in our most beautiful places? 8/18/2015 20:04:52 shane goranson 29201 8/18/2015 20:08:25 Joseph Custer 29322 8/18/2015 20:16:21 Donna Potts 29689 8/18/2015 20:31:04 Shelley Alexander 28782 Stop Duke NOW 8/18/2015 20:32:08 Teri richardson 32792 8/18/2015 20:32:28 Cynthia Bennett 28806 8/18/2015 20:37:41 Harry Shucker 29609 You can certainly use existing right a ways rather than ruin people's future. This area is crisscrossed with transmission lines already. Use the existing rights of way & 8/18/2015 20:52:51 Lu-Ann 29640 quit gobbling up our land. 8/18/2015 20:53:52 Susan smith 29650 So, so sad a power company can match in and do what they want to this beautiful land. 8/18/2015 20:59:21 Jim McGinnis 29615 Our children attend camp in this area. They hike and filter their drinking water here. The base camp at Green River Preserve uses well water. Both these water sources would be negatively impacted by the herbicides used to clear the land under the transmission lines. Please search for other rights of way that won't impact this area: specifically segments 8B, 8/18/2015 21:05:22 Elaine Vong 60048 10A and 4. Duke must be stopped. Where will this end? North Carolina is too beautiful to be ruined by 8/18/2015 21:07:50 Millie McCandless 28731 giant rights-of-way and power lines. My child attends camp in the area. Please think of our children's future, along with the 8/18/2015 21:12:43 Kari Highstead 29575 people who live here year round. 8/18/2015 21:13:14 Christy Capps 28790 Totally against this!!!! 8/18/2015 21:18:54 Paula Feldman 29206 8/18/2015 21:20:20 John Capps 28790 8/18/2015 21:35:09 katharine crawford 28773 8/18/2015 21:40:49 Karen Patterson 28739 PLEASE do NOT continue with this project! Specifically, the Green River Valley is a place of rare beauty and ecologic value. Many people camp, hike, play and fish in the area of the Green River and this project would devastate the water quality and local animal/plant 8/18/2015 21:51:43 Dr Katherine Harper 27012 habitat. 8/18/2015 22:01:49 Neville Withers 29681 Please scrap the transmission line and do this project in a way that avoids economic and 8/18/2015 22:22:50 Analia Camarasa 28078 environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/18/2015 22:37:53 Rosemary Armelline 10705 Please keep the land as it is 8/18/2015 23:08:35 Esmeralda Ramirez 78586 These towers are so ugly, and they are not safe for living things near them. Find another 8/18/2015 23:29:28 Linda Forrester 29607 way, Duke! It would be much more efficient to use solar energy. Not to mention less ugly. Why would 8/18/2015 23:35:58 Stephanie Hauser 29206 you even think of putting more towers on the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains? 8/18/2015 23:52:31 Chris Coney 28778 8/19/2015 0:24:04 Heather Epps 27282 Please do not go through with the transmission line! Doing so would destroy beautiful scenery and take away the ability for people of all to explore, connect and learn about nature. The Green River Valley is home to two summer camps that facilitate and encorage 8/19/2015 0:27:45 Sarai Blanco 27214 this type of life changing growth in both children and adults. Please do not take that away. You must avoid putting this power line and substation through our special places here in the foothills and Blue Ridge Mts. Front range. For years many landowners have developed this area into a senic wonderland for all people and generations to enjoy. A gigantic power line through this area would be a travesty!! 8/19/2015 0:56:24 Dick Carr 29302 Dick Carr 8/19/2015 1:27:36 Ashley Edwards 28803 Thank you! 8/19/2015 2:25:12 Gretchen Hall 23226 Please bury the transmission lines like they do in beautiful Europe. Please spend a few 8/19/2015 4:12:06 Charles Meli 28756 more dollars to keep our country beautiful. 8/19/2015 5:05:35 Lenette Sprouse 29316 8/19/2015 5:43:46 David White 29697 No! 8/19/2015 6:58:16 Anna Holleman 29601 8/19/2015 7:24:26 Eric & Lynn Turner 28782 8/19/2015 7:25:41 Jenny Border 53520 8/19/2015 7:31:16 Geoffrey 28756 Bury the line! This project will devastate our communities and destroy natural beauty of the area. It will 8/19/2015 8:06:07 Charles Harris 28756 also impact property values and economic activity. This proposal is a horrible idea. You must consider alternative energy sources. Other parts 8/19/2015 8:12:17 Carol Kreson 29621 of the country are so far ahead of the south in this thinking. Stop ruining our environment. 8/19/2015 8:14:42 michelle arthebise 77042 Destroying natural beauty and adding pollution. My son is a camper at Green River Preserve (GRP) and my family has been a part of Green River Preserve since it's inception. The proposed transmission lines have the potential to destroy the beauty and pristine environment that are fundamental to the heart of GRP. Disrupting the natural state of these mountains would be to devastating to the land, plants 8/19/2015 8:24:32 Meredith Connell 32259 and animals who call that land home. Please find a different path. 8/19/2015 8:26:51 Deborah Schmitz 29625 I feel strongly that other energy sources and alternatives need to be considered. 8/19/2015 8:47:10 wayne steinberg 29301 8/19/2015 9:02:41 Susan fox 77057 please be kind to the environment and people of the Carolinas --and everywhere! 8/19/2015 9:11:13 rose plaia 13839 8/19/2015 9:13:37 Randy Rhodes 28792

I join with Upstate Forever in urging Duke to find an alternative to the proposed transmission 8/19/2015 9:22:21 Matt Dunbar 29601 line through some of our most precious natural resources in the Blue Ridge mountains.

I have been coming to the Hendersonville, Tuxedo, Tryon area all my life, and the unspoiled beauty takes my breath away. Cutting 100 wide swaths through forested foothills, mountains and orchards is a sin against nature! We will never get that beauty back again, once you have destroyed it, so you had best think of an alternate plan. Did you not read the Pope's 8/19/2015 9:27:20 Pete Aubry 77380 recent encyclical on the environment? I am not even Catholic, and I know he is right on! I have a home on Lake Summit, and for over forty years I have gathered children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and friends here to enjoy the beauty of this lake and area. Now, I have heard there is a good possibility that I will be looking at two 140 feet tall transmission, high voltage power lines from my screened porch." Modernization" is not 8/19/2015 9:37:48 Toinette Jacobs 28790 worth this assault on Nature! I would rather go without power a few times a year! 8/19/2015 9:59:40 Mary Killoren 29302 8/19/2015 10:03:59 Michael Davidson 28756 Please protect our open spaces. Find another way. We hike and camp in DuPont and surrounding areas and do not want land destroyed. Protect the camps, especially Green 8/19/2015 10:04:45 Ann Thomas 28739 River Preserve with this proposed line will directly affect. Please consider other power alternatives that avoid disturbing the pristine nature of these 8/19/2015 10:06:40 Tom Johnson 29615 foothills of the Appalachians. 8/19/2015 10:06:52 Ella Roberts 28716 8/19/2015 10:08:10 Debbie Fletcher 29229 Come on, Duke . . . haven't you destroyed enough?? 8/19/2015 10:14:25 Erin Setzer 28443 The very idea of putting a transmission line through the Blue Ridge Mountains is unacceptable! Our green spaces are critical to our overall well-being and I do not support this proposal. I would much rather see Duke develop plans to expand the use of solar energy and be more sensitive to solving our climate challenges without destroying parts of 8/19/2015 10:24:01 Beth Cecil 29302 our natural forests. 8/19/2015 10:27:39 Ann Cornelson 28790 8/19/2015 10:54:03 Inga Carr 28790 I oppose the 40 mile transmission line thru the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. I agree with Upstate Forever in petitioning Duke Energy to scrap the transmission line and to do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge 8/19/2015 10:56:15 Mary Cloonan 29607 Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas. Please, please reconsider!!!!! The green River Valley needs to be preserved and respected. I have over 10 years of the greatest childhood memories made throughout that land, and it's my hope my two young boys will get to cherish that same beautiful space. What you are 8/19/2015 11:03:14 Sarabeth Krulock 19333 proposing will destroy far more than memories... Please reconsider. move power lines away from Lutheridge Camp near Arden NC! The chapel there is in the proposed location & many cremated remains that Christians wanted scattered there would 8/19/2015 11:08:38 Ken Anderson 30040 be lost! 8/19/2015 11:13:31 Stephanie L Compton 28718 Other solutions are available to Duke Energy. I am adamantly opposed to Duke's plans for 8/19/2015 11:40:57 Glenn Brady 28756-7608 new high voltage transmission towers. 8/19/2015 11:52:03 Tad cannon 29302 Concerned citizen of lake summit 8/19/2015 11:52:48 James LeMoine 29681 8/19/2015 12:03:25 Rhonda Johnson 29372 Please don't scar our majestic mountains!! 8/19/2015 12:06:55 LJ Cannon 28799 Please scrap the transmission line !!!!!!!!!! We are vehemently against the transmission line. In addition to it's interference to the environment we pay so much to maintain, it's a huge hindrance to our property values. It is 8/19/2015 12:20:14 Christine Morrison 28773 not necessary to tear down Lake Summit and its surroundings! Duke power has started getting the office ready in Landrum that they will be using. It is next door to Curves. This tell's me that the project is going ahead, as planned. Big Corporations doesn't care what kind of damage they do. Just as long as they make there Millions. And 8/19/2015 13:03:31 Louise Mittelstadt 29356 after it completed we will pay for it. Our power bill will be much higher. 8/19/2015 13:24:02 Sally Cannon 29403 Even though initially underground utilities cost more initially, doesn't research indicate over that a period of 15 years, it is more cost effective to place the cables underground due to 8/19/2015 13:55:13 Debra D Stierwalt 28790 above ground repairs, maintenance and outages? 8/19/2015 13:59:27 Brian Williams 28732 Please do not proceed with this unwanted, unnecessary transmission line. It is of no benefit to the residents of this area. But would destroy its beauty and endanger our health 8/19/2015 14:31:48 Rosy Schlueter 28782 and our land values, STOP IT thank you Rosy Schlueter This is an extremely bad idea! Apparently you, along with Gov. McCrory, think that the destruction of a unique, beautiful area that is highly dependent on tourist revenue should be fracked and then clear-cut along the path of giant transmission towers - for your profit. 8/19/2015 14:42:13 Barbara Sanders 29615 SHAME ON YOU!! I do not want Duke Energy to ruin our beautiful Foothills and Blue Ridge Mountains with their destruction of pristine areas with transmission towers and deadly herbicides and EMFs. We need to protect these natural resources or people will lose their health, their access to the beautiful natural beauty and their property value. The destruction of our region with unsightly and dangerous transmission lines will destroy our economy, and eventually raise everyone's taxes. I cannot understand how people in power at the company, and legislators who are former long term employees of Duke be allowed to take away what we value so 8/19/2015 14:45:08 Carol Beth Icard 29356 much. 8/19/2015 14:53:55 Samantha Serrani 29651 8/19/2015 14:55:44 Lynn Culbertson 29644 PLEASE DO NOT DESTROY OUR MOUNTAIN I support the Upstate Forever petition to stop Duke Power from building lines through the 8/19/2015 15:05:15 Kay Daniel 29605 Blueridge Mountains and Carolina foothills. 8/19/2015 15:09:31 lauren gillin 18708 8/19/2015 15:12:30 Sue Gilot 6350 Save our natural resources for our children. Without them, there is no future! 8/19/2015 16:09:35 Arlene Ramsey 29662 There's got to be a better way than destroying all this land. 8/19/2015 16:21:20 Deborah Brown 29349 8/19/2015 16:27:23 Melissa Oates 29607 8/19/2015 16:31:41 Kathleen Jennings 29356 8/19/2015 16:33:22 James Gresham 29356 8/19/2015 16:46:34 ginger 28480 I cannot bear the thought that our most beautiful areas would have this awful blemish. I'd 8/19/2015 16:56:17 Marion C. Norwood 29607 rather have a little carbon! Duke has not publicly even tried to make the case that the transmission lines are needed. A Canadian company makes the case that underground transmission lines cost about the 8/19/2015 17:18:09 Richard and Anne Predmore 29322 same as above ground, don't harm people, animals and birds, and never break. This beautiful and unique piece of land is very special to all the campers and families that have had the opportunity experience it. I sincerely hope duke energy reconsiders their proposed towers.

8/19/2015 17:24:05 Robert patton 28078 Robert Patton Our property (37 acres w/ house, stream, waterfalls, &wildlife) on Pearson Falls Rd. adjoins the Saluda Land Trust property on the Pacolet River. Land owners in this area are keen to keep Open Space. Many of us in this Pacolet River area own undeveloped acreage, for the sheer pleasure of quiet & our natural neighbors. Presently the only blight is your transmission lines. Please do not add to it. Do something meaningful - besides selling cheap 8/19/2015 17:25:10 Jenne Stoker 28773 light bulbs to atone for your sins! 8/19/2015 17:26:40 Kathy Kuklinski 16505 Always about $ 8/19/2015 17:56:02 Sylvia Arnold 29607 8/19/2015 18:26:13 maxcy boineau 29601 There has to be another option 8/19/2015 20:00:52 Kathy Angier 28773 Don't ruin the natural beauty of our mountains! Scrap the transmission line and do this project in a way that avoids harm to the mountains 8/19/2015 20:02:23 NANCY PIERCE LITTLE 29206 and foothills of South Carolina. I live near Saluda NC and the transmission line where ever it goes will impact me. Use 8/19/2015 20:52:51 Joan Lawarre 28773 your existing lines or run it down I-26. 8/19/2015 21:07:55 Dot Cooley 29681 We, the People, request ceasing any lines carrying dangerous materials, going 8/19/2015 21:15:07 Brenda Dyer 37709 underground! The towers are such a blight on our country. Just "STOP" 8/19/2015 21:15:50 Debbie McDermott 48154 Please don't ruin the mountains! I own property at Lake Adger which will hopefully be my home in retirement. The scenic 8/19/2015 21:32:41 Stephen Glenn McLean 72143 beauty of that area would be harmed greatly by this project. I own property at Lake Adger which was purchased due to the scenic beauty of that area. This project would greatly reduce the value of that area due to the negative impact on the 8/19/2015 21:35:30 Stephanie Edwards McLean 28139 natural views in that area. 8/19/2015 21:45:47 Karen Crawford 29615 Please preserve our land for future generations! 8/19/2015 21:51:38 Sharon Downing 29607 Find another way! 8/19/2015 23:30:44 Ronald Tate 29605 8/19/2015 23:52:51 John C. Darrohn 29609 Our mountains are a treasure. Please protect them as you power our towns. Thats why we 8/20/2015 0:02:31 Alexandra Tait 28806 live here. 8/20/2015 6:18:33 LIZ YORK 29650 8/20/2015 6:19:20 Christy 29680 I use the foothills trail quite often 8/20/2015 6:40:40 Bets Mckee 29307 The destruction of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills takes away something irreplaceable; there is no excuse for this when better alternatives (alternate energy) are available. My own experience with Duke @ a public utilities hearing on net metering was an attitude that the public's desire to preserve the earth for our children gets in the way of the 8/20/2015 6:43:11 Julia Frugoli 29630-8956 bottom line, and NOTHING trumps that. I hope they have grown a soul since then. 8/20/2015 6:54:43 Kathy Wright 29307 8/20/2015 7:16:12 Emory Hamilton 29605 I question the need for this project at all as I don't believe that the Duke projections for the increased energy needs in this area are valid. Shutting down the polluting coal fired plant in Asheville should have been done years ago. The new NG plant should be able to supply the Asheville area for years to come without the need for this sub station and transmission line. If (and this is a big IF) the need for this upgrade is valid then why isn't Duke using the latest technology for burial of HVDC transmission lines as in the Champlain Hudson River Project 8/20/2015 7:40:47 Seinwel Steinhart 29322 www.chpexpress.com. 8/20/2015 7:21:04 Andrew T Crosland 29302 Please do not build this power line. Keep the mountains and foothills beautiful! Energy is important but not at the cost of ruining 8/20/2015 7:21:23 Rebecca Lutes 29730 our natural beauty and environment! 8/20/2015 7:31:25 Kathleen DiNatale 77550 this project would do damage to the local economies of these communities and is not the 8/20/2015 7:43:48 Stephen M. Cain 29302 best option considering available technologies.

My residence is in the Saluda, NC mountain area which will be impacted by the proposed transmission line. The Saluda Mountains nestled on the edge of a vast wilderness area protected by the Greenville Watershed could suffer irreparable damage due to the construction of the transmission line & corridor. This region is home to many endangered plant and animal species which will be displaced and natural habitat destroyed by the power line construction. It is also documented that invasive plant species can easily be introduced and thrive along power line right of ways which will be detrimental to native species.

The economic impact could be detrimental due to reduction of property value, loss of natural beauty, and loss of tourism dollars. The South Carolina "Mountains To Sea" Palmetto Trail could be impacted along several sections of the proposed transmission corridor in the Blue Wall Preserve, Hog Back Mountain/Brushy Mountain section, and along the Heatherly Heights Road/Saluda Mountain section.

I oppose the routes that have been offered for consideration. One possible solution could be upgrading the existing corridors/transmission lines and increasing the load capacity 8/20/2015 8:20:05 Jim Kelly 28773 without destroying surrounding land. I am in full support of all the concerns and petition presented by UPSTATE FOREVER to avoid economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and our beloved 8/20/2015 8:31:52 Deborah Ferris 29607 Carolina Foothills. Please increase the use of solar power and encourage people to conserve energy. These are better alternatives than building a huge transmission line to the plant in Asheville. Please 8/20/2015 8:50:32 Jane Harlin 29643 don't ruin our beautiful upstate. 8/20/2015 8:51:09 Stacy Turner 29681 We do not want our mountains and valleys marred by a transmission line. There must be 8/20/2015 8:58:40 Judith Prince 29650 another way to accomplish your goal. Unbelievable project. It will affect the people who live in its path, the tourism business, and our ability to re-sell our property if and when we want to.

How did the power co. manage to transmit power when there was a working coal fired plant at asheville?

WNC deals in and depends on mountain beauty and without it we might as well be Pittsburgh or Detroit.

Seems like Mr. McCrory has done his job well for his former (still?) employers. Time to sell 8/20/2015 9:31:16 Mary Hooper 28705 my Duke stock, I think. 8/20/2015 9:32:41 Susi Smith 29605 8/20/2015 9:36:16 Emily Moore 29607 They need to find a better way. Disrupting green space has been done too much of late because it is the easiest solution, yet it is the solution that cannot be remediated once accomplished. Use other solutions to meet the growing energy needs in our region. For goodness sake - subsidize solar panels for residential areas if we need more energy 8/20/2015 9:39:07 Sarah White 29670 produced. Help home-owners become part of the solution. 8/20/2015 9:50:17 Carol Schenkel 29307 8/20/2015 9:54:08 Michael P. McDunn 29609 Do not build this transmission line! 8/20/2015 9:59:06 Ron Cann 29609 Ancient technology. 8/20/2015 10:07:44 Rachel Davis 29607 Please do not build this transmission line! The transmissions lines that already run through Jones Gap park are a scar on the landscape and degrade one of South Carolina's most beautiful places. I strongly oppose 8/20/2015 10:09:23 Nathan Galbreath 29601 insertion of more towers and transmission lines through the blue ridge. 8/20/2015 10:31:28 Richard G. Ballard 29615 8/20/2015 10:32:38 PHYLLIS KURECKI 28732 8/20/2015 10:34:01 cathy Adamson 29360 Please keep my home state beautiful! 8/20/2015 10:36:17 Jamie Damico 28021 Please look at other alternatives or use existing easements that will not harm the economy of the Foothills of the Carolinas. We do not have industry or other opportunities for our citizens especially children to find jobs and stay in their home area. The location of these 8/20/2015 11:01:57 Joseph C Nichols 28782 lines will greatly decrease the economy we have now and in the future. 8/20/2015 11:06:11 Wesley Sheehan 28722 I refuse to accept this action brought on by GREED! Let's learn from Sub-Saharan Africa. We don't need any more transmission lines. We need 8/20/2015 11:08:18 Lance Howard 29630 to decentralize the grid. I have registered my opposition through other petitions, Duke's "comment" form directly to Duke, & through the SC Public Services Commission. I'm glad to add my name to another. One of the proposed routes would directly impact me, cutting through the middle of some pasture/woodland, making the land worthless. The property value of my house, adjacent to this corridor, would plummet, & the property become unsaleable in the future. One of my neighbors has been trying to sell their house, in order to move to another area for a better job opportunity, & a recent sale offer fell through as soon as the prospective buyer found out about the Duke project. How is Duke going to compensate people for this massive land 8/20/2015 11:12:08 Richard J Vogt 28722 grab, as if any compensation could replace what would be forever lost & ruined? 8/20/2015 11:14:40 Sage Eden 29678 Stop the Duke Energy Transmission Lines for the benefit of Asheville, NC and no one else. If anything go underground along I-26 and property where they have easements. 8/20/2015 11:24:49 Alice Slaughter 29356 Alice Slaughter Will RUIN the beauty of the mountains surrounding Lake Summit as well as devaluing residentual property around the Lake and making long time prestigious Camps such as Mondamin, Greystone and Camp Green Cove not as desirable for future campers who 8/20/2015 11:55:42 Agnes Still 29302 come from all over the country for the beauty and serinity of this location. 8/20/2015 12:03:50 Beth Carson 28773 What is modern about defacing and damaging a beautiful natural resource?? The transmission line and substation in Spartanburg County is not a necessity it is a bucket list. Duke by tapping into their 550KV line in Spartanburg County allows Duke to complete the entire Asheville plant update at a much slower timeline. Duke wins by offsetting immediate costs to update the plant and spacing out the plant project. Duke wins by eventually building an unnecessarily large plant and having lines, that once the plant is on line, can be used to tie into the grid to sell power out of our area. The Upstate and foothills lose by having a large scar through the heart of its most profitable and unique landscapes and receives absolutely no benefit what so ever by Duke’s profit based endeavors. Close evaluations of their September 2014 IRP indicates no necessity for any destruction of the upstate of SC. The assertions that this is for the public good is false. Asheville needs more 8/20/2015 12:21:23 Scott Homstead 29322 power and this can be accomplished by much less extravagant and harmful ways. There is an alternative to cutting through our beautiful countryside. This madness should be 8/20/2015 12:25:19 Jessica Greve 28782 stopped immediately! Find another route. The end. As a resident of Lake Summit for 78 years, I have sat on my porch and looked at the beautiful mountains across the Lake. Please do not put ugly power lines through these mountains. All property values will go way down as well as desirability to attend some 8/20/2015 12:31:29 Reddick Still 29302 prestigious Camps located on this Lake. 8/20/2015 12:40:10 Robbie W Hambright 29322 8/20/2015 12:44:10 Jack Cebe 29605 I am on this band wagon!!!! No towers running through our property that we have worked so hard to take care of for our families!!! Stick it out of site if you must and do not destroy 8/20/2015 12:45:32 Amanda S Mitchem 28792 everything Hendersonville, NC has worked for, it will destroy the lives of all of us! As an alum of Camp Greystone, Tuxedo, NC, a tax payer, a voter, and a prompt-paying customer of Duke Energy and member of this community for the last almost two years, I do 8/20/2015 13:08:01 Ann M. Denson 28739 protest the placement of this High Energy Transmission line thru this area. 8/20/2015 13:17:52 Gloria Verrecchio DVM 29356 Building this transmission line would be a disaster on many levels. 8/20/2015 13:48:27 Russell Woods 28722 8/20/2015 14:31:47 Dickie Stewart 29671 Greenville and the surrounding areas have many points of beauty that will be damaged by this project.All of this beauty is why people live, work and visit our area--this project goes 8/20/2015 14:35:31 Vanessa Ames 29621 against all of this. Please do not bring this damage to our area. 8/20/2015 14:36:57 Daniel Stroud 28790 don't put the powerlines up you assholes. Fuck YOU! 8/20/2015 14:48:12 Amy Correll 28722-5500 To put those horrible giantic power lines through any area is criminal. So many people poured their time, and money into preserving our upstate lands in upper Greenville county so that future generation could enjoy our natural beauty. Now Duke Energy is trying to ruin this area forever. Their past history shows they care about the money rather than being stewards of the land. Just like coal ash these power lines will cause major harm, physically, 8/20/2015 14:53:18 Clara Rogers 29356 visually, and ecomically. Please consider that alternate energy sources are on the brink of being much more viable and in a few years, transmission lines will be obsolete. it will take many more years than that to undo the damage to our beautiful foothills. Make us proud to have Duke as our 8/20/2015 15:20:07 carolyn ashburn 28773 energy provider. Please! 8/20/2015 15:21:58 Krissie Red 28792 The destruction of family property and dreams for our Grandchildren, endangering neighborhoods and some of the rare natural beauty left in our county is not a workable plan. There has to be a safer, kinder way to do this. Back to the drawing board guys. This is 8/20/2015 15:39:16 Nancy Westall 28791 devastating. 8/20/2015 15:39:46 Laura Graziano 28730 Not convinced on scrapping the new grid system, but I understand that more folks will want to share the beauty of our area. Would like to see some common sense on Duke Energy's behalf. Power Towers are 19th century technology. Use buried lines and if at all possible adjacent property to I-26 so as not to create yet another blemish on the vista. We the 8/20/2015 15:51:23 Matt Ketcham 29356 consumers are going to foot the bill anyway long term! This project is unnecessary. Duke has the ability to produce more energy than we can consume in SC through the use of its nuclear facilities. In addition, these lines will go through some of the most beautiful, scenic, and ecologically diverse areas in SC & NC. Too many people have worked to protect this area -- including the tireless work of Naturaland Trust, the Nature Conservancy, and others, to let Duke come in and spoil this beautiful and 8/20/2015 16:30:49 Hannah Rogers Metcalfe 29609 magical corner of the globe. 8/20/2015 16:33:52 Tammie Alexander 29640 Please do not ruin our beautiful mountains. It is the pride of the Upstate of SC 8/20/2015 16:43:52 Greg McFayden 28756 8/20/2015 17:52:14 James A. Hopkins 29687 8/20/2015 18:00:48 Randall Frye 29360 Do not destroy the view of our beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains!! 8/20/2015 18:02:00 Aimee Hornsby 29615 8/20/2015 18:09:41 Lisa Soenen 29671 8/20/2015 18:12:44 Dan Gilbert 29671 8/20/2015 18:40:04 Pamela Browne 29607 Please stop the damage and destruction the high voltage lines will do to our foothills. This project will devastate our economy, beauty and way of life that we all have chosen to live here to be a part of. People from all walks of life drive through the foothills on I26 and can enjoy the beauty of the vista that our foothills provide. This project would destroy that 8/20/2015 19:16:30 Polly Slater Glover 29356 forever more as well. 8/20/2015 19:24:27 Robert Sutton 29685 Please get us involved with more outreach and awareness involving this. Thank you - 8/20/2015 19:49:26 Wendy Owens 29687 Wendy Owens www.evolver.net Evolver Asheville/ Upstate SC. 8/20/2015 20:30:00 Bill Holt 29607 8/20/2015 20:50:02 Mary M Nettles 29671 These lines will ruin our beautiful community and the property calues and the economy of 8/20/2015 20:55:47 judy warden 29356 our little town. 8/20/2015 22:03:01 Tracey Daniels 28782 Please let me know how I may help. I found Nancy Fitzer's leader to the editor in the Tryon Daily Bulletin helpful with the url's to this petition and all the other contact info. I am passing along to the Save Our Slopes group in Polk County. I will also include info about the SC Public Service Commission is holding a hearing.

8/20/2015 22:25:17 Lisa Krolak 28722 - Thanks! Lisa 8/21/2015 0:11:42 Lu-Ann Garber 29642 Certainly the existing rights of way are under utilized. Absolutely opposed to any of the proposed transmission lines under current consideration by Duke Energy. 8/21/2015 7:36:45 John Paul McGuire 29615 And - we DON'T NEED DUKE ENERGY. It's too big - break it up. 8/21/2015 8:02:01 Jean Lindsey 29616 8/21/2015 8:21:56 Chris Walker 29307 Please support this request to move these proposed lines. 8/21/2015 8:34:59 Rick Calvert 28759 This project is a misguided attempt that only serves the financial interest of the utility and suppliers increasing their bottom line.It makes no sense to maintain centralized control of an inherently decentralized and simpler technology. The energy transformation that is underway should not be impeded by excess baggage of a progressively obsolete and superfluous centralized grid. Quotes from Timothy Schoechle, PhD, National Institute for 8/21/2015 9:18:09 Burnham Uhler 29302 Science,Law, Public Policy. These proposed towers are short sited and will do permanent damage to what makes our area so unique. There has to be a better way. Come on...Let's do something more 8/21/2015 10:33:48 Frank Goldfarb 28732 environmentally correct.. 8/21/2015 10:44:07 Gretchen Klein 29369 I grew up in Spartanburg Cnty am a Greenville Cnty resident and work in the mountains of western nc in Buncombe Cnty. The proposed transmission line routes all go through areas that are the most ecologically sound areas in the south east with vistas, watersheds and plant and animal species that need to be protected from the threat of extinction. These areas are visited by leaders, tourists and other world wide guests who come to explore and see how we are able to keep this area green, viable and free from pollutants (noise, sound and air) while also keeping this reason economically sound. I oppose the transmission line that would cut through these areas, taking natural sound and light barriers in its pathway; changing the view sheds forever and causing ecological damage that will never be able to be restored. Industries such as farming, apple orchards wh/ is driving economic viability in many of these areas will be destroyed. Tourism will be damaged. This area’s economic well-being is inextricably tied to its amazing natural beauty and abundant green spaces, which would be severely damaged by the transmission line wherever it is built. Duke Energy needs to find a better way to transmit this power and to transmit only the needed power. In my opinion the lines need to follow the right of ways of I26 and be buried. We all know as the customers we will pay for it in our rates so why not do it the right way 8/21/2015 11:35:53 Susan Troutman 29607 the first time. Thank you for your consideration! 8/21/2015 12:00:50 Robert Stephenson 29681 I support the request to scrap the Duke Energy transmission line. 8/21/2015 12:08:06 Brian Koss 29680 There is a better way to solve this disaster from happening. You have the $ and the know how so please just use these and let the natural beauty of the upstate mountains and vistas stay all natural!

8/21/2015 12:14:38 Elizabeth Lauber 29609 Thank you 8/21/2015 12:15:16 Rhea Stephenson 29681 I support scraping the Duke Energy transmission line. 8/21/2015 12:36:35 Daniel Smith 29650 Is it possible to bury some of the lines to prevent as widespread destruction? 8/21/2015 12:37:21 Collin Ferrell 29690 We need more soler energy facilities 8/21/2015 13:01:40 Coleen Corbett 29617 8/21/2015 13:54:04 Carole McAfee 29690 This is outrageous. Last year practically everywhere wife and I traveled in New Hampshire and Vermont we saw dozens of solar farms, both large and small, scattered throughout the region. None disturbed the natural beauty of the area, long noted for its scenery, woodlands, etc.. If those Northern mutates can figure out how to do it right, then Duke Energy isn't even trying very 8/21/2015 15:22:40 Michael M. Martin 29601 hard here in the "sunny South"! They've simply got to find a better way. 8/21/2015 15:46:28 Catherine Gillet 28782 I oppose the duke energy plan to run a transmission line through Polk county, NC. 8/21/2015 15:56:52 jean bates 29690 SCRAP the transmission lines..Go solar. Is it possible to find another way to accomplish this project without decreasing the wonderful 8/21/2015 16:03:38 Virginia White 29615 scenic beauty of the Upstate? 8/21/2015 16:17:02 Debbie czodli 32803 8/21/2015 16:20:17 Etta Lea 28205 This thing needs to go underground, or wait until better technology is available. 8/21/2015 16:48:52 Christian Wolters 29322 Please don't destroy our area! There is no benefit to any of the communities that will be scarred by these lines. Property values here will fall and businesses affected. Build a new station near Asheville and the 8/21/2015 17:16:04 Carol mann 28782 areas that need the lines. 8/21/2015 17:32:04 Dianne 29692 8/21/2015 17:33:55 Kim Franzen 29609 8/21/2015 17:35:24 Nicole Cowan 29671 Please don't ruin our beautiful countryside.

Please don't ruin the lives of people who have invested their money in a house that will be worthless with enormous power lines going over them.

8/21/2015 18:13:38 Mary Wolters 29356 Please do the right thing and invest in Solar and Natural Gas. 8/21/2015 18:53:39 shanelle 29651 8/21/2015 18:58:52 Wayne Ross 29696 8/21/2015 18:59:50 Karin Wuestefeld 29681 Please stop this transmission line. We are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful area and 8/21/2015 19:25:08 Vandi Bray 29617 this plan would help distroy this. We all love our beautiful trees. 8/21/2015 19:30:55 Tonya 29626 8/21/2015 20:16:34 James Cleary 29676 8/21/2015 20:33:18 Caleb 29063 8/21/2015 20:39:29 Henry Smoke 28722 Scrap the overhead transmission line! 8/21/2015 21:18:15 wanda manson 28782 The Meyer Center for Special Children go to Skytop apple orchard almost every year for a field trip. It helps us make memories with our students and they are filled with pride and strength when they pick an apple out of a tree for the first, second or third time. We look forward to spending a day at this beautiful place and would be so disappointed if one of our traditions were taken away. Please, reconsider and don't only think about us adults, but the 8/21/2015 21:26:58 natalie petty 29609 children that need it most. Running transmission lines and towers through one of the most scenic yet accessible areas 8/21/2015 22:28:25 Steven Horne 28790 in the country is a very bad idea. Think harder for a better solution. 8/21/2015 22:28:36 Amy DeShong 29681 I am a landowner in Saluda NC and my property will be adversely affected by this power 8/21/2015 23:53:44 Dacre Stoker 28773 line. Why would you choose to ruin such a wonderful place? My family and I go several times a 8/21/2015 23:59:43 tracie 29360 year to Sky Top Orchard. 8/22/2015 3:09:23 Barbara Potter 29673 8/22/2015 5:14:47 Aaron Crawford 28806 8/22/2015 7:32:53 Sandy Brooks Carr 29605 I have also contacted Duke by email to register my opposition. 8/22/2015 8:01:55 Charles Parrish 28722 If Asheville needs power, build the damn things in Asheville. I agree that less invasive means are possible including reducing the size of the gas plant to be built in Skyland, increasing energy efficient programs and more use of solar energy. Certainly energy-efficient appliances are proliferating the market. These mountains are the 8/22/2015 8:45:09 Patricia Gass 28722 oldest in the world and irreplaceable. If Duke can't get power from NC to SC, lets get a SC provider to bring us power. Route the lines along the interstate highway system, instead of across the most beautiful landscapes in the state (or whole country). CP&L dosen't run transmission lines up the beach! Duke power ex CEO Bill Johnson resigned after one day and was paid 44 million in severence! (why isn't someone in jail?) ...and now they can't afford an alternated more expensive route? Maybe we should send Duke power packing back to NC. (the writer is nephew of former 8/22/2015 10:22:21 Robert Cass 29609 Greenville Mayor J.Kenneth Cass) How horrible for Duke to destroy the only thing this area has to support itself. Open land, 8/22/2015 10:23:34 Betsy McCray 28722 mountains and forests! Thank you Upstate Forever for proposing solutions to the reckless destruction of the beauty of our upstate and working to maintain wonderful outdoor recreational spaces for the health and well-being of wildlife, our citizens and tourists.

Duke Energy can show concern and appreciation for the people and resources which have made the corporation a success by stopping the proposed project and incorporating Upstate 8/22/2015 11:46:46 Marlene Douglass 29617 Forever's plausible solutions to the energy problem. 8/22/2015 11:54:12 Jane templeton 32922 I realize the progress we need to make , but putting these lines through residential areas such as ours is not acceptable. Not only for the real estate issues but the health issues of the many elderly residents in our Dana Hill Retirement community. Also we have many farms that grow our food,as well as apple farmers that make Henderson County, North 8/22/2015 12:14:59 Marcia Vestal 28792 Carolina the tourist attraction that it is. This is 2015, you can do better. Put the lines underground, upgrade existing transmission 8/22/2015 12:39:02 Jeffrey Rosenblum 28773 lines. 8/22/2015 13:10:37 Geri Dehne 28773 "Never doubt that small groups of thoughtful, committed citizens CAN change the world!" 8/22/2015 13:14:56 Gary 28792 Use existing easements. We are totally against Duke's plans. The area where we live on Highway 11 (Greenville cnty) has no above-ground lines now. Let them tie into the ones already in existance. 8/22/2015 13:15:16 Robin E. Mercurio 29356-9249 Leave our end of Highway 11 alone! 8/22/2015 13:20:46 Jean Mooney 28791 Is Henderson county included? Please find another solution to the problem. We have enough towers on our beautiful land in the Upstate and into the North Carolina Mountains. I understand the need but there must be other ways to provide the electrical power. 8/22/2015 13:31:16 Elizabeth Baucom 29601 Let the people of these states and visitors enjoy the beauty. 8/22/2015 13:32:46 Clyde Baucom 29601 8/22/2015 13:35:15 Kyle Rogers 29687 I think this project is a bad idea. We are totally opposed to this Duke Power project. We hope that Duke will scrap this project. We will sacrifice the greater good for more consumption if this project moves forward. Frankly, I don't think Duke cares what the people think and will do whatever they want in the end. 8/22/2015 14:06:35 Rex and Wanda Meade 29617 Wanda Meade 8/22/2015 14:30:31 Jane Wilson 29605 8/22/2015 14:39:28 Maria Rueda 28704 8/22/2015 15:00:52 Belle 28773 8/22/2015 15:09:34 Donna Johnston 28792 I'm sure Duke Energy could come up with a better solution than these hideous towers blighting our gorgeous mountains and scenery. Plus the possibility of medical issues, wreck havoc on tourism, surely have a serious impact on real estate prices as they are just starting to recover and on and on. Come on Duke Energy, you can do better than this.

Concerned citizen, 8/22/2015 15:20:36 Suzanne Nett 28792 Sue Nett This is a retirement community. There are many elderly people that live here who have health issues that could be compromised with transmission lines so close. And, they are ugly! No one wants to look at these, not to mention that the value of our homes will go 8/22/2015 15:25:15 Jude Partridge 28792 DOWN - considerably! Thank you. For over 100 years my family has enjoyed our summer retreat in Polk County. Please do not deface this beautiful area filled with trees and native plant material. This local stretch of I-26 is a perfect example of how difficult it is to cut into and transverse this area. Do the 8/22/2015 15:32:46 France H. Patrick 29605 right thing and use the existing pathways and make two smaller natural gas plants. 8/22/2015 16:05:49 Kim Morgan 28756 Keep Polk County beautiful, we don't want or need this in Polk County. 8/22/2015 16:07:28 Kathleen Durava 29690 8/22/2015 16:08:55 Rick Morgan 28756 8/22/2015 17:17:19 Scott Robertson 29650 Scrap the power Line project as is. 8/22/2015 17:21:42 Judy Snyder 29609 I am adamantly opposed to the new Duke transmission lines for environmental and health issues both for us human beings and those who live on this precious land, the creatures, the forests, the rivers...our watersheds! As a plant pathologist I know first hand what power lines and their accompanying maintenance can do to the environment.

8/22/2015 17:24:53 Jo Rytter 28782 Jo Rytter 8/22/2015 17:29:16 Paul Martincic 29681 I petition Duke Energy to scrap the transmission line and to do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the 8/22/2015 17:40:41 Andy Carr 29605 Carolinas. 8/22/2015 18:10:08 Jennifer White 28792 I object to the proposed project as there are number of alternatives that have not been published for consideration by the public. I find the utility intrusion on the subject landscape objectionable. Look what the presence of cell phone towers has done to the views in the 8/22/2015 18:21:02 Geoffrey Duncan 29651 area 8/22/2015 18:54:35 John Pritchard 29681 I am 110% against Duke Energy's plan to scar the pristine beauty we have in the upstate! I am totally against this project and initiated the STOP DUKE ENERGY petition on change.org to let people know about it. Over 4,600 people have signed it since 7/18/15. There is no documented need for this 'modernization' plan. As a redundant system it's only purpose is to provide Duke Energy an opportunity to expand it's footprint at the expense of the Foothills. It will destroy and desecrate the economy and ecology of this area. Without an independent study that proves it's need, it cannot be allowed. If it is proven to be needed, lines need to follow existing rights of way and minimize the economic and ecological impact. Any/all construction must be strictly monitored - Duke Energy has already been proven, via it's coal ash fiasco in WNC, to be unconcerned about the 8/22/2015 18:57:49 Deborah Messmer 29356 environment and humanity. 8/22/2015 19:59:04 Richard Ludwig 28792 *N*ot *I*n *M*y *B*ack *Y*ard!! 8/22/2015 20:27:16 April Rushing 29690 8/22/2015 20:28:25 Nina Hart 28806 It seems to me you don't really care about people at all. As a Duke customer, I ask you to please discontinue your plans to build power lines through the pastoral N.C. and S.C. countryside, compromising peoples's livelihoods and quality of 8/22/2015 21:05:22 Ann Giese 29605 life and defacing land of which we are now so proud. 8/22/2015 21:28:27 Price Story 28759 From the deck of our weekend house on the northern side of the Pinnacle Mountain Road ridge, we have an incredible view of the Blue Ridge Mountains, including Bear Wallow Mountain, the gap that leads to Asheville, Mount Pisgah, and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Dozens of houses on our ridge share a view of the Crab Creek Valley with its many small farms. On the opposite side of the valley are Hebron Mountain, Echo Mountain (Laurel Park), and Jump Off Rock. Many houses line that ridge too, and we all treasure our peaceful views. If Routes 10 A and 10 B are chosen for the Foothills Transmission line, our view will be destroyed, as will the habitat for a number of wild animals and plants. An ecological assessment has determined that our property has potential habitat for several endangered species in the woods and creek bogs. My family has protected this land for 90 years, since my grandfather bought almost 100 acres on Snaggy and Horsepen Mountains in 1925. My husband and I have continued that trust, paying Duke Power to run our electric lines 1/2 mile underground, from the closest existing power pole to our house, when we built 34 years ago. We didn't want lines and poles to mar the historic Pinnacle Mountain Road, built by early settlers to the area. The settlers built the road following the Eastern Continental Divide; their water flowed pure and clean, as does ours today. Proposed Route 10 A would cut a 150 foot wide gash in our woods, recently identified by ecological scientist Laura Belanger as Old Growth Forest. Then it would proceed across the Pinnacle Road-- and the Continental Divide. 140 foot towers and high tension lines would march down the granite mountainside, through more forests, and across the family farms of the Crab Creek Valley. At Crab Creek Road, 10 B would begin, ripping through the property of nationally known Kanuga Episcopal Conference Center, before winding around below Jump Off Rock with its 4-state view, through the mountain gap to Asheville. Our situation is just one example. All but a few of the 44 proposed segments would ruin farmland, pastures for valuable horses, or beautiful mountain scenery. If this project is allowed to proceed, more electric power will, indeed, be provided to the people of the Western Carolinas, BUT AT WHAT COST!!! When the beauty and peace that attracts new residents to our area are 8/22/2015 22:18:40 Marion Mitchell 29615 destroyed, who's going to use all that electricity? We don't want your line across the beautiful mountain terrain. Figure out a another 8/22/2015 22:41:28 Luke Smith 29650 alternative. Duke must stop this and similar actions. Seems they are always looking to advance their 8/22/2015 22:52:51 Corey Lee 29681 interests at the expense of South Carolina. 8/22/2015 23:15:47 Sandra M. Peters 28756 8/22/2015 23:16:29 Ronald R. Peters 28756 8/23/2015 0:49:40 Brian Fulkerson 29651 8/23/2015 2:09:56 Rhonda Horton 29349 8/23/2015 5:46:44 Louis R Montgomery 28756 Put it underground. 8/23/2015 5:59:28 Charles F. West 29609 I think Duke Energy should look for a solution utilizing existing lines. I do not want private citizens to suffer from Duke Power's goal of getting richer and richer. Nobody wants to live near these towers. Nobody wants to look at these towers in our beautiful upstate South Carolina and our beautiful North Carolina mountains. I am against the destruction to the environment caused by the towers. What is this country coming too? 8/23/2015 6:28:27 Zelime Lentz 28704 Please make Duke Power find better, less intrusive ways to serve the people. 8/23/2015 7:15:06 Karen Ernst 29681 8/23/2015 7:19:19 Meredith Ernst 29681 I oppose the transmission line project because it affects so many fragile and protected areas. Once these areas are destroyed, we will never get them back. There are other options to meeting energy needs without these new transmission lines. For example, solar energy could meet many of our energy needs. Please consider other options and save our 8/23/2015 7:38:30 Lisa Benson 29631 beautiful environmental (and economic) resources! 8/23/2015 8:10:39 Monica Leaning 29676 Stop the intrusion into the natural beauty of this area! There are other ways. These towers are the poster children of ugliness. Duke must find another way to accomplish the expansion. If nothing else, use the current rights of way, but better than that, use alternative forms of energy. Eminent domain or not, morally, Duke has no right to plow 8/23/2015 8:27:47 Margaret C. Williams 29356 through our beautiful mountains! 8/23/2015 8:28:17 Charles D Johnston 28792 Why should we be surprised about this? Duke is following their usual arrogant, destructive behavior. Why should upstate suffer so much destruction for possible growth in western 8/23/2015 8:32:17 Carvell Williams 29356 NC?! Duke Energy: I urge you to scrap the transmission line project and to redouble your 8/23/2015 8:51:52 Albert Blackwell 29617 dedication to renewable energy production. 8/23/2015 8:52:54 Marian Bladkwell 29617 8/23/2015 9:07:53 Tracy Wong 29672 8/23/2015 9:08:12 Mr Lynn Eskew 29615 Stop Duke Energy from destroying our beautiful landscape. YES...what are the alternatives? Duke has given us the opportunity to comment on a selection of routes for a transmission line...but, that presupposes that a transmission line is needed at all. What are the real alternatives? Some may be able to solve the energy needs issue without a transmission line...a new independent regional power company?, Solar or 8/23/2015 9:14:21 Edward O'Keefe 29615 other locally generated energy source? SO, what are the REAL alternatives? The Transmission Lines Plan as announced dy Duke Energy will bring widespread and lasting devastation to the economic, aesthetic, and environmental conditions in the SC Upstate and the Western NC mountains. Your own Company Report states that electricity usage has been in a steady decline in this service area. This new line is not meant to serve this area, but rather to serve the corporate bottom line of 8/23/2015 9:20:13 Martha Love 28756 Duke Energy. 8/23/2015 9:23:38 Jerri Griffin 29690 8/23/2015 9:25:33 Michael Brown 29690 8/23/2015 9:26:54 Kathy Meli 28756 My husband Don and I strongly oppose any power lines which affect residents and visitors 8/23/2015 9:38:30 Ellen Wall 29651 views. No one should have to see more of them. Go underground. Duke is very restrictive about the lake shorelines. They should be even more restrictive 8/23/2015 9:54:20 Denice Fisher 29672 about the airways! Please find a way to provide power without the devastating environmental and economic 8/23/2015 9:56:13 Deborah Wolfe 29681 damage that would be caused by Duke's current proposal. To date, I have not read of any efforts by Duke Power to update and utilize their existing utilities. They say they are outdated, however I believe they can be updated. The existing lines can be improved upon. If Duke cared about the environment then they would do 8/23/2015 10:05:09 Suzanne Modder 29681 everything possible to preserve it. I support the position of Upstate Forever in this project and ask that Duke Energy work harder to find a way to bring energy where it is needed without hurting the economy of 8/23/2015 10:07:40 Elizabeth Child 28782 Western NC and the Upstate of SC. I am opposed to the Duke Power line expansion. The areas stunning beauty, majestic mountains and abundant green space should be protected rather than destroyed.

This proposal does not benefit the citizens or surrounding SC area. Why should South 8/23/2015 10:32:00 Miriam Pflug 29301 Carolinas pay the price for electrical services in NC ?? The proposed transmission line, where ever routed, would irrepably scar the beauty and ecology of our mountains. It is a monster of a project, affecting residence and visitors alike, and would harm the area's economy. It should not be built, period. Rob Pflug 8/23/2015 10:49:08 Rob Pflug 29301 Spartanburg, SC I own property in Polk County NC (parcel #P45-185), and wish to point out that the proposed Transmission Line #5 route will disturb native American burial grounds at the southern escarpment of White Oak Mountain, and cause significant water erosion problems affecting a stable environmental drainage area. Why not use alternate natural and level terrain areas ? 8/23/2015 11:01:55 Baxter Ragsdale 29681 Baxter and Brenda Ragsdale Go underground or GO AWAY ! 8/23/2015 11:06:27 Robert Regan 28756 Don't scar nature for greed. Folks: I'll be willing to support once you get real. The answer to the energy equation is "all of the above", each with its own set of environmental, economic and societal issues. The hardest in my mind is societal. As soon as you can convince people to cut 'way back' on their energy consumption you're jousting at windmills (ugly, noisy, bird-killing big ones). 8/23/2015 11:22:43 Adrian Missana 29681 Good luck! 8/23/2015 11:25:08 George Hammett 29384 We need to protect our mountain and foothills environment. Duke Power's plan for a transmission line through large portions of SC's magnificent natural beauty and vast green space, including farm lands, in particular horse farms, would devastate the irreplaceable, bountiful environment for which we as caretakers are responsible. As we are knowledgeable of this, may we all together be wise in decision- 8/23/2015 11:43:46 Nancy Bowler 29609 making. 8/23/2015 11:44:56 Mary Catherine Pflug 29301 8/23/2015 11:49:13 Robert Hanis 29687 The Blue Ridge mountains and surrounding green space are truly a national treasure. Those of us that live in and around Greenville and Asheville have a duty to protect this amazing 8/23/2015 11:50:15 Edward Raines 29642 resource so that future generations can enjoy it, as well. I know more energy is needed as our state and surrounding areas grows,but there has to be a way to do it without destroying the land and the natural beauty of our state.I feel Duke energy doesn't care what they do because it's not there land or state they're going to 8/23/2015 11:58:08 Karen Glenn 29681 destroy. It's like we are being punished for their mistake with the coal pond mess. 8/23/2015 12:01:11 Carlton Woody 29356 As a long-standing member of Upstate Forever, I stand strongly with this local organization that works diligently, conscientiously to protect SC's lands of natural beauty. As Upstate Forever challenges Duke Power's plan for the regional transmission line, their voice speaks 8/23/2015 12:04:11 Joey Bowler 29609 on my behalf. Destroying thousands of acres of virgin forest is the wrong way to connect Campobello to Asheville. Use existing utility corridors and expand them where necessary. This would displace some residents whose property is encroaching on the current corridors. Buy their property for an amount that will allow them to re-settle elsewhere. Or, leverage US technology and bury these utility lines in the existing corridors. If we can put man on the moon, we can bury utility lines. If this costs more money for newer technology it will be worth it for the country. Work smarter, not harder. Wise up Duke Energy. Be a leader, not a 8/23/2015 12:24:28 Gerard Carlin 28790 follower. Gerard A Carlin, Col USAF, Ret. Transmission lines running through any area of the Upstate would be a travesty and spoil 8/23/2015 12:32:01 Ron Gooding 29607 the natural beauty of the mountains. Please invest in our beautiful mountains and foothills and abandon this plan that will forever harm this unique area of our country. Duke Energy has the financial resources to increase 8/23/2015 12:32:21 Susan Douglas 29615 its capacity without this action. I support Upstate Forever's efforts to protect and preserve the beauty of our mountains and foothills. I don't understand why the towers have to be as tall as 140 feet. I guess the idea of burying these lines instead is not feasible. If not, then why isn't it feasible? Keep up the good work Upstate Forever. Regards, 8/23/2015 12:50:04 George Kitchings 29651 George Kitchings 8/23/2015 12:51:30 Andrea Simrell 29681 8/23/2015 12:51:57 Andrew Simrell 29681 SCRAP THE TRANSMISSION LINE! Exhibit leadership and ethics. Go back to the drawing board and come up with a creative, intelligent, out-of-the-box, environmentally responsible alternative.

8/23/2015 12:53:31 Anita Drost Schumaker 29650 Anita Drost Schumaker 8/23/2015 12:53:16 Kathryn Jaskevich perkins 29615 I support upstate forever in alternate means to dukes transmission lines. Community meeting and discussion about the foothills project Tue Aug 25th at Saluda nc fire 8/23/2015 12:56:20 Eric Hamilton 28773 dept 6-8:30pm 8/23/2015 13:08:20 Elva DeSoiza 29651 I'm sure that Duke Power can work with the community to come up auth a solution that 8/23/2015 13:11:26 Jeannette Wilcox 29609 works for everyone. 8/23/2015 13:15:49 Giavonni Gibson 29661 Let's find alternative solutions and not destroy the beauty of the Upstate! 8/23/2015 13:18:57 John P. Waldrop 29609 8/23/2015 13:22:10 John S. Waldrop 29609 8/23/2015 13:22:48 Mitchell Stansbury 29617 Drastically increase solar energy and energy conservation first. Combine state, local, and 8/23/2015 13:27:22 Greg Smith 29607 Duke Power money to do this. Then see what is needed. 8/23/2015 13:31:57 Jim and Emelia Stephenson 29605 we strongly oppose Duke Energy plan for towers I am very worried about the environmental impact this will have on this area. The whole 8/23/2015 13:33:11 Meghan Godwin 29607 reason people move to and visit this area is due to the mountain scenery. I learned first-hand from a client in the Landrum area last week the impact this project could have on them and their neighbors. I find it difficult to believe in the age in which we live that another solution is undiscoverable. I would appreciate a new solution so that the beautiful land, long-time landowners, and small businesses in the area could remain in their present 8/23/2015 13:37:11 Jonathan I Godwin 29607 state. 8/23/2015 13:59:27 Ann Miniscalco 29635 I am absolutely opposed to this initiative. Once again politicians are looking for a cheap and destructive solution. Most of us look for the beauty and serenity of a community. People come from far and wide to see this area. Why are our representatives doing this when it is not the wishes of the people they represent? It is the same old story. When it is not in their back yard they do not care. Who of us could have foreseen when we invested our life savings to live here that this would come to pass. Please review the pictures of this pristine area and superimpose the power towers and see what it would destroy. There seems to be no end to what can happen against the peoples will. I have to wonder when I see what is happening in our country if those that makes these decisions ever stop to think what they are leaving to their children.please reconsider this proposal. There are many alternatives. 8/23/2015 14:05:47 Erika Flock 28756 Why must we destroy what we have been blessed with? Increasing use of alternative power, along with reduction in the average new home size thanks to the down economy, makes this new powerline unnecessary for the future. For the 8/23/2015 14:09:43 Elizabeth Burdett 28773 sake of the planet we're supposed to be learning how to use less power, not more. 8/23/2015 14:14:17 Bob Barber 29605 I'm a property owner in Polk County, NC 8/23/2015 14:24:09 Deborah Thomas 29605 Please continue your good work protecting our beautiful country. 8/23/2015 14:49:29 Kevin Stine 29609 this would be a sad and devastating scene for our landscape to have power lines to obstruct 8/23/2015 14:56:20 Minnie Canale 29607 our beautiful mountains and landscape in the upstate. I am opposed to the proposed 40 mile transmission line through the mountains and foothills of the Carolinas. 8/23/2015 15:11:26 Betty Meyer 29607 Betty Meyer I recently moved to be closer to South Carolina's gorgeous mountains. Don't ruin the 8/23/2015 15:19:45 Rebecca 29617 skyline. 8/23/2015 15:22:02 William Stoker 28773 8/23/2015 15:34:33 Lynne Meluch 28792 I am opposed to the transmission line because it will ruin the pristine environment and 8/23/2015 15:41:30 Nicola Page 29615 beauty of this region. I support scrapping the proposed transmission lines and to determine how to avoid economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Moubtains and Foothills of the 8/23/2015 15:54:24 Brenda Cox 29356 Carolinas. I support scrapping the proposed transmission lines and to determine how to avoid economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Moubtains and Foothills of the 8/23/2015 15:56:04 Jim Sinclair 29356 Carolinas. 8/23/2015 15:57:11 Elise McCasland 29650 8/23/2015 16:13:24 Howard Levy 29u5 8/23/2015 16:15:47 B Gourley 29322 8/23/2015 16:36:45 Woody Hoyle 28782 We understand the growing area's need for power. It would be a shame to destroy such a 8/23/2015 17:56:05 David Goerner 29687 beautiful area to meet those needs. Further studies are still required to discuss alternatives. I relocated from Memphis TN to Landrum SC to remove myself from the eyesores of massive power lines. Please allow the Foothills area to remain beautiful. Other options 8/23/2015 18:01:46 Robert Bolton 29356 could include using existing routes or burying lines as is the practice in Europe. Duke, please scrap the transmission line and to do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the 8/23/2015 18:12:38 Steven J Schumaker 29650 Carolinas!!! 8/23/2015 18:44:49 Pamela Couvillion 29601 8/23/2015 19:18:50 Virginia Gwynn 29609 8/23/2015 19:31:03 Pamela Jo Adams 28806 Please use ways to supply power to customers other than unsightly overhead lines such as underground lines, that unlike overhead lines, will not be damaged as a result of bad 8/23/2015 19:32:59 Barbara Trouten 29611 weather. 8/23/2015 19:37:18 Day King 29607 Overhead power lines are dangerous in bad weather, are subject to their poles being slammed into in car wrecks, and serve no purpose that can't be attained through underground wires. Please also find a way to do this that won't negatively affect the environment or the economic and personal welfare of local land-owners, as would be the 8/23/2015 19:48:47 Mandy Trouten 29611 case with an orchard that has been mentioned. Thank you. 8/23/2015 20:03:00 Alfred Fetz 29680 7269 Duke should use existing corridor. i am in support of upstate forevers request to scrap the transmission line to avoid conomic & 8/23/2015 20:40:20 V. Cribb 29654 environmental harm to the blue ridge mts & foothills of the carolinas! 8/23/2015 20:55:59 Pamela Putman 29605 Scrap it! Please scrap the transmission line. I really believe that if you used that amount of money to put solar on a large number of roofs, you would have no need for a transmission line as the 8/23/2015 20:58:42 Bettina George 29664 power source would be closer to the end user. Do away with the line if you can't make it safe, would burying it be an option. I thought Blue 8/23/2015 21:12:42 Cynthia Cooke 29316 Ridge was a National Park and that they wouldn't be able to do this. Am I wrong?? 8/23/2015 21:26:25 Sara Schultz 29650 8/23/2015 21:49:46 Anne Fuller 29609 Find a better alternative. You don't need to rape the beautiful natural landscape with transmission towers and lines. What could possibly be uglier? Have you no morals? No 8/23/2015 22:03:14 Linda Keenum Tapp 29650 conscience? What else can I do and to whom should I write to stop Duke Energy from ruining the real estate values, the tourist income, the environment, and the BEAUTY of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of both North and South Carolina??! (We have cut our own electric usage to the level of Duke's "Energy Efficient Home", and we are trying to find ways to reduce our usage more.) Can Upstate Forever mount a campaign to cut electric usage as Greenville grows? How can we get Duke to collaborate with Upstate Forever and The Nature Conservancy to find a solution (SOLAR?) that will not harm one of the most unique and irreplaceable escarpment areas in the world? Is it possible that this petition can persuade Duke's leaders to show some sensitivity and stop cutting corners as they have done so often in the past (i.e. contaminating waterways, ignoring regulation deadlines, chopping trees in hideous shapes, failing to maintain their newly acquired facilities of Synergy, etc,)? With one week to go, can we get more people on board via Facebook, TV, and newspapers by August 31? Greenvillians will respond to KEEP GREENVILLE 8/23/2015 22:12:17 Nancy G. Allen 29617 GREEN!!! I am opposed to Duke destroying the Upstate of South Carolina and the natural beauty of the Carolinas by building transmission towers. If more power is needed for residencies in peak periods then Duke needs to either put lines under ground,add more solar panels or 8/23/2015 22:17:15 Jeanne Moore 29356 require users of their power to use energy effecient items. 8/23/2015 22:27:07 Kate Fisher 28773 Our mountains and foothills are lovely.Please find another way that does NOT involve 8/23/2015 22:46:44 Sarah Johnson 29650 compromising the beauty of nature that rightfully belongs to everyone. 8/23/2015 22:53:21 Glen Parker 28792 8/24/2015 6:10:59 Mary-Fran Crosswell 29601 8/24/2015 6:51:59 Martha Cole 29687 I remember hearing about the concept of "alternative, clean energy" back in the 60's! For far too long, energy policy in our country has been dictated by powerful oil and gas entities! Duke Energy is behind the curve on the concept of clean energy! Surely, for years now, even Duke Energy, through R&D, has had the ability to consider alternative energy delivery needs, rather than large, ugly, cumbersome, environmentally disruptive power lines and towers? Most people are sick and tired of those "for-profit at all cost" entities, at the expense 8/24/2015 7:13:52 Patrick Westmoreland 29615 of our environment and the people in general! 8/24/2015 7:37:39 Donna Campbell 28722 8/24/2015 7:37:53 Ashley Parrish 28722 At some point Duke will run out of land to destroy...is that their goal? I would like to see this project stopped until a better plan can be made. It seems to me that we should be working more on alternative sources for energy instead of doing everything 8/24/2015 8:03:41 Nancie Dixon 29605 the same old way. 8/24/2015 8:14:41 Terri and Bill Graham 29696 There must be a better way to do this. 8/24/2015 8:15:42 MYRA T ADAMS 28411 8/24/2015 8:21:42 Bill Beattie 28784 Use their existing right of way. 8/24/2015 8:46:57 Sandra Owen 28768 The public is fed up with sacrificing for greed and profits! Sacrificing the natural beauty of Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina is not a 8/24/2015 8:52:39 Rick Boozer 29651 price we should have to pay for progress. Find another way. 8/24/2015 8:53:21 Debbie Farr 29621 Our beautiful mountains need to stay that way! Please do no harm! 8/24/2015 9:00:04 Kim Hein 29609 8/24/2015 9:08:32 Marybeth Trunk 29356 Duke should use existing right-of-way if this project is allowed to proceed. 8/24/2015 9:30:15 Patricia Konstant 29617 Please do not put up these power lines. Please think of alternate plans 8/24/2015 9:33:01 Eliza Gray 29601 Listen to us, Duke!

Stop this proposed desecration or our foothills 8/24/2015 9:41:23 Eugene Dickson 29601 and mountains. The Duke Energy project of running transmission lines thru the scenic mountains of NC and 8/24/2015 9:42:39 Betty Ballard 28790 SC is a destruction of our beauty and well being economically. I strongly oppose this project 8/24/2015 9:46:11 Ben Romine 28782 8/24/2015 9:47:35 Nancy Weinhagen 28773 You don't need to do this. Do new right away a. Use old rights always or build new sub station plant in NC!!! To supply 8/24/2015 9:51:10 Jerry Bowles 29690 NC 8/24/2015 9:59:28 KELLY DIXON 29605 My husband and I, having lived in the Upstate and enjoyed the outstanding natural beauty of this area for 22 yrs., strongly urge Duke Energy to investigate and institute an alternate plan for this latest project. We do not live in the "affected area", but rather, value that area for its unique rural character and precious, irreplaceable natural beauty. PLEASE protect & 8/24/2015 10:04:12 Jennifer Bausman 29672 conserve that area for all future generations. 8/24/2015 10:14:44 Debra Farley 29601 Try and come up with a better resolution. Please How can one company destroy the natural beauty of so many citizens, especially since 8/24/2015 10:17:15 Anne Hammond 29650 there are better alternatives available. We moved to this area of SC for the natural beauty. Your plan would upend the environment, 8/24/2015 10:17:22 Marilu Karpinsky 29690 economy and vistas of the Upstate. 8/24/2015 10:18:41 Dave Hammond 29650 This proposal is certainly not progress....it's criminal! Grew up in the upstate and love hiking in our beautiful areas. Please don't destroy the 8/24/2015 10:20:21 Tim Hammond 29403 vistas! 8/24/2015 10:38:48 Anne M Holland 29605 The construction of this transmission line will have an extremely negative impact on tourism, property values, health, fire risk, and tax revenues. The lines will be developed for Asheville with the negative impact outside of that area. Any transmission line should look to use 8/24/2015 10:52:42 Mary Crise 29690 existing right of ways. 8/24/2015 10:57:18 W. Kevin Ellison 29687 As president of Foothills Equestrian Trails Assoc., Inc. (FETA), I represent an approximately 450 member group dedicated to the preservation and care of our historic horse trails, one of the very few areas like this in the U.S. remaining. These lines will devastate our trails, horse farms and horse related industries, a very major part of our local economy. We stand united 8/24/2015 10:58:20 Judith G. Kerns 28782 against it, and implore Duke to find another way. 8/24/2015 11:22:37 Steve Richards 29681 Please build underground lines so as to not destroy the environment I Burnie/Leotta Gaston support to scrap the transmission line and to this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountain and Foothills of 8/24/2015 11:23:21 Burnie Gaston Jr 29690 the Carolinas. 8/24/2015 11:32:36 Mary Nicoll 29609 Please reconsider this project in order to reduce the amount of damage to the environment.

8/24/2015 11:39:47 Karen LaFleur Stewart 29601 Thank you. My wife and I travel from our home in Greenville to various parts of NC almost every weekend. Sometimes we are going hiking, sometimes road biking, and some times mountain biking. One of the reasons we go is for the beautiful views of the mountains. This is one of the reasons we choose to live in the Upstate. As it is, we have too many transmission lines and billboards, we do not need more. I realize it is more expensive to buy transmission lines but I truly think that the beauty of our region deserves the extra effort and cost. 8/24/2015 11:44:19 Paul Mills 29617 Paul Mills Thank you, Upstate Forever, for spearheading this fight against transmission lines in our beautiful and sacred Blue Ridge Mountains. As Brad has so succinctly said, there are 8/24/2015 11:50:29 Jodi Price Hajosy 29609 several other options. Destroying this wonderful ecosystem is not necessary. 8/24/2015 11:58:16 Howard Childs 29642 8/24/2015 12:11:26 Larry Finney 29681 Let's take some time and make sure we do this right for the long term. 8/24/2015 12:16:01 Yates Johnson 29307 8/24/2015 12:20:37 Susan Sabin 29601 I don't want our scenic highway and beautiful landscape to be marred by power lines. 8/24/2015 12:32:46 Adam Berry 29609 8/24/2015 12:38:53 Sandy Kester 29601 There are better more sustainable ways to provide power. Tell us other ways we can help 8/24/2015 12:43:45 Andrea Berry 29609 stop Duke. Dear upstateforever, How fortunate that there are better and suitable ways to make the proper connections for Duke's transmission line; I'll spread the word to friends who may not have read the Greenville Journal article and Thank You for being a South Carolinian who really cares about our beautiful state, 8/24/2015 12:47:40 Gloria Jones 29609 Gloria Jones The hasty implementation of this plan is a sign to me that there must be a better, safer, less 8/24/2015 12:52:27 John Webb 29687 impactful way to get this done. John Webb 8/24/2015 12:54:56 Judy Z Verhoeven 29607 I am in support of the effort to petition Duke Energy to scrap the transmission line through 8/24/2015 12:55:50 Janet Ensor 29609 the Blue Ridge mountains and Carolina Foothills. 8/24/2015 13:02:11 Gilbert Allen 29690 8/24/2015 13:08:04 Patrick Clifford 28782 8/24/2015 13:20:23 Sandra Lamb 29615 8/24/2015 13:22:17 Christy Wines 29615 Rethink the strategy. Find a better way. Scrape the transmission line. 8/24/2015 13:22:42 Elizabeth Halpin 29631 Thank you. 8/24/2015 13:24:34 Wim Woody 28782 Bury the lines thousands of people will be homeless, new adults, habitat housing, elderly housing, senior citizens housing, farm land that now become land we cant farm on. if you think the FAIR MARKET PRICE will help people to find a new place to live.. you are kidding yourself. Don't make people that worked all their life that have finally settled down to a permenant place to live and now they have to move and leave behind the family homestead, the roof over their heads, habitat families went from being homeless with children to their first home with beds for their children to sleep on and now they will be homeless again. I personally just remodeled my kitchen and now to leave it. really??? think about your own family and 8/24/2015 13:27:12 Laurie Morin 28726 all that you would be loosing. We will loose everything we have.. We need to conserve the majestic mountains that make our area what it is. We need to 8/24/2015 13:36:46 Joann Fredmonski 29681 save it for us and future generations. 8/24/2015 13:40:36 Paula Beleckis 29672 8/24/2015 13:43:10 Dawn Pressel 46544 8/24/2015 13:53:12 Surendra Jain 29687 I strongly oppose these power lines through our natural forests. 8/24/2015 13:53:34 Surendra Jain 29687 I strongly oppose these power lines through our natural forests. The proposed lines will fundamentally change the quality of life in the Upstate and foothills of Western North Carolina. It is incumbent on the elected officials of these areas to represent their people who pay their salaries and offer their votes. Let's be certain these individuals act to support the will of the majority rather than the well endowed interests of the 8/24/2015 13:56:29 Dan Norris 28773 likes of Duke Energy. These routes will devastate the economy in upper Spartanburg County and Polk County by destroying the pristine wilderness and countryside of the first peaks. Duke needs to find 8/24/2015 14:04:04 Haidee Stith 29072 another way to connect its power plants. The mountains are a large part of why we live here; we request Duke Energy to avoid a 8/24/2015 14:06:58 Catherine K. McElhany 29605 project that brings environmental harm to our environment 8/24/2015 14:33:53 BJ Koonce 29615 8/24/2015 14:40:22 Joe Erwin 29687 My husband and I support this petition...You are doing all of us a HUGE disservice if you move forward with these plans...We would all be better off to slow down development and 8/24/2015 14:40:34 Mary Eccles 29690 thus the need for MORE & MORE power...Please reconsider. Thank you, M. Eccles 8/24/2015 14:45:36 Linda Whitt 29615 As a former resident of Glassy Mountain I know what a travesty it would be to carve up the scenic Blue Ridge escarpment much of which has been so painstakingly preserved, and which is so critical to the quality of life in the Carolinas and such a draw to the area economically.

Routes are already carved out in this area to carry ugly transmission towers and lines. Those routes should be used/converted to handle these future needs, or some more direct route developed from Oconee Nuclear Station to Asheville without destroying this valuable SC environment and 8/24/2015 14:54:32 Sandra Franklin 29650 ecosystem. 8/24/2015 14:54:44 Hal Harris 29630 8/24/2015 14:56:52 Elizabeth L. Vech 68015 Duke Energy must work with the community to cut back the footprint of this project. Upstate 8/24/2015 15:04:47 Lucinda Rogers 29690 Forever's suggestions are an excellent way to start. 8/24/2015 15:07:35 David Riddle 28773 Why not go underground and use the existing right-fo-way along I-26? 8/24/2015 15:13:32 Jonathan Settle 29651 Don't pollute some of the most beautiful country on the east coast with your transmission 8/24/2015 15:14:03 Daniel Kestner 29611 line...there has to be a better way! If providing the necessary power can be done differently than Duke proposes it needs to 8/24/2015 15:16:50 Sally Hansen 29615 happen. Our vistas are too beautiful to spoil with high power lines. the line is not needed. Duke already has a 230 kv line from sc to pisgah forest, nc and beyond. The update of the Skyland plant will produce more than enough to supply the area. The line will destroy the beauty of the area and severly hurt the economy which depends 8/24/2015 15:34:35 Glenda Bentley 28793 upon tourism, retirees and agriculture. 8/24/2015 15:44:45 John Bennett 29631 Please consider more environmentally sensitive solutions to your proposed project. Giant 8/24/2015 16:03:58 Blake Praytor 29601 robotic like figures marching through the mountains is not a visually acceptible solution. 8/24/2015 16:08:49 Vivian Luke 30501 8/24/2015 16:10:26 Bobbi Wheless 29615 It would be a dreadful mistake. 8/24/2015 16:13:23 Cindy Stephens 29680 8/24/2015 16:13:26 Jean E. Hays 29617 please find another way that doesn't mar the beauty of the mountains! 8/24/2015 16:14:48 Josh Simons 29687 8/24/2015 16:32:15 Linda Young 32817 We vacation up there - Please Duke Energy - do not do this! Please scrap the transmission line project and prevent harm to the pristine beauty of the 8/24/2015 16:37:04 Karen Hall 76086 Blue Ridge and Foothills of the Carolinas! 8/24/2015 16:37:49 Denton Burnette 29607 8/24/2015 16:37:57 Thomas L. Fallaw 29609-1203 8/24/2015 16:38:44 Jason Smith 28721 8/24/2015 16:39:49 Carroll Rush 28722 8/24/2015 16:41:26 Gretchen Erwin 29687 8/24/2015 16:41:28 Lynn M. Bailey 29601 8/24/2015 16:42:05 Hannah Dillard 29601 8/24/2015 16:43:18 Raymond Whitehead 29356 One route would go thru our back yard!!!! 8/24/2015 16:44:13 Frank Powell 29672 it's time to do more with demand side management and with renewable energy

8/24/2015 16:44:58 Mark Byington 28782 I support Upstate Forever's petition of Duke Energy to scrap the proposed transmission line! Duke should abandon this plan to damage the beautiful mountains and foothills of Upstate South Caroilna and Western North Carolina. Either do your nasty work underground or abandon fossil fuel production entirely by changing this plan to one of Sustainable energy production from solar and wind technologies. Fracking to produce natural gas destroys 8/24/2015 16:46:04 Linda Byington 28782 water quality and the health of those relying on it. 8/24/2015 16:46:18 Jane Powell 29672 please help me get solar panels on my home 8/24/2015 16:47:09 Jim Fowler 29605 By all means, do not let this eyesore be constructed. 8/24/2015 16:47:28 Diann Coffey 29689 Do not want any of the ugly towers to mess up the beautiful landscape. 8/24/2015 16:53:18 Wade Worthen 29617 Please be a good partner for the protection of intact natural areas. They are rare. 8/24/2015 16:53:39 Jon Gore 29607 8/24/2015 16:54:43 Megan O'Neill 29681 8/24/2015 16:55:05 Simons Welter 29307 8/24/2015 16:55:44 Edward Jody 29369 8/24/2015 16:56:11 Mark Szymanski 29325 8/24/2015 16:56:56 Steve Grose 29651 Duke Energy must find a "way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas." Please do what is right for your customers 8/24/2015 16:57:13 Cathy Hammond 29617 and not your financial wants and bottomline. Duke Energy - please find alternative methods of transmitting the electricity between Campobello and Asheville that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge 8/24/2015 16:58:18 Patti McAbee 29615 Mountains and Foothills. 8/24/2015 17:04:01 Dr. Doug Rayner 29302 I agree with the arguments against the project made by Upstate Forever. 8/24/2015 17:07:30 Jeanne Marett 29671 it is important that Duke Power find another route. 8/24/2015 17:08:30 Marcia W. Barker 29607 I believe that Duke Power cares nothing for the environment or the people whose land they trash without permission or even notification. Several years ago, when I was not in residence, they cut a swath through my property to clear access to power lines. I can certainly understand the need to do that. What I will never get over is the HUGE mess and fire hazzard that was left in their wake. I also believe that it was not necessary for them to destroy so much beautiful property in the process. And, they should be required to clean up after themselves! If they destroy so much private property, I can't imagine what they would do to the rest of the Upstate. They must find a less destructive unsightly way to service their 8/24/2015 17:08:36 Frances Sak 29635 customers. 8/24/2015 17:09:54 James Locke 29302 In addition to increasing energy effeciency programmes to reduce the need for the very large gas-powered generator, and the increased use of renewables leading to more distributed generation and smaller generators, there are many other options available. Underrground HVDC following interstate highways ,eg. could allow future substations to be 8/24/2015 17:10:05 Randall Bowie 30144 built for charging future electric vehicles in motion. . As Conservation Coordinator for the Blue Ridge Council of the BSA which manages Camp Old Indian through which Route 4 of the proposed Transmission would pass, I am opposed to this Proposal, While I do not doubt the growing need for electric power due to increasing population, I DO NOT consider these proposals as WISE USE of our Natural Resources. As stewards of our natural resources, we MUST set an example for our scouts. This disregard of the scenic beauty of the area needs to be stopped. Duke must consider using existing 8/24/2015 17:13:15 Victor Shelburne 29672 rights of way and other options as have been noted by others. 8/24/2015 17:18:53 Mary Lou jones 29609 Please let us know what else we can do to stop this invasion of the land we love. 8/24/2015 17:19:13 Karen Mascaro 29609 You guys have got to find an acceptable alternative to tearing lines through the land, or do 8/24/2015 17:19:20 Joe Cockrell 29412 no lines at all. You have no right and no authority to destroy the creation. 8/24/2015 17:19:27 Charles Sowell 29635 8/24/2015 17:19:30 Mary Lou jones 29609 Please let us know what else we can do to stop this invasion of the land we love. 8/24/2015 17:24:06 Laura Lipscomb 29690 8/24/2015 17:24:38 Camille Buck 29605 8/24/2015 17:25:15 Will Wagner 30506 As alternative energy sources become more feasible, why do we need to build bigger power generating plants? The need for their capacity will be reduced, thus making their huge 8/24/2015 17:28:37 Sandra Hamann 29605 building expense a waste of resources! 8/24/2015 17:45:10 Terri Stafford 29605 8/24/2015 17:50:41 John Reed Greer sc You need to place the tower on land that is already in use, not in our forest. Please scrap the transmission line you have planned, and do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the 8/24/2015 17:52:27 Mary Hill 27944 Carolinas. 8/24/2015 18:06:39 Matt Putnam 29605 Surely there must be more environmentally and economically sound proposals for providing the necessary additional power where it is needed than using 20th century technology to essentially destroy the important lands along the proposed routes. Duke Energy needs to 8/24/2015 18:07:18 James Gossett 29605 dig deeper and be more creative. 8/24/2015 18:20:30 T Carter Thomasson 29676 8/24/2015 18:29:25 JoAnne Day 29206 There are other options available. I urge Duke Energy to consider them. 8/24/2015 18:42:54 Jennie Johnson 29609 Please don't ruin our area's natural beauty by new power lines. Surely there is a better way. 8/24/2015 18:52:12 David B Willoughby 28712 8/24/2015 19:02:45 Mary Gorman 29605 8/24/2015 19:06:31 Michael Manley, MD 29625 No!! Don't need to further pollute/visually despoil our mountains/piedment. 8/24/2015 19:20:21 David Wilder 29687 This project's long term impact is not beneficial for many reasons. 8/24/2015 19:27:21 Peter Maurides 29605 8/24/2015 19:50:48 Christine Todd 29685 8/24/2015 19:58:49 Ann Shahid 29472 Please maintain the reason we came to the beautiful mountains in the first place. The mountains are gorgeous, please keep them that way. If you have to expand the transmission lines, please follow the path that you already have lines on. Don't create new 8/24/2015 19:59:35 Karen Kennedy 28731 ones. Thank you in advance! Karen Kennedy 8/24/2015 20:00:48 Jane Kramer 29673 8/24/2015 20:11:06 Brooks Wade 29676 8/24/2015 20:15:08 Marilyn Gower 29601 While European countries are giving up nuclear power plants and using the sun and wind, you are totally unaware of what you want to do to our environment. Isn't your pollution problem enough? It's way past time to think green.

8/24/2015 20:21:06 Juliana Weeks 29615 Juliana Weeks 8/24/2015 20:24:54 C R Maxwell 29615 Do not do this please Duke Power Any alternative to installing the high power lines across our most beautiful Blue Ridge foothills must be considered. To consider this project is an obscene impact on the 8/24/2015 20:27:04 Gary Davis 29680 environment that Duke Power claims to support. 8/24/2015 20:27:08 Katherine Mabry 29302 I sure that Duke Power has many alternatives instead of destroying the beautiful views of 8/24/2015 20:31:06 Shelley Davis 29680 our Blue Ridge mountains. 8/24/2015 20:47:22 Roger D. Bourdon 29687 Duke needs to be stopped and held accountable for their bully tactics. So many people are coming to our area to enjoy the natural beauty. Please don't despoil 8/24/2015 20:48:36 Joyce McCarrell 29609 these mountains! 8/24/2015 20:50:27 Susan Rothemich 29302 8/24/2015 20:53:12 Paul McKee 29307 8/24/2015 20:54:15 Lynn N Roosevelt 29615-1231 To Duke Energy--don't do this!!! Good sense and wisdom argues against placing major transmission lines across our botanically and aesthetically rich Blue Ridge escarpment. Duke Power should act 8/24/2015 20:57:23 Tom Tiller 29615 accordingly; posterity will look favorably on turning down the current proposals. 8/24/2015 20:57:58 Trey Fouche 29607 Thanks for leading the fight on this important issue. 8/24/2015 21:07:01 Catherine Gramling 29322 8/24/2015 21:08:24 Paula B. Carson 29621-3312 8/24/2015 21:11:20 Nate Wooten 29631 Grow smarter! 8/24/2015 21:13:41 Suzanne Poole 29681 I may be stating the obvious but just in case let me describe why I think Duke is proposing this project.

Their proposal to retire the coal plant in Asheville is a long time coming and will happen regardless. They are trying to use this as leverage but in reality they have no leverage here. This coal plant will have to retire soon because the operational and maintenance costs are high, the local Asheville residents are pushing for it and the recent coal ash issues they are dealing with in NC.

The reason I think they are trying to connect the Campobello Substation to the Asheville Plant is that they need a large backup source of power incase the Oconee Nuclear Station trips. They also need more power in Asheville so they are trying to kill two birds with one stone.

Since in reality they most likely need to build two new facilities (one in SC and one in NC); they are trying to do the cheaper option, as most public companies would do. Also they must have additional space at the Arden plant so this makes it even a better deal in their eyes.

The problem is here they are disregarding our public lands and that’s where Upstate Forever and other similar organizations are stepping in. Thank you so much for what you do for the Upstate. Your organization is outstanding and I fully endorse this petition against the proposed transmission lines. Duke needs to find a way to solve this problem without taking away something they could never repay.

Regards,

Jason Long [email protected] 8/24/2015 21:35:41 Jason Long 29607 864-320-7343 8/24/2015 21:51:44 John Thomas 29615 8/24/2015 22:07:50 Dan Gerst 29681 8/24/2015 22:31:47 Ambie Tolly 28773 This will destroy valued family property if it is built here in Saluda. 8/24/2015 22:36:32 Doug Harper 29605 Scrap the line! Not sure I agree with the objection. I am a TU member and love the outdoors and the mountains. But, we can't stop providing power to meet the needs of business and residences. Growth is not bad by definition. No tower will be placed in a trout stream. The Bad Creek site was well done and they open the streams and lake to outdoor activities. I 8/24/2015 23:05:21 Gary W. Gunderson 29620 support their plan, unless someone can demonstrate a real negative impact. Please do not lay waste to nature's great beauty. We own four lots at the Cliffs at Glassy. You are destroying nature as well as people's fortunes. Upgrade and use the existing 8/24/2015 23:06:08 Deborah Peabody 29605 easement. Do not lay waste to the land. 8/24/2015 23:11:50 Ruth Bartman 28773 8/25/2015 0:09:53 David Yelton 29681 This series of transmissions lines through our beautiful SC mountains is simply unacceptable. I am not a radical and understand that people need electricity. However, to me, the concept of disfiguring these precious natural treasures in the name of "progress" is 8/25/2015 1:15:13 Clay Bolt 59715 a radical notion. Do the right thing by our region and please find another solution. Thank you, Upstate forever, for doing what you are doing. I also want to preserve the incredible beauty of our area and avoid unsightly power lines all over our mountains. The Upstate and Western North Carolina are the most beautiful places in the entire world, and 8/25/2015 1:41:03 S. M. Balding 29609 I've always believed that, and want to always believe that. 8/25/2015 5:07:49 Margaret Heatherly 29687 8/25/2015 5:52:38 Samantha Settle 29651 Duke has grown from the conscientious local energy company to a behemoth bully that destroys whatever it wishes in the pursuit of power and money. They care nothing for the land, nature's beauty, property values, or even people's lives. If they did, they would be burying all lines and investing in renewable energy.

8/25/2015 5:54:46 Glenn Dulken 28756 This proposal must be stopped dead in its tracks. As president of the 500+ member Greenville Natural History Association I am encouraging all of our Board and members to 8/25/2015 5:58:30 Gerald Miller 29681 support efforts to stop this land grab by Duke Power. Duke Energy, If you care at all about the people you serve, the land we inhabit, or our children's future, please stop building things that destroy our planet. Coal and Natural Gas are destroying the very water we drink and the air we breathe. Invest in solar and wind 8/25/2015 6:00:40 Lynne Dulken 28756 power and stop lying to us. 8/25/2015 6:21:51 Dennis and Jane Chastain 29671 8/25/2015 7:06:14 Andrew Irwin 29605 8/25/2015 7:08:43 Katie Jones 29609 8/25/2015 7:47:21 David Bennett 29672 8/25/2015 7:55:32 Gail S. McDiarmid 29635 8/25/2015 7:59:37 Ruth W Algary 29607 8/25/2015 8:17:12 Rick 29063 SCRAP THE TRANSMISSION LINE 8/25/2015 8:26:49 Linda Lunsford 29644 Duke Power routinely slaughters beautiful vistas and the environment with wires and transmission lines. They have already cluttered communities with both, and now apparently 8/25/2015 8:29:51 Linda Maneen 29615 feel free to ravish the mountains as well. Stop them from continuing! 8/25/2015 8:31:21 Michael Dulken 28806 8/25/2015 8:33:08 Alyce Mae Alexander 28723 8/25/2015 8:35:55 Bruce Chambers 29681 Duke Power should be limited to existing power line right-of-way as they upgrade the power system. It may be acceptable to run new power through developed areas if there is no engineering alternative, but Duke Power should be kept from ever running new power 8/25/2015 8:44:15 Dave Wright 29609 through undeveloped areas. The most important points to make would be those that realistically and legitimately reduce the peak electric load that the proposed plant serves. We have met the enemy, he is us. So what are you challenging us to do to help create solutions?

How about encouraging summer a/c settings at 78, heat at 68? Or is that too much like Jimmy Carter wearing a sweater? Or too unacceptable to southern ladies and gentlemen?

What does this do to your position on electric transit and plug-in electric cars? They'll become a huge contributor to electric demand, peak and off-peak. How about fuel cells? It takes about $6 worth of electricity to run an electrolyzer to produce a gallon of gas worth of hydrogen "energy" from H2O.

I oppose the proposed line. It is stark, industrial, ugly and offensive, but that only impacts our human sense of "natural beauty." The line will open up the forest canopy, improving wildlife habitat and plant diversity. The net long term impact on habitat is likely positive. I'm much more concerned about that than I am about the view from some rich guy's porch at his second home.

A lot more environmental harm is going to be done in the next 3 months by residential and commercial development creeping farther out into the region than this line ever will do. But if you want to stop it, propose real options. I really don't see any here.

How about two smaller natural gas power plants, with one in Campobello instead of a substation? I wonder how we'd react to that? We're running out of "someone else's 8/25/2015 8:48:11 John Gardner 29607 backyard" in which to build the things we WANT and USE but don't LIKE to see. 8/25/2015 8:54:22 Ellis Pearce 29601 8/25/2015 8:58:28 T. Walter Brashier 29690 Stop Duke before it ruins our rural way of life. Duke wants more energy to sell to 8/25/2015 9:02:01 Myrna Johns 28722 neighboring states. It boils down to more money for Duke, ruined lives for the people. 8/25/2015 9:17:07 Christine M. Brashier 29690 8/25/2015 9:18:19 JOHN COLLIER 29644 8/25/2015 9:25:53 Clyde A. Glenn 29601 We need to support the growth of community in a respectful, responsible way. Please do 8/25/2015 9:34:17 Wendy Green 29615 not destroy the beauty of our mountains. I oppose the plan for the Duke Energy transmission line through the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas and ask that Duke Energy propose to do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of 8/25/2015 9:47:17 Krystal Pettigrew 29687 the Carolinas. Please don't scar and ruin our beautiful home. 8/25/2015 9:54:11 Glenn Hilliard 29605 8/25/2015 9:55:02 Heather Hilliard 29605 Duke--Please do not destroy the beauty of Upstate SC with a new power line. Can't you run 8/25/2015 9:55:15 William Lancaster 29615 the lines along your existing right-of-way? 8/25/2015 10:08:49 Toni Masters 29615 8/25/2015 10:09:42 Kathy Vass 29615 8/25/2015 10:15:42 Laura Caligan-Gilliam 26909 8/25/2015 10:17:09 Cheryl Brown 29611 Go Solar Instead! 8/25/2015 10:25:52 Blacow 28756 8/25/2015 10:50:57 Elizabeth Cone 29607 The more I learn about this project, the more it seems that the desired results that Duke Energy seeks to achieve could be accomplished by reducing the size of the proposed facility in Asheville. The environmental impact of the proposed transmission line would be an environmental catastrophe to the most beautiful part of our state (and country). It is difficult 8/25/2015 11:08:02 Mark Smith 29687 to comprehend why this is even being considered. 8/25/2015 11:08:44 Maurie Lawrence 29601 We live in Columbus, NC and the proposed lines will not be on my property but I'll be able to see them. It is and will be affecting our property values and very concerned with health issues for those who are going to have to live under these. Don't understand why a utility company has so much power and assures us and we are supposed to take their word for 8/25/2015 11:13:05 DLee Worden 28722 everything and let them have free rein! 8/25/2015 11:17:21 Kathryn Stuart 29209 8/25/2015 11:27:46 Marsha Ducker 29605 Duke Energy needs to withdraw its proposal. 8/25/2015 11:30:15 Jennifer Labbe 28722 I oppose this project as unnecessary for this area. 8/25/2015 11:31:59 Nela Loflin 29782 8/25/2015 11:43:06 Ron Logan 29605 Duke needs to find another way which will not destroy the beauty of SC 8/25/2015 11:52:55 Elaine Rizzo 28722 Most definitely oppose the ruination of our beautiful county, as well as the health issues to the residents and our animal population. Many of us moved here for a purpose, the 8/25/2015 11:58:26 Diana seagle 28722 unspoiled and beauty of this area and to see it taken away is shameful! 8/25/2015 12:00:44 Nancy Joyce 28803 We do of want this project which is unnecessary, wasteful,and could do much harm to people, wildlife, flora, tourism, agriculture,commerce, property values and future 8/25/2015 12:01:02 John Bell 28782 development. 8/25/2015 12:07:03 Glenn Shaw 6830 I oppose DukeEnergy's current plan for transmission lives through the Mountains and 8/25/2015 12:14:07 Lee Farrar 29607 Foothills of the Carolinas. Lee Farrar My son just had the most amazing experience at GRP camp this summer and I want him to continue having these experiences for a long time. This area provides an excellent environment for the programming offered there year round. This area needs to be 8/25/2015 12:22:39 Cheryl Ackerman 21921 preserved for many people to enjoy in the future. 8/25/2015 12:27:28 Stephen Taylor 29642 Duke, Please do your gas project in a way that does not harm or interfere with the natural beauty of our mountains-one of our greatest natural resources that needs to be preserved 8/25/2015 12:37:22 Sue Brown 29615 for now and future generations 8/25/2015 12:45:50 Fred Dempsey 29609 Find a way to use the existing right of ways that you currently have. I don't here any discussion about Duke Energie's use of atrazine, a very toxic herbicide that will be used to maintain the proposed power line right of way. Atrazine is an endocrine 8/25/2015 12:46:05 Joe Townsend 29682 disruptor and suspected carcinogen that will contaminate our watersheds. I find it incredible that Duke would even consider constructing these towers in this majestic and economically crucial region. It is also an extremely important ecological area- 8/25/2015 12:46:35 Kelly Carroll 29681 designated by the Nature Conservancy as one of the 5 hot spots on the entire planet! SCE&G managed to use their existing right-of-ways and towers to increase power for their customers. What do they know that Duke doesn't and why can't Duke find out their secret to accomplishing this? Obviously Duke Power does not care about the beauty or economy of 8/25/2015 12:54:21 Kay Sullivan 29605 our state !! From various readings on this subject, it has been proven that there are many other options available that will not ruin the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North and South Carolina. No one wants huge, ugly towers ruining the landscape when there are other, lower cost 8/25/2015 13:10:32 Donna Smith 29687 options. 8/25/2015 13:21:20 Kathy Meli 28756 This new substation location and transmission lines are completely unacceptable. If you must run lines from Campobello to Asheville, then either use the existing lines and rights of way or bury the lines. Don't tell me 'It's too expensive", since every time Duke spends money they ask for and get a rate increase to cover the costs, and they're not really even 8/25/2015 13:23:56 Becky Walker 28782 very good at fixing outages. To the decision makers at Duke Energy: You have the resources and the opportunity to make this project into an example of how to generate power in a sensitive geographic area in a non-intrusive, non-polluting, community friendly way. A project that won't threaten the homes, livelihoods and natural beauty of a unique place. Contrary to what Wall Street says, your raison d'etre is power generation, not profit. Will you do that in concert with the people whose lives are profoundly affected by your activities, 8/25/2015 13:27:19 Barbara Sanders 29615 choosing to be responsible corporate citizens? Think about what you do! I acknowledge that Asheville needs more electricity and am hopeful a solution will be found that does not destroy our protected lands/private farms and gorgeous views.. Unlike the 8/25/2015 13:28:17 June Yanick 29615 politicians, may we please find a compromise? 8/25/2015 14:02:08 Ann Bass 28722 8/25/2015 14:09:36 Ann Huemmer 29607 I want to preserve our beautiful mountains & do not support the addition of electrical lines & tower by Duke Energy in our Blue Ridge Mountains & I especially do not want them on the pristine childhood camp my son attends each summer, Falling a Creek Camp in Tuxedo, 8/25/2015 14:30:41 Marcia Nash 28803 NC. 8/25/2015 14:33:56 Karen Patterson 28731 Please do not let this happen.

8/25/2015 14:42:11 Rob Gill 29690 Make them follow existing right of way !!!!!!!!!! 8/25/2015 14:59:55 K Badenoch 29609 Please find a way to provide power without destroying the natural beauty of our area. 8/25/2015 15:24:05 Joshua Dulken 28209 Let's find an economical way to make this happen without destroying our beautiful land. The Blue Ridge is one of the pristine beauties of the country. It must not be ruined with 8/25/2015 15:39:58 Becky Cleland 28782 power lines stretching across it and huge towers marring the view!! 8/25/2015 15:42:37 Carole Lyles 29611 8/25/2015 15:43:52 Steven D. Morgan 29642 8/25/2015 15:44:36 Phyllis E. Morgan 29642 There are alternatives to Duke's plans for the transmission line, and to our current wasteful use of energy. There is no alternative to the natural beauty of these mountains, in this place. They are unique in the history of the world, and we should do everything we can to 8/25/2015 15:59:45 David Rutledge 29617 let them be. 8/25/2015 16:15:22 Cheryl August 28782 As a property owner at Lake Adger in Polk County I am requesting that you scrap this transmission line that would very negatively impact the wildlife, natural beauty, and property values of this beautiful area of the foothills in which I have invested a major portion of my 8/25/2015 16:20:08 Lynne Dulken 28210 retirement. 8/25/2015 16:21:05 Chelsea Queen 29673 8/25/2015 16:21:37 Cynthia Knochel 28722 8/25/2015 16:28:40 Christi Cokeley 29388 8/25/2015 16:29:07 Bert Larson 28722 Pls bury the line or build the station in Asheville' 8/25/2015 16:31:44 Donna Rose 28722 I agree with C.S.Lewis who said,"the so-called struggle of man against nature is really a struggle of man against man with NATURE as an instrument." Gandhi warned,Nature had enough for everyone 's need but not enough for everyone's 8/25/2015 16:38:35 Sue Manning 29601 greed." 8/25/2015 16:45:04 Rob Howell 29607 There is a better way. We moved to this area because of the pristine beauty, natural wonders and preserved heritage of the Foothills. It is reprehensible to think this priceless jewel could be sacrificed on the altar of Duke's corporate shortsightedness. Once this stunning landscape is scarred and ruined, there is no going back. After all the dollars spent to successfully promote this unique Upstate area to environmentally-minded tourism and finally seeing our local economies downright flourish, can we really even be having this conversation? Duke will be cutting our legs out from under us at the same time they cut that horrendous wide swath through our treasured forests if this goes through. This is a moral decision to protect not only our families today but also the legacy we are leaving for future generations. This decision 8/25/2015 16:50:07 Lori Wallach 29690 should not be one made in a board room. 8/25/2015 16:58:41 Lisa Marvel 29690 I resent the fact that Duke Energy is taking the lazy way out in this situation--using yesterday's arguments, yesterday's technology, and yesterday's arrogance in relation to the 8/25/2015 17:00:07 Karen Tannenbaum 29605 well-being of our region and its inhabitants. Come on, Duke Energy: Join the 21st century! 8/25/2015 17:03:58 Hannah Woodson 29609 8/25/2015 17:04:37 B. Lee Wessinger 29681-5761 8/25/2015 17:05:39 Julie Woodson 29609 8/25/2015 17:13:16 Donna Rogers 29605 8/25/2015 17:14:38 Chip Collins 28092 Building this monstrosity is insane as well as ignorant of the ever growing hitech alternatives 8/25/2015 17:15:33 John Koerber 28792 surely to rule the area within 10 years--STOP NOW- I own property in both Greenville and Polk Co. and am opposed to this project Duke is 8/25/2015 17:22:58 Emily Edwards 29615 proposing. 8/25/2015 17:23:34 Anne kaplan 29609 Please don't spoil the natural beauty and displace wildlife. I am absolutely OPPOSED to Duke wrecking our beautiful foothills scenery. They should 8/25/2015 17:26:09 Phyllis B. Hilton 29615 use the lines they already have or develop a plan for alternative energy! 8/25/2015 17:32:07 Tandy Taylor 29607 8/25/2015 17:35:47 Jane Knight 29681 There are available options that are alrady in place to handle the power needs of Asheville and surrounding area and they should be utilized so there is no need to ruin our beautiful 8/25/2015 17:40:37 Rita Rao 29672 mountains and forests. 8/25/2015 17:51:12 Luis Fuentes 28803 8/25/2015 17:53:32 Teresa Hendrix 29322 No new transmission lines in the upstate! 8/25/2015 18:19:52 Michele Osland 29642 8/25/2015 18:33:45 Joshua Pratt 29615 8/25/2015 18:43:25 pamela lockhart 29356 I'm against this power line coming though our area! 8/25/2015 18:44:21 Gregory Kinsman 29651 8/25/2015 18:52:37 Thomas Worden 28722 8/25/2015 18:58:05 Angelina Gilstrap-Ross 29693 8/25/2015 19:04:17 Trish Goldberg 29673 8/25/2015 19:32:15 Kay Payne 29650 Quit messing up what little beauty we have left in our country. Power lines/ Transmission lines are known to be hazardous to communities and the environment. Cancer and other blood maladies have been attributed to exposures to power lines. Archives of incidences in the Pennsylvania area during the late 1970s onward 8/25/2015 19:38:35 Delores Lewis 29615 reported communities with high cancer and birth defects, 8/25/2015 19:54:05 Ann Strozzo 28722 Please stop Duke Power!!! They will destroy the beauty of this entire area!!! 8/25/2015 19:55:38 Laura Arnold 29650 I'm sure that a better solution can be found...please keep searching! 8/25/2015 20:03:03 Tracy Wallis 29617 8/25/2015 20:05:22 Gretchen Boehlert 29334 8/25/2015 20:15:57 William Miller 29680 8/25/2015 20:20:08 Jeanette Larson 28722 I support the above petition 100%. I strongly oppose any transmission line route or configuration that disrupts the natural beauty or environmental vitality of the Blue Ridge Mountains or the Western Carolina 8/25/2015 20:25:13 Robert J. Hansen 29617 foothills. scrap the proposed transmission line that would greatly affect the economy and beauty of our northern Greenville County communities. I love to hike in this area and this would not 8/25/2015 20:28:52 Judith Williams 29609 add to the natural beauty of the area i oppose duke energy proposal for a 40 mile transmission line throught the mountains and 8/25/2015 20:45:07 Leora Riordan 29609 foothills of south carolina 8/25/2015 20:49:52 Kris Haugen 29680 I have been a resident of Greenville, SC and a customer of Duke Power/Energy since 1996. A primary reason why I moved to this part of the country is because of the lack of development and utility infrastructure. I do not want to see it now. Never before have I been opposed, nor am I more opposed and obtuse to a plan laid forth by Duke. This must be stopped and stopped dead cold. None of the 40 or so plans laid forth by Duke protect and preserve our heritage, culture and natural beauty and resources of the Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. These has to be a better route and plan and I encourage all to oppose this desecration of our lands. FIND ANOTHER SOLUTION, PROTECT OUR LANDS AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT Y0OUR COSTS/PROFIT 8/25/2015 21:15:57 Ben Lowery 29615 MARGINS. Somethings are more valuable. Ben Lowery/864-281-9697. Please reconsider the placement of your power lines in areas that are important to residents and tourists who come to this part of the world because of the beauty of the place. Thank 8/25/2015 21:29:01 Ann Fuhr 29631 you. Ann Fuhr Though I live in Atlanta, The Foothills in South Carolina are one of my favorite places to 8/25/2015 21:33:13 Elizabeth Hemann 30362 hike. I would hate to see anything spoil out beautiful outdoors. 8/25/2015 21:35:38 Priscilla Ketter 29687 I live in Oregon, but the Upstate was my first home as an adult, leaving my parents' home and settling in Easley, SC. I taught public school, owned a home, attended local universities, and explored the countryside to my heart's content throughout Pickens and Greenville counties. I have lived many places since then, as my husband's work moves me; however, Carolina is home in my heart, and I am in the process of looking for a home to buy in the area so that we may return to it at our leisure. WHile I appreciate the need for updating transmission lines in this country, there has to be a better alternative than this proposed line. The same issues arise in my native area of NJ, where there is a proposed gas pipeline to be put through the Pine Barrens there. Often the best way is more expensive because we get only what we are willing to pay for. There is enough blight upon this lovely place that is Home to all of us. The Carolina's are but a small part of that, and the Upstate a smaller part still. Surely there are alternatives to this particular way of addressing 8/25/2015 21:47:03 Jane Wille 97302 a pressing issue. Please consider the environmental harm to the beauty of these beloved mountains and foothills. Find another 8/25/2015 21:59:00 dabney mahanes 29601 way to do this project!!! 8/25/2015 22:00:53 Bryan V Bentley 29349 I oppose this project! 8/25/2015 22:04:11 Walt Carr 29356 8/25/2015 22:08:36 Willliam Ebeling 29676 Why not reduce the size of the gas plant planned for Asheville? 8/25/2015 22:23:20 William S Dingledine, Jr 29607 I am against this proposed power line. Please don't sacrifice the beauty of our region and deprive our citizens of recreational and 8/25/2015 22:32:37 Kate Combs 28443 economic opportunities for this. 8/25/2015 22:36:08 Michael Phillips 29640 Route 11 is a Scenic Highway. 8/25/2015 22:37:23 Jamie Mitchem 30549 8/25/2015 22:37:25 Betsy McCray 28722 As a resident of Polk County, several of the proposed routes will impact real estate that I own in the area. Not only will the power line deface the beauty of this region, but it will also cause the depreciation of my property values. As a realtor, it will also effect my earning potential. Just the threat of the power line is already impacting buyer's decisions to not purchase property in Polk County until the line is determined. There are alternatives, let's 8/25/2015 22:43:27 Kimberly Karaman 28782 seek to propose one. 8/25/2015 23:10:57 Joan Greene 29316 8/25/2015 23:13:35 Thomas Prostko 29640 This big land grab is unnecessary. The proposed "route 1" follows an existing easement, so clearly following existing easements is possible. Duke should either do the whole thing with existing easements, or else as Upstate Forever argues, get with the 21st century and build a smarter, more efficient, less-centralized power grid, less dependent on long-distance 8/25/2015 23:16:06 Timothy Conover 29630 transmission. 8/25/2015 23:30:49 Brendan Hawthorn 30607 8/26/2015 0:06:13 LARRY J. WAGONER 29671 8/26/2015 5:23:20 Anna Jones 29681 8/26/2015 5:51:03 Douglas Burry 29690 8/26/2015 7:14:41 Karen Balcerzak 29672 8/26/2015 7:34:48 Debra Spear 29609 8/26/2015 7:44:24 Jan Gallaher 29631 Go Upstate Forever for taking a stand to save the Carolina Foothills forever so generations may continue to enjoy this special region. Sincerely, 8/26/2015 7:56:57 Heather Freeman 29322 Heather Freeman 8/26/2015 8:22:13 Elaine Nocks 29605 8/26/2015 8:38:19 Susan Cyr 29605 I wholeheartedly support Upstate Forever's position on this issue! 8/26/2015 8:39:08 Alberta Phayer 29356 8/26/2015 8:44:41 Nancy Oppenheimer-smolen 29672 Bad idea. Bad aesthetically. Bad environmently. Bad decision. There is no going back. Once those lines are built the natural beauty of the area will forever 8/26/2015 8:50:28 Nanci Distler 29693 be altered. I am highly opposed to transmission lines destroying the beauty of the Carolina mountains. 8/26/2015 8:53:51 Julie Berry 29316 Tourism in our area will be affected and it is unfair to the land owners in this area. 8/26/2015 9:25:11 Carol Meeske 29356 8/26/2015 9:40:49 William B. Anderson 29615 8/26/2015 9:52:07 Arland McMullen 29676 Gosh, Duke Energy was SO CAREFUL when building the transmission lines from Badcreek hydroelectric, not to destroy the views among the mountains. This Asheville to Campobello project does not sound as carefully planned.

We who live, work, and play near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, are AGAINST erecting all these power line towers.

Sincerely, Alice Craig 8/26/2015 9:53:00 Alice Craig 29672 Seneca, SC 8/26/2015 9:59:16 Jim Hunter 28762 8/26/2015 10:07:00 John Comerford 29671 Find an alternative to above-ground transmission. 8/26/2015 10:28:08 Delia Laiewski 29615 8/26/2015 10:29:20 Walt Laiewski 29615 8/26/2015 10:33:42 Dr. Gay Claiborne 29615 No, no, no, no. 8/26/2015 10:59:30 Walter S Montgomery 29302 No transmission lines through our mountains!!!!! Find another way. 8/26/2015 11:01:25 Lynne Scruggs 29307 Please no power lines in the mountains and foothills of SC!!!!!!! 8/26/2015 11:07:24 Linda B Hardman 29651-7403 8/26/2015 11:14:14 Diane Rustin 29356 Please find another way. It will certainly diminish our property values. 8/26/2015 11:19:27 Ann Nuckolls 29605 8/26/2015 11:27:32 Bonny Duncan 29661 I visit Lake Summit, NC (impacted by Routes 8A and 20) because of its lovely lake surrounded by pristine woodland. I am opposed to Duke’s proposed project to use Route 8a or 20 for a number of reasons.

1. Of course, like most homeowners, my biggest objection is the removal of my families pleasure living at Lake Summit, as well as the substantial impact to the value of our house, with the edge of your easement being a little over 1000 feet from the edge of our house from proposed Route “8a”. 2. Your 230-kV transmission line routes “8A” and “20” would ruin the pleasure of anyone boating (including homeowners, renters as well as the entire Tuxedo N.C. community) as these 140 foot towers would be clearly visible from most of the lake as well as impact the views from the majority of the houses. 3. Harm to the economy would result. Property values would plummet, resulting in a hardship to Henderson Country for these highly assessed houses and a decline in tourism. 4. Environmental issues result from both “8a” and “20” but “8a” has a number of streams (such as Jones Creek) feeding the lake that are very close to your easement. Pesticides will be used to maintain this 100 foot wide easement that could cause run off. Sensitive habitats would be destroyed. 5. Peace, tranquility and safety of the lake population and surrounding areas will be greatly harmed. Not only by 4 wheelers and others “enjoying” your wide easement but the clearing and installation of the line will be both loud and harmful to the environment and natural ecosystem. Moreover, there is some evidence of higher incidence of cancer living close to electric lines.

Please consider alternative routes, such as along the interstate or cancel this project altogether. I do not think your proposed line is in the best interest of your customers. Have you really investigated a way to bring cleaner, renewable energy from elsewhere in the state rather than using fossil fuels?

Sincerely,

8/26/2015 11:30:46 Kate Dargan 29302 Kate O. Dargan 8/26/2015 12:05:13 Phil Brooks 29657 8/26/2015 12:16:32 James Grizzle 29356 I oppose all aspects of Duke Energy proposed foothills project. 8/26/2015 12:30:27 Judy Wilson 29690 Please preserve our beautiful land and views 8/26/2015 12:51:42 Pete Kennedy 28801 Please use your existing right-of-ways, go underground or don't modernize at all. I just think that is going to such a huge eye sore on the mountains. I hope all parties can 8/26/2015 12:55:28 Nicole Martin 29607 work together to come to a reasonable solution. 8/26/2015 12:55:36 Robert Donovan 29464 8/26/2015 12:59:11 Lynn Ramsey 28732 I say no to the project and oppose it. I live in Fletcher, NC. 8/26/2015 13:00:16 Kevin Hessler 28803 8/26/2015 13:02:20 Jason Mann 28806 8/26/2015 13:04:27 Gia Cappiello 29464 8/26/2015 13:05:58 Blaise Schulten 28801 Please consider another route for the lines, even if it means a few more millions dollars. We only have one planet.

8/26/2015 13:10:45 Tyler Phillips 29696 Tyler I presume when they build a super highway that the most direct route is chosen and have often wondered why Duke doesn't use land adjacent this route, land that has already been spoiled. 8/26/2015 13:20:50 Pat Tillotson 29301 I vote for Duke Energy to scrap the transmission line and to do this project in a way that avoids economic and environmental harm to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the 8/26/2015 13:23:49 Linda Denney 29607 Carolinas. 8/26/2015 13:47:34 Barbara Plachta 29696 Keep the beauty of SC and scrap the transmission line. 8/26/2015 13:51:14 Bradley Chastain 29691 8/26/2015 13:53:50 Dave Benore 29356 8/26/2015 14:05:35 Stephanie Schmidt 29617 I am so opposed to Duke building these transmission lines. The natural beauty of the foothills and mountains of SC and NC are treasures that money can't buy and will be lost forever if Duke builds these lines. I like the idea of a smaller plant and the increased use of 8/26/2015 14:14:17 Ann Withrow 29651 solar power. I oppose the installation of new transmission lines as well as using existing right of ways. 8/26/2015 14:48:32 Lonna Garr 29356 We own 56 acres and a home and purchased it for the view of the beautiful mountains. 8/26/2015 15:07:19 Rob Hrubala 29306 I have lived in Tuxedo on Lake Summit since 1993. I am against segment 8A and segment 20. It would destroy much of the existing habitat and natural beauty of the western North Carolina mountains. Why is it not possible to increase the grid in the existing right of way instead of cutting a 8/26/2015 15:22:21 Edward Hipp 28773 swath through the existing pristine mountains? We very strongly oppose all proposed routes. Duke should use existing rights-of-way or 8/26/2015 15:36:36 Steve and Elizabeth Anderson 29690 build in the area where the need is. No excuse for imposing out-dated technologies on such a colossal scale over and through ecologically diverse and sensitive areas, and what little, irreplaceable wilderness the 8/26/2015 16:11:42 Kathy Edwards 29670 Upstate can still claim. We are stewards! Today's technology offers alternatives to scalping the mountains. Duke Power has access 8/26/2015 17:13:36 Judy D. Collins 29369 to that technology. Surely you can find a way. 8/26/2015 17:27:54 Don Ross 29605 I support Upstate Forever in its potion to scrap the transmission line and to do the project in a way that protects the beauty and environment of The Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills 8/26/2015 17:28:34 Anne Nixon 29615 of the Carolinas. A transmission line and towers would be devastating to the beauty, character and ecology of 8/26/2015 17:36:10 Patricia Stamey 29625 this beautiful area! I support Upstate Forever in its petition to scrap the transmission line and to do the project in a way that protects the beauty and environment of The Blue Ridge Mountains and 8/26/2015 17:37:48 Anne Nixon 29615 Foothills of the Carolinas. 8/26/2015 17:40:30 Pat 29678 Say "NO" to transmission line through the forests. 8/26/2015 17:53:58 James Cleary 29676 8/26/2015 17:54:26 Martha Cleary 29676 We su Please support the sacred placed and protect the landscapes that we love and want to enjoy 8/26/2015 18:03:41 Tricia Kyzer 29661 for years to come. I 100% support this petition and am thoroughly encouraging friends and family to sign as 8/26/2015 18:33:15 Cameron 29605 well. 8/26/2015 19:22:22 John Connelly 29690 Don't ruin our pristine forest. Come up with a better solution! 8/26/2015 19:22:36 Peter Sammis 28782 8/26/2015 19:32:30 Karen Snow 29680 8/26/2015 19:48:08 Kate Eckhardt 28759 This is a cart before the horse situation. There's no clear evidence that this new line is needed. It's a land grab and I will die protecting my right to own this land. It has been one 8/26/2015 19:54:10 Sally F Williams 28790 of my best friend for nearly 40 years. I have many neighbors who feel the same. 8/26/2015 20:14:07 Rivers Farmer 29609 This petition will have no affect on what Duke Energy does since the Department of Energy 8/26/2015 21:31:13 Terry Bolt 29621 is in their back pocket. 8/26/2015 21:57:09 Monte Bedford 29670 Please NO NEW transmission lines through the Foothills and mountains! Thank you. 8/26/2015 21:58:30 Audrey Barker 29678 the mountains will be destroyed with presence of power lines. Duke Energy does not need to destroy our beautiful Upstate woodlands. They can just use existing power lines. We have worked hard to maintain this wonderful corner of SC. Do not 8/26/2015 22:16:03 Sharon Fennell 29631 let Duke Energy desecrate the SC mountains. 8/26/2015 22:17:27 Andrew H. Smyth 29621 I want to be able to enjoy the mountains of North and South Carolina with my children and 8/26/2015 23:06:59 Kenneth Fields 29607 leave them in a way that my grandchildren can enjoy them too! This transmission line will PERMANENTLY scar the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Foothills of the Carolinas. It will be UGLY and reduce property values because of the 8/26/2015 23:41:06 Richard Thomas 28768 lost beauty. 8/27/2015 5:28:30 Max 29669 8/27/2015 5:59:42 RA DAWSON 29356 This will be a travesty. 8/27/2015 6:13:06 Dalton Mills 29464 8/27/2015 6:48:38 Charlotte Benford 30513 I am heartbroken at the prospect of this massive proposed development!!!!!! 8/27/2015 7:04:53 Joshua Tremper 29609 8/27/2015 7:12:15 Grace Gillis 29676 Too many unanswered questions and too many evasive answers. Time to put a stop to this 8/27/2015 7:19:32 Kent Holden 28722 before our beautiful landscape is scarred forever. One of the main reasons I moved to this area was the natural beauty, and ecological health. 8/27/2015 7:21:50 Ron Strilaeff 28712 All new development should avoid taking that away. Preserve the beauty of the upstate, it is our most important resource. No new transmission 8/27/2015 7:35:45 Ellyce Brenner 29690 lines!! Save our Foothills and Blue Ridge a Mountains from this eyesore that will devastate our 8/27/2015 7:55:16 Sandra Sibley 28722 economy and environment. 8/27/2015 8:01:21 Barbara Blanton 29651 8/27/2015 8:18:20 John Witmer 29631 8/27/2015 8:30:13 JANE C. HURT 29650 8/27/2015 8:44:39 David Augspurger 29691 Stop this stupid eye sore and environmentally damaging project. 8/27/2015 8:58:47 David Gillis 29676 I am opposed to the proposed Duke Energy plan to put transmission lines through our 8/27/2015 9:10:52 Ann Jones 29607 scenic wilderness. Ann Jones 8/27/2015 9:12:38 Bill Jones 29615 Don't let Duke Energy do this Duke Energy, Please consult with Upstate Forever and the other organizations that suggest alternative options to the transmission towers and lines. Our hills and mountains are under constant assault from development, please don't add to the problem.

Sincerely, 8/27/2015 9:13:17 Charles Chancellor 29631 Charles Chancellor 1) Is there truly a current or future need for the power line and substation? 2) If so, is there no way to use and expand existing rights of way? 3) Is Duke Energy completely tone deaf? 4) Routing lines through the most preserved areas of the upstate might be cheaper because you don't have to pay for private rights of way. That should not be the controlling factor. The fact that land and views have been preserved should cause Duke Energy to look 8/27/2015 9:22:29 Jeff Karmilovich 29601 elsewhere. 8/27/2015 9:42:45 Mary Margaret Jones 29787 8/27/2015 9:49:58 Anna Robertson 28803 Find a another way to do it! Nowires Stop this madness! For real!!! Why does every point of earth by touched by technology! 8/27/2015 9:53:33 Lori Jenkins 29690 Leave it be. 8/27/2015 10:07:25 Julie Haggard 28712 8/27/2015 10:10:55 Lanny Webster 29605 Scrap the line, please! 8/27/2015 10:11:48 W. M. Webster lll 29605 Scrap the line! Please do not rape our beautiful mountains with these ugly power lines. Let's keep what we 8/27/2015 10:12:55 Karen Dillingham 29607 have for future generations. It is my opinion that it is time for Duke Power to start looking at alternative operations and use new developing technology to serve consumers locally as opposed to stretching new miles of suspended cable across the Blue Ridge. There has to be alternatives to a plan such as this that can allow better use of local electrical provision. This plan as it stands is a detriment on many fronts, and the protection of the mountainous landscape from invasive 8/27/2015 10:14:57 Eddie Martin 29686 construction and view-scape destruction should be paramount and forthright. The needed upgrades to transmission should focus on unique strategies to use existing infrastructure. Additional focus should be dedicated to preserving and restoring canopy 8/27/2015 10:15:30 Scott Park 29609 throughout their system, including urbanized neighborhoods. 8/27/2015 10:15:54 James Fowler 29605 This is a bad idea. Let's protect our wild places. 8/27/2015 10:17:29 Laura Bain 29609 Please consider another, more sustainable, option. 8/27/2015 10:27:49 Carol Wickliffe 29607 8/27/15 10:41 James Toye 29625 8/27/15 10:45 Katherine Rogers 29670

South Carolina's mountains are few, but exquisitely beautiful. Too many people have worked to have them destroyed by a company only interested in maximizing its profits and not the 8/27/15 10:48 John Carl Dennis 29301 people it serves. This is the same company that was caught manipulating rates in California. 8/27/15 11:11 Jared Hancock 29690 8/27/15 11:16 Robert E Howard 29601 8/27/15 11:19 Sarah Alexander 29689 Don't need another pristine land ruined! Must be alternate ways. 8/27/15 11:22 Colby Devane 29620 Decentralization of energy wasting transmission is the future since a huge percentage of generated/harvested power is lost through movement over large distances.

All commercial interests promoting decentralized power are put at a competitive disadvantage by building transmission routes through frontiers for decentralization.

Thus those out of state companies intent on selling batteries, photo-voltaic cells, windmills, cable, etc. to home owners, municipalities, and even Duke Energy itself are put at a competitive disadvantage.

8/27/15 11:32 Austin McMurria 29606 Isn't this restraint of interstate commerce? We have to be held accountable for the altering of the landscape of our pristine mountains and valleys that are like no other in the U.S. We have to be good stewards of this God given gift. Duke Power must recognize that disruption of natural habitats, waterways, and terrains will cause irreversible damage. This is not what the citizens of South Carolina want 8/27/15 11:39 Katherine Bowie 29671 for our state. 8/27/15 11:51 Heidi Hall 77550 8/27/15 12:08 Lee Finklea 29565 Once done it can never be undone. 8/27/15 12:11 Kathryn Overstreet 28739 8/27/15 12:17 Richard Ricketts 29676 I am in support of the petition to save our environment. There must be an alternative to running that line over the top of these mountains. Duke 8/27/15 12:17 Kathy Ferrell 29651 Power needs to put more thought and if needed more money into re-routing the line. 8/27/15 12:25 Shirley R. Miller 29672 2097 8/27/15 12:27 C R and Judy Maxwell 29615 Do not build this line !!! 8/27/15 12:30 Brock Jackson 29654 8/27/15 12:37 Wesley Burnett 29630 Another pointless, inexplicable and offensive project. 8/27/15 12:44 Brad Wyche 29601 This land is your land ,this land is my land.from the New York island to California. This land was made for you and me.They don't have the right to destroy the beauty of America in effort of their profit, going solar is needed for Americans. Save the property of all 8/27/15 12:59 Sandra Sullivan 29330 Americans.This is wrong!Stop this nonsense! We own property at Caesars Head and are familiar with the proposed routes and we question the need for any new transmission lines and urge consideration of other 8/27/15 13:05 Ann Timberlake 29205 alternatives. 8/27/15 13:17 Melynda Williams 29651 8/27/15 13:19 Roxanne Cromartie 29607 I oppose Duke Energy plans for transmission lines through the Blue Ridge and Foothills 8/27/15 13:24 Becky 29696 Leave the land the way it is. Don't disrupt the environment for that area. 8/27/15 13:39 Kathy Dorrien 2482 Please avoid the Blue Ridge Mtns as you consider these projects. The beauty of the 8/27/15 13:58 Beverly Berry 29565 mountains nor the wildlife habitat should be disturbed! Thank you. 8/27/15 14:43 Kathi Strivelli 29642 8/27/15 14:45 Alex and Carolyn Burgin 29644 We support Upstate Forever petition Own property at Bright's Creek in Polk County...one of the proposed routes would adversely affect local beauty 8/27/15 14:59 Douglas Snyder 29685 and property values.

Duke Hierarchy Please DO NOT MOVE FORWARD with the transmission line project!! Please keep the mountains environmentally protected for all generations to come. The mountains, rivers and lakes are precisely why we live here. We do not want them harmed or altered in any way.

Thank You

8/27/15 15:22 Thomas Smolen 29672 T A Smolen 8/27/15 15:42 JK Marlow 29690 8/27/15 15:51 Marcia Weekes 29607 Duke energy wastes energy every month by mailing me a letter telling me I am one of the 8/27/15 16:12 Ann Wynn 29681 lowest energy users in my area. 8/27/15 16:13 Margaret Depp 18938

We are opposed to this unfortunate proposal and ask you to withdraw from it. Our beautiful land is important to us and must be respected and kept pristine for future generations. 8/27/15 16:18 Gesa Hueckel 29369 respectfully, Gesa Hueckel I support upstate forever's request for Duke Energy to scrap the proposed transmission line 8/27/15 16:21 Fran Burns 29635 between Asheville, NC and Campobello. If there is a need to transmit electricity to Buncombe County, then something must be done. I prefer to see NC produce their own and not have to depend on SC for anything. Just saying don't do it doesn't cut it. Alternatives need to be proposed. I will come to the meeting at LHS tonite. I have no problem with converting the Lake Julian plant to natural 8/27/15 16:22 G. Philip Goodrich 28722 gas. I support upstate forever regarding the adverse economic and environmental impact. 8/27/15 16:35 Leslie Flynn 29685 8/27/15 16:47 Trish Haden 29687 Don't ruin our foothills and the beauty we still have here. 8/27/15 16:55 Katie Gallivan 29607 8/27/15 16:55 BETTZ WHITEHEAD 29356 8/27/15 17:08 Robert Horton 29321 Stop Duke Now and Forever This is old-style thinking. I call on Duke Energy to come up with a solution that meets power 8/27/15 17:10 Deb Imershein 29676 needs and the needs of the area's ecology. 8/27/15 17:23 Sarah Brice 29605 8/27/15 17:24 William Bunch 30577 We don't need a power line going thru the most scenic part of the South Carolina mountain 8/27/15 17:33 Sue L. Inman 29605 They are damaging the beauty of the countryside with this plan. They need to find an 8/27/15 17:33 Bob Stricker 29672 alternative plan. Please DO NOT go through with this awful idea for a 40-mile long transmission line. Instead please consider other alternatives, especially those that are energy efficient. Duke likes to 8/27/15 18:33 Cathy Edwards 29615 talk the talk on energy efficiency and solar power. Let's see them walk the walk. As a graduate of Furman University, it hurts my heart to hear that you are planning on scarring some of the most beautiful forest area in the Carolinas. If you had been putting your money into developing solar and wind energy (and we had information 4 decades ago that these are [and were] some of the best options for energy independence and minimal environmental impact,) there would be no NEED for these kinds of transmission towers. 8/27/15 19:00 Judith Powell 27607 When are you going to wise up?? 8/27/15 19:22 Will and Phyllis Sheriff 29640 8/27/15 19:24 Ken Siegel 29302 8/27/15 19:24 Hope Siegel 29302 8/27/15 19:39 John Malloy 28782 Please reconsider using SC to provide energy to NC and ruining the beauty of the Blue 8/27/15 20:25 Kathryn Cobb 29681 Ridge Mountains Please seriously explore alternative routes/methods. 8/27/15 20:30 Debbie Call 29681 8/27/15 20:46 Virginia Johnson 29617 8/27/15 20:57 David Ames 19722 Scrap it 8/27/15 21:03 Susan NIgh 29681 Scrap the transmission line!!!!! 8/27/15 21:05 Mary Hays Huguley 30075 8/27/15 21:21 Carol Self 29697 8/27/15 21:25 James Burrell 29615-3846 There are alternatives. 8/27/15 21:28 Jon Chalmers 29615 8/27/15 21:37 Wayne Bruce 29356 Take the lines and put them in Ashville and don't destroy what I have worked 45 years for. 8/27/15 21:50 Laura Blume 29690 8/27/15 21:59 Shelia 29669 PLEASE do not do this to us and the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains! 8/27/15 22:11 Cal Harrelson 29577 Scrap the transmission line, please. 8/27/15 22:14 Ellen Kochansky 29671 8/27/15 22:19 Dana Lowie 29609 8/27/15 22:36 catherine mcinnis 36561 No! Scrap now! Please help us maintain the integrity of our mountains and foothills by finding an alternate to 8/27/15 22:57 Alexis Versalle 28739 the proposed transmission line. Hell no to Duke power who is an irresponsible steward of the environment and cannot be 8/27/15 23:04 Gary Clontz 28721 trusted to watch out for anyone but it's own interests. Carving through huge tracts of gorgeous land to build a power company eye sore is just wrong. Keep our lands preserved. Thanks Brad Wyche and staff of Upstate Forever for 8/27/15 23:37 Stephanie A. Sullivan 29615 championing this cause and getting the word out. 8/28/15 0:04 Ashley Hudson-Hines 92104 8/28/15 3:03 Daniel M. Einstein 29605 8/28/15 5:36 Tony McDade 29681 Preserve our unique places! Become the leader in sustainable energy that supports the natural beauty of the 8/28/15 7:03 Lesley Quast 29687 environment and the lives within. Please DO NOT destroy the beauty of our Mountains and foothills. There are alternatives to the unsightly power towers; "we the people" have spoken, please pursue the other options 8/28/15 7:32 Michael Ellis 29644 on your table. I live near segment 4. The lines will pass within one third mile of the Greenville Watershed on old 25. The chemicals sprayed to kill vegetation around the power lines may blow over with the wind or wash off with the rain into the pristine areas of the watershed. The chemicals will go into Painter Creek and Terry Creek as the lines pass over. These waters will also pass down the mountain and go into our very pure source of drinking water. This will hurt everyone in Greenville County. Greenville water won an award for being the best tasting water in North America. Please do not pollute our creeks, streams and pristine water 8/28/15 7:55 Kay Molnar 29690 source! Because you can, Duke, is not a good reason. Dare to think. Your culture of harm to this Earth is reaching new heights. You continue to tell people to be quiet and sacrifice for the "greater good". It's time for your board of directors to step out in the sunlight and own this 8/28/15 8:06 Michelle Shain 29605 mess. 8/28/15 8:25 Carly Drew 29690 8/28/15 8:39 Jane Pleak 30458 8/28/15 8:46 Bruce Snyder 29605 8/28/15 8:48 Amy Brown 29617 NO transmission lines -- there are better ways! 8/28/15 8:51 Leslie Kline Norwood 29690 8/28/15 8:57 Taylor Speer 29605 Please don't force your industry into our beautiful region. Keep South Carolina natural areas safe undisturbed and 8/28/15 9:00 Richard Metz 19038 Free of transmission lines. Duke's proposed power lines will be an insult to the environment and the people who live near the proposed path. They should re-use existing lines. Furthermore, the energy 8/28/15 9:08 Elaine Hester 29615 produced will not even go to South Carolina... 8/28/15 9:30 Jacques Abelman 40233 8/28/15 9:49 Carter R. Hall 29605 8/28/15 10:05 Jeff Kimbrell 29681 8/28/15 10:12 Jeanne Brooks 29605 8/28/15 10:14 Sandra Woodward 29631 We do not want this project. It does not benefit South Carolina in any way and will disrupt 8/28/15 10:28 Keith Spring 29356 the natural beauty of the mountains. This project is unbeneficial to our state economic and ecological system. I Suggest a separate power plant to support Asheville ,NC, or at least burying the lines for a less effect on the visual presence. Our mountains are in danger already with the threat of overdevelopment. We need to find 8/28/15 10:34 Beth Spring 29356 another power source. 8/28/15 10:41 Gay W Peden 29307 8/28/15 11:03 Christie S. Gifford 29615 Thank you for your hard work to protect our upstate!!! 8/28/15 11:10 John Henry Gifford 29615 8/28/15 11:11 Emma Rhodes Gifford 29615 8/28/15 11:12 Olin Parham Gifford 29615 8/28/15 11:12 Dexter Lawing Gifford 29615 8/28/15 11:40 Laura Hughes 86301 The South Carolina Upstate and Western North Carolina have a natural beauty and deep historical significance treasured by residents and visitors. I understand and support the need to transition from coal fueled electrical generation. However, I hope that Duke Energy will scale and plan their project appropriately to avoid destroying the very nature of the 8/28/15 11:59 Jean L Wright 28782 communities they seek to serve. 8/28/15 11:59 Janice Levasseur 29661 8/28/15 12:43 Gail Denton 29650 Please, no!!!!! I was born and raised in Greenville County and love spending time in the foothills and mountain areas around Greenville, like Landrum, Tryon, Saluda etc. As a fellow native, I am 8/28/15 12:44 Anna Caffry 29650 too very proud of our beautiful area and want very much to keep it that way. 8/28/15 12:55 Ben Rudd 29690 8/28/15 13:17 Mary Lou McInerney 29322 8/28/15 13:22 Neely Alexander 29689 Don't spoil our wonderful area. 8/28/15 13:22 Amanda M. Reno 29349 I enjoy hiking in the mountains with my family. One of the reasons I moved to the Upstate 15 years ago was because of the mountains being so close to me. The mountains in the Upstate are a huge asset to our area and I believe this would affect our area in many negative ways. Why can't a billion dollar company not come up with a better solution? There must be a better way. I am very disappointed to hear about this. I have never signed a petition for anything before but felt compelled to do so because this personally affects me and many of my friends. I think this is more about greed than about providing service to their customers. I do not think that Duke has the right attitude when it comes to the environment, especially after dumping coal ash into the rivers of NC recently. When will we as a nation decide that solar power is the better alternative? This is such a sad predicament that Duke 8/28/15 14:06 John Wallace IV 29644 has put us in. 8/28/15 14:07 Jenifer McDermott 29607 8/28/15 14:16 William Brown 29687 These lines should be buried. I oppose Rt 4 and the total project in general. I cannot see where it provides any economic value to South Carolina and does irreparable harm to property values, tourism and the 8/28/15 14:26 E W Penn Jr 29607 beauty of the upstate of South Carolina. Please do the right thing and DO NOT ALLOW THIS RAPING IF OUR MOUNTAINS ! Consider alternative energy, under ground lines, etc...the technology is there other Countries are using alternative energy and underground lines... PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, duke energy, do what is right for the people and our environment and our mountains !!! 8/28/15 14:36 Sandy Lastein 28731 Be kind...not greedy !!! 8/28/15 14:42 Darlene Parker 20609 There has to be another route other than destroying the blue ridge mountains, there is alot more that comes along with you build ing your line, and that is 4x4 vehicles that always tear 8/28/15 14:50 Ken Borsick 29673 up your maintanence trails thus destroying more and more land. Find another way! 8/28/15 15:21 Margaret Allen 29615 Good luck Upstate Forever! Thank you for all you do! 8/28/15 15:26 Eric Isabelle 28756 8/28/15 15:40 Cheryl P Hall 29640 8/28/15 16:00 Paula Rauscher 29671 Explore all other options! 8/28/15 16:12 Deana McAnulty 29671 I strongly oppose the transmission lines running right through our Blue Ridge Mountains. 8/28/15 16:57 John Klinedinst 29605 8/28/15 17:18 Clara Ziehm 29681 We do NOT need these transmission lines and high towers in this area. 8/28/15 17:59 Paula Noble 29607 I support scraping the proposed Duke energy transmission line. 8/28/15 18:05 Don Meador 29356 8/28/15 20:20 Michael Jessup 29403 8/28/15 20:51 Mark Levin 28722 There has got to be a better way. Scrap the overhead lines! Shame on Duke! What a travesty! This is nothing more than a corporate grab. There are far more reasonable and respectable ways to accomplish this corporate goal without spoiling a 8/28/15 21:39 Kari Daceu 28782 lot of beautiful territory and damaging lives and property. Please listen to voices of reason. 8/28/15 21:56 Margaret Bynum 29631 8/28/15 22:36 Adam Tyson 29609 please stop this short-sighted project before we ruin even more of our natural heritage 8/28/15 22:37 Elizabeth Tyson 29609 8/28/15 23:02 Susan Davis 28722 Please don't do this if it is truly not needed and it is just for the company's personal gain 8/29/15 8:25 Emily Edwards 29615 I am opposed to this project 8/29/15 8:30 P Diane Buie 29609 They have already polluted the Dan river and potentially poisened the citizens where I live now. It sickens me to think they will do the same to my beautiful birthplace! Shame on Duke 8/29/15 8:57 Joseph Burdette 27284 Energy and the monopoly they hold over us!! 8/29/15 10:14 Curt Westlake 29605 Against proposal due to health issues and ruining our property that they have no right to. I 8/29/15 10:47 Jean Gosnell 29356 work hard for my property and I want to keep every inch of it. Please do not proceed through our wilderness areas, whose pristine beauty must be 8/29/15 11:05 Stan Starnes 29609 protected for future generations. thank you. Western North Carolina is a place of natural beauty which is the primary draw for tourists in our area. Also, many of those who live here stayed because we love its natural beauty. And you would brazenly wreck the beauty we love so much by erecting huge electric towers and miles of lines across our beloved area! Please, find some other way to manage your needs 8/29/15 11:47 Becky Cleland 28782 and preserve what everyone loves about Western North Carolina. South Carolina has no benefit from scarring up the landscape. Duke should solve its North 8/29/15 12:40 JOHN COLLIER 29644 Carolina problem in North Carolina. Use existing routes. They're unsightly enough. J.C. Lindsey was my Great grandfather, he grew up in those mountains, and I would hate to see such a beautiful thing become an eye sore BC of a money hungry energy company. Please email me if I can help. I would pay a little more for power and it be a little more inefficient in order to perseve the beauty of the landscape. And in return for this eye sore what does Duke offer, nothing I'm sure, maybe pennies on the dollar for your land that will 8/29/15 13:09 Marcus Hopkins 29650 become their right of way. 8/29/15 14:24 Gloria Askins 29651 I oppose this project - Scrap the transmission line! There is absolutely no reason for new routes. Use the existing right-of-ways and expand 8/29/15 15:06 John Pellew 29609 them a little if necessary. There is absolutely no reason for new routes. Use the existing right-of-ways and expand 8/29/15 15:11 Sally Pellew 29609 them a little if necessary. 8/29/15 15:37 Jo Mason 28791 no one wants this or deserves this. 8/29/15 15:44 Curt Westlake 29605 8/29/15 16:31 Chalmers G. Bruce 28790 I have written directly to Duke Energy asking them to revise their strategy in a way that will 8/29/15 17:13 David Drach 29615 protect the environment and scenic beauty of our area. 8/29/15 18:41 Bron Kelley 29673 8/29/15 19:05 Elizabeth Moore 29615 I am also registering my disapproval with Duke Energy and elected officials. 8/29/15 20:43 Matthew Chaney 29609 Please allow us to preserve the natural beauty here. 8/29/15 23:01 Steve Fischer 29681 8/29/15 23:09 Gary L Williams 28731 We do not want to destroy our beautiful land!!!!!! 8/29/15 23:11 Mary Tolles 28756 I agree that the most efficient way to achieve the cancellation of the proposed power transmission line is to increase efficiency and reduce power usage, and to use more solar and wind power. Also the size of the proposed new gas plant in Asheville by half. Duke does not need to ruin the ecology and the beauty of the areas where the proposed transmission line would cause so many problems and economic loss for the area. Thank you, Duke Energy, for your record of excellent public and customer relations. Please show yourself a willing good citizen and partner with the people of this area to maintain and improve the protection of the beauty and healthy ecology of these areas which would be affected by the 8/30/15 5:49 Glen Hudson 29609 proposed transmission line. Thank you. 8/30/15 6:37 Mary Arnett 28773 I strongly request that the proposed transmission line not destroy both the beauty and the economic health of our beautiful woodland area between Campobello and Asheville, If 8/30/15 8:34 Dot Bishop 29617 increased transmission is necessary, please use the existing line and right of way. We STRONGLY oppose a transmission line that affects the residents of Lake Summit, NC. The visual effect of 140' towers cutting through virgin forests and pristine streams would be devastating, and there would also be a tremendous impact on wildlife habitat. In addition, the impact of clear cutting right of way would attract ATVs that would greatly increase noise pollution and environmental damage to ground 6-segments 8A and 20. Those 2 segments would create loss of market value for us and our community

Why not use existing right of way along I-26-- less expensive to Duke and its customers and minimal negative visual impact??

The impact of 140' high towers would be bad. Most towers you see are only around 80' high. Think of a 14 story building repeated every 100 yards or so that would devastate the serenity of this area. Furthermore, Lake Summit is not just enjoyed by property owners, but there is public access so everyone from the area can enjoy the beautiful views, along with campers and their families coming from all across the country. The negative impact for tourism in NC would be devastating.

We feel VERY strongly that this would be a tremendous deficit and will do everything we can to fight your ruining our views. 8/30/15 8:42 Elizabeth Atkins Bell 28210 This project is unnecessary, and any route chosen would destroy the area. Find a better 8/30/15 9:07 Heather Bistyga 29609 way! 8/30/15 11:53 Pete Cantrell 29609 The transmission line would destroy one of the very reasons that brings people to the Upstate and western North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Mountains are a national treasure and we need to preserve their unique beauty. 8/30/15 12:47 Carol Miller 29617 It is time that the "big" guys need to care about our environment. The corporate mindset of "how many dollars can I generate" must change. Everyone has lived with this same problem from providers for as long as I have lived. 73 years- In the old days we were not so educated about the ramifications of these huge corporate projects. We all are all smarter now ,even the executives who made this horrible destructive environmental decision. 8/30/15 12:49 Sharon Steinmann 29601 STOP!!! I oppose this project because of the damage it would bring to a beautiful and environmentally sensitive area. It also seems wrong to subvert the wishes of landowners in the region, especially those who signed conservation easements in order to protect their 8/30/15 13:28 Donna Cantrell 29609 properties from any kind of development. 8/30/15 13:53 Joseph Petty 29356 No Duke Power Lines!!! 8/30/15 13:55 Page Petty 29356 No Duke Power Lines!! We are opposed to the lines particularly 8A and 20 which effect Lake Summit. These lines are too close to the lake in a very pristine area (8A) which is referred to as Pregnant Lady 8/30/15 14:12 George and Deborah Johnson 28773 Mountain. Duke Energy has proven repeatedly a callous disregard for the negative effect its projects have on the environment and the public. Duke's single goal is, and always shall be, profit. Greed is Duke's driving philosophy: EVERY statement issued by them, EVERY promise filled with nothing but lies. The Blue Ridge has suffered enough from Duke's pathological search for more profit and power. It is time the public stands up against this destructive, greed-driven corporation before it destroys even more of our homes and health.

8/30/15 14:34 MELISSA SAVINO 28712 Please--we cannot have the beautiful mountain vistas ruined by unsightly wires and towers. Too many people have worked too long and spent too much money to allow this great treasure to be destroyed, especially when there are other 8/30/15 16:15 Jo Ann Walker 29607 ways to accomplish Duke's goals. Please find another way to do this! I would rather pay more for my electricity than have the 8/30/15 16:24 Rebecca A.Evans 29615 natural beauty of NC and SC compromised. 8/30/15 16:34 Leslie Cochrane 29673 Willing to pay higher rates or endure peak-demand power reductions, but not willing to see 8/30/15 16:37 Scott McCrary 29617 the permanent scarring of the environment. Please find a way to avoid the 40 miles of transmission lines through the WNC and SC 8/30/15 16:41 Alice McCrary 29617 Upstate areas, preferably by investing in power conservation or solar-based projects. I am most concerned about Route 4, which would adversely and irreparably affect Camp Old Indian, the water shed, the Cliffs Communities and the general welfare, ecology, beauty, and economy of this area of South Carolina with no benefit to South Carolina. I understand that this project was not even brought up in the 2014 overview of Duke's future proposals and the completed project would increase the Asheville area's power availability by 100%, way beyond any reasonably foreseeable needs. Why would they overbuild so excessively with technology and energy laws changing so quickly? It makes me wonder if their plans 8/30/15 17:12 Dianne Jordan 29609 include selling excess power to non-local areas at our expense. My wife and I live at 1479 Skyuka Mountain Road, Columbus, NC. We attended the public meeting held by Duke Energy in Landrum. We were stunned and dismayed to learn we live along Segment 5 of the proposed transmission line. We stopped by the GIS station at the meeting and learned that the edge of the right of way would be approximately 100 feet of our house and well. Our concerns are the permanent destruction of the mature hardwood forest directly in front of our home but also with the inevitable spraying of herbicides so close to our well that would be necessary to maintain the right of way but we are also concerned for the impact this project would have on the entire corridor from Asheville to Campobello. One of the consistent comments of visitors to our area as they drive up I-26 from South Carolina is the view of the mountains rising abruptly above the Piedmont. It is inconceivable to us that Duke Energy would consider marring this viewscape with the transmission line running across the face of the mountain. We feel strongly that if the line is even necessary that Duke Energy reconstruct the existing towers in existing rights of way to carry the new lines. I have always considered Duke energy a good corporate citizen but I am rethinking that in light of the comments made by Duke officials regarding this project. A comment was made by a Duke spokesman in a letter to the Tryon Daily Bulletin which inferred that the line would be built and stated "some folks would be disappointed". Disappointed does not begin to describe our feelings regarding the project. 8/30/15 17:55 David R. Lavender 28722 We ask that the project be re-evaluated to determine if it is even necessary. 8/30/15 18:45 Julie Mathis 29356 Burry the lines! My husband and I specifically moved to Tryon, NC because of the natural beauty - and the fact local residents were committed to keep the area as commerce-free as possible. We were attracted by the lack of big-box stores, the rich heritage of care for the community, and the extensive equestrian trail system - a rarity. Not only will our property values be significantly impacted by the proposed Duke plan, but our way of life.

I fear what the lines will do to demoralize the community - to lessen their resolve to keep the place beautiful and safe. The Foothills area is characterized, not just by its beauty, but by the fact the residents are proud of living there - and they do what they can to help the poor as well as the more well-to-do.

Please find an alternative. This is a moral decision, not merely an economic or political one. The proposed lines will create irreversible damage to the mountains - and perhaps to the 8/30/15 19:49 Maureen Gallatin 28782 people of the Foothills. 8/30/15 20:16 Jo Prostko 29609 8/30/15 20:32 Amy 28732 8/31/15 6:41 Christina Neal 29650

8/31/15 7:10 Betsy Williams 28712 I oppose the Duke Energy transmission line proposed for North and upstate South Carolina. 8/31/15 7:33 Greg Garrett 28784 Stop this! I have many, many concerns about the towers. One of my main concerns is the damage to the Greenville Watershed on Route 4. This will have a negative impact on the pristine 8/31/15 8:44 Ed Molnar 29690 source of drinking water for all the residents of Greenville County! 8/31/15 8:47 Paul Daley 28731 8/31/15 8:48 Barbara Reid 29640 8/31/15 8:48 Steven Fore 29670 Please try not to be so evil, Duke Power.

My parents bought a house in the country to help me recover from Leukemia. If Route 4 goes through, we will try to move, but real estate transactions near us are on hold, so we might not be able to sell if the lines go through here. There are dozens of young children near us who will also be affected by these towers. The towers are going over the North Saluda River. The run-off from the chemicals used to kill vegetation in the 150 easement will go into the river. Our natural heritage of creeks, streams and rivers in this area, our "Blue 8/31/15 8:56 Susan Molnar 29690 Wall" as the Cherokees called it, will be effected. Please do not pollute us or our "Blue Wall"! 8/31/15 8:51 Kristen McNeely 29690 NO ! 8/31/15 9:01 Esther Kelly 29306 Please find a better way! Defacing our mountains is not acceptable! Despite the Zip Code, we are also Cliffs Valley property owners. Too many have toiled for decades to preserve the pristine beauty of the impacted area to despoil it. While adequate power is needed by all, it appears that Duke does have options---along its existing right of way. Option #4 is especially onerous to us. Thank you for your outstanding work here---and 8/31/15 9:05 Edward & Mary Ann Pires 29609 for many years. I am opposed to any of the proposed transmission lines as they are now. My family lives on property that has been in this name for 9 generations. The pristine beauty of the mountains and our back yard would be greatly diminished by this line. My husband's business operates out Lone Pine Drive in Mill Spring. There is one way in and one way out from the shops of this business. The proposed line would stretch across our driveway which is used by trucks to haul equipment in and out. If there was a problem with a downed line it would block access by emergency vehicles trying to come into our driveway. Please reconsider a plan that does not mar the beauty of the area that the proposed lines now would cross. Lets keep 8/31/15 9:13 Judy Arledge 28756 the views free from these lines. Duke Energy,

We love our beautiful mountains the way they are. Don't destroy that beauty. Also do not run lines across Lutheridge pioneer camp in Arden, NC.

8/31/15 9:27 Howard Leonard 29607 Howard Leonard Please don't infringe on those beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains!! We only have one earth to 8/31/15 9:39 K.J. Casey 29615 save! 8/31/15 10:07 Matt Goldsmith 29607