by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Pipelines
A Native American tribe in Wisconsin has voted against renewing agreements allowing Enbridge Inc to use their land for a major crude oil pipeline, the latest sign of increasing opposition to North American energy infrastructure. The Bad River Band decided not to renew...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Pipelines
Cookie Cole, her face a portrait of grief and ire, flings toward the sky a handful of creek water. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and photographer Marino Colmano of Blacksburg captured the moment. Cole laments the risk that the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Health & Safety
How is this related to our focus on the pipeline? With fossil fuel infrastructure comes extensive health and safety concerns. With our health care compromised, well, the problems compound… Virginia Organizing, our umbrella organization, asked us to post this to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Compressor Stations
DANIEL SANGJIB MIN/TIMES-DISPATCH Doug Ange (foreground) joined other Buckingham County residents Thursday at a public hearing on a special-use permit that would allow the construction of a natural gas-powered compressor station....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 12, 2017 | Compressor Stations
JORDAN MILES | HERALD Pipeline opponent Annie Lou Parr gave an emotional testimony to the board of supervisors Thursday, urging them to deny the needed permit to construct the compressor station. County supervisors in Buckingham approved a special use permit for a...
