by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 17, 2018 | Events
JOIN HANDS to protect our land, communities and the Appalachian Trail from the unnecessary and unwanted onslaught of natural gas pipelines. Saturday, September 22 -10:00 am to Noon Blue Ridge Parkway Humpback Rocks Visitor Center, Milepost 5.8 This event features the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 16, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
On August 15, Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) released a scathing report summarizing 17,000 comments filed with the State Water Control Board in advance of its August 21 scheduled meeting. As Blue Virginia detailed here, the report...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 16, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
Since before he took office in January, opponents of the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines, including a list of lawmakers and officials from his own party, have begged and cajoled Gov. Ralph Northam to get tougher on the contentious natural gas projects....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 4, 2018 | Pipelines
ROANOKE — A federal agency has ordered a stop to construction of the entire Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has run into repeated problems with erosion since it began its path through the Roanoke and New River valleys. In a letter to pipeline officials Friday, the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 3, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
by Jon Sokolow In a powerful statement published by Blue Virginia here for the first time, the Virginia State Chapter of the NAACP has called on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to halt all construction activity for both the Mountain Valley and...
