by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 2, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Politics of energy
Ken Cuccinelli, a Republican, served as Virginia’s attorney general from 2010 to 2014. In Shipman, Va., a family that has held its homestead for generations, tending graves of ancestors and buildings erected by great-great grandfathers, struggles to understand why it...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events, Uncategorized
Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC [ACP] has applied for a special use permit [SUP] for a proposed 53,000 + hp compressor station in an agricultural A-1 zone in the Woods Corner/Union Hill neighborhood on Rt 56, adjacent to the Transco pipeline. The Board of Supervisors will...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 22, 2016 | Compressor Stations
JORDAN MILES | HERALD Permit opponent Dr. Walter Saxon, left, speaks to planners as Dominion’s Emmett Toms reviews the proposed conditions on the permit. Planners in Buckingham County have recommended approval of a special use permit allowing Atlantic Coast Pipeline...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 1, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
Nearly 30 people blasted and condemned a proposed 53,515 horsepower (hp) compressor station during a public hearing before the Buckingham County Planning Commission Monday night. The speakers came after the commission agreed that it would receive public comment...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
Buckingham County faces the irony of being the only Virginia county already targeted for geometrically higher climate change and environmental health impacts to a front-line community from the sole 68 acre industrial complex compressor station, that is also targeted...
