by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 29, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
The Transco Pipeline cuts through the forests of Buckingham County and crosses Route 56 in the foreground. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would pass through Buckingham County and connect to this pipeline. A compressor station would be built at this intersection. (Timothy...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 18, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Spiritual Ecology
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — Pastor Paul was nursing a sore throat, but as he preached on a sleepy Sunday morning in his little country church, he felt a rising sense of urgency. “Turning points!” the Rev. Paul Wilson shouted. Like the biblical Paul on the road to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 17, 2018 | Environmental Justice
Virginia- In response to a letter from his own advisory committee calling for a halt to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline due in part to its disproportional impact on poor and minority communities, the assistant for Governor Northam’s press secretary, Marissa Astor, told...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 4, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Press Releases
Press Release to Farmville Herald For immediate release: June 4, 2018 Contact: Heidi Dhivya Berthoud 434-979-9732 friendsofbuckinghamcountyva@gmail.com Home Friends of Buckingham co-sponsored a tour of the Union Hill proposed compressor station site and the Yogaville...
by Nelson Bailey | Feb 1, 2018 | For Landowners, Fossil Fuels
With just a few hours remaining until Thursday, the day that Mountain Valley Pipeline had hoped to start work on a natural gas pipeline through Southwest Virginia, a judge put a pause to those plans. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Dillon came...
