by Nelson Bailey | Nov 11, 2016 | For Landowners, Pipelines
In a scene resembling a church service, opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline gathered under a tent Sunday at the Rockfish Valley Community Center in Nelson County as several spoke of how the controversial project personally affects them. Among “testifiers,” as...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2016 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process, Uncategorized
Posted: Monday, October 31, 2016 12:00 am By Duncan Adams duncan.adams@roanoke.com 981-3324 The “scoping meetings” in May 2015 included a few boisterous moments. That was true when a project manager for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission declared unequivocally...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 6, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy, Uncategorized
Founder and director Mike Tidwell of Chesapeake Climate Action Network had this to say. Yesterday, I had the honor of being arrested side-by-side with U.S. Army veteran Russell Chisholm of Newport, Virginia, taking a stand to stop fracked-gas pipelines and demand true...
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...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 18, 2016 | Regulatory Permit Process
Bath County Supervisors voted unanimously to file their letter of opposition to the ACP with FERC. Read more here: ABRA Press Release – Unanimous vote for pipeline opposition in Bath – 5-17-16 Lewis Freeman, Chair/Executive Director of ABRA, issued this...
