by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 17, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board fails to uphold Environmental Justice; approves air permit for compressor station in a 4-0 vote on Tuesday, January 8. This massive, 54,000+ hp natural gas compressor station would be in the predominantly...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
In this Thursday, Nov. 6, 2018 photo, Richard Walker, an Atlantic Coast Pipeline opponent, poses at a community center in Richmond, Va. Walker says his great-grandfather bought a 25 acre homestead in Union Hill, the site of a proposed compressor station, for $15 in...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 29, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
RICHMOND — Gov. Ralph Northam (D) promised to be a different kind of politician, one who would never lie and always operate aboveboard. But his interference in a controversial vote by air pollution regulators has caused some to question those claims. [A pragmatist in...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 24, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
The “Stand with Union Hill Concert of Prayer” will be an all night interfaith prayer vigil with music and story on the eve of the Dec. 10 Air Board Meeting & Vote on Union Hill Compressor Station *** when the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board may...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 23, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Politics of energy
On November 15, in a brazen power play that has been described as the “Thursday Night Massacre,” Governor Ralph Northam fired two members of the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board. The reason: six days earlier, these public servants publicly questioned whether a...
