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 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 | Aug 16, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
Today, Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) have released a report that summarizes and provides important details from thousands of comments the public submitted during May and June. The State Water Control Board ordered the comment...
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....
