by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 17, 2021 | Gold Mining
Community advocacy group commends passage of gold mining legislation by Senate FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17, 2021 Buckingham, VA – The passage of House Bill 2213 by the Virginia State Senate on Tuesday was commended by Friends of Buckingham, a community...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 13, 2021 | Gold Mining
Democratic senators on a powerful committee said no to a House proposal that would put a temporary moratorium on gold mining, opting to allow for study of whether it’s environmentally safe. The decision by senators to oppose the moratorium surprised one of the state’s...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 13, 2021 | Gold Mining
This article is re-posted with commentary (in red), which makes it a whole lot more interesting 2-15-21. South Carolina regulators have fined a large gold mine $100,000 for breaking environmental rules, marking the third time in the past year the operation north of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 12, 2021 | Environmental Justice
The community of Brown Grove in Hanover County is knitted together by a single ancestor, a freedwoman named Caroline Morris, who helped found the community during the Reconstruction. Now, all these years later, Caroline’s descendants are still battling injustices....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 7, 2021 | Newsletter
