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Newsletter #161: Film “Not on our Land”; Metallic mining updates; MVP victories; How wealth rules

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 8, 2023 | Gold Mining, Newsletter

Cyanide… a discussion on ways to ban its use, and thus halt large scale metallic mining

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 7, 2023 | Gold Mining

The effort at the state level to ban cyanide use in mining was at first very well received. But partisan actions killed it in committee, halting any further possibilities in the 2023 General Assembly to protect us from potential metallic mining. We recently discovered...

FoB Website Ban Gold Mining Page Updates/ Timeline in Brief – starting June 2020

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 3, 2023 | Gold Mining

Timeline continued from the Gold Mining Page: Updates/Timeline in Briefhttps://www.friendsofbuckinghamva.org/ban-gold-mining/#Updates May 2023 Opportunities for comment: Supervisor meeting M May 8, 6 pm & Planning Commission M May 22, 5 pm. Sign up to comment...

Newsletter #160: Work session on banning metallic mining 3/20; County events; Industrial solar

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 18, 2023 | Newsletter

Industrial solar fields: Big is Bad, Small is Beautiful

by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 18, 2023 | Solar

Thanks to Scott Flood for the updates around the state on how industrial solar is going – not so well. Photo: Spotsylvania industrial solar field Mecklenburg County Board denies Antler’s Road solar project appeal...
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