by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 13, 2023 | Solar
Thanks to Scott Flood for this article and keeping us alert to these pressing concerns. On November 14, 2022, EPA and DOJ announced 1.34 million in settlements to resolve Clean Water Act violations at four large-scale solar construction sites in Alabama, Idaho and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 7, 2023 | Gold Mining
In 2020, Buckingham County residents discovered that a mineral exploration company, Aston Bay, had been performing exploratory drilling for gold in their county since the previous year. Why had Aston Bay looked to Virginia as a prospecting location for new,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 16, 2022 | Gold Mining
On December 2, the State Agency Committee (SAC), tasked with the study of large-scale gold mining and the industry’s potential impacts on communities and their watersheds in Virginia released its public report “Potential Impacts of Gold Mining and Processing in the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 12, 2022 | Gold Mining
George Neall, current farmer, retired miner, has been serving us a steady stream of pertinent information on mining, which has been helpful in educating us to the history and facts of the business. George served on the State Agency Committee (SAC), tasked “to...
