by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 17, 2023 | Gold Mining
Protect our Water! Thanks to Press Pause Coalition, for writing House Bill 1722 and finding Delegate Simonds to patron it. Now it’s up to us to get the comments to the General Assembly. Use this link to find the bill. Click on view comments. See what others have...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 14, 2023 | Gold Mining
Brian Carlton, Editor of the Farmville Herald, has been following the gold mining issue closely. In 2 articles last week, he follows the formation of the gold mining committee by the Buckingham Board of Supervisors. The committee was approved at the 12-12-2022 Board...
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,...
