by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 30, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
Richard Walker, an Atlantic Coast Pipeline opponent, raises his hands as he and other pipeline opponents turn their backs on a Dec. 19 meeting of a Virginia air pollution panel, which delayed a vote on a key permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. (Steve Helber/AP)...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2018 | Eminant Domain, Pipelines
ROANOKE, Va – A lawsuit involving the Mountain Valley Pipeline may be headed to our nation’s highest court. Wednesday, Virginia landowners filed a reply arguing their case does have merit to be heard after non-decisions by lower courts. They want to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
Dominion and DEQ have introduced new material to be considered in the Air Permit decision process. Consequently, DEQ has opened another Public Comment period for us to review and respond to the new material by Jan 4, 2019. AIR POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD (APCB) PUBLIC...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 18, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Politics of energy
Costs to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are pegged at $7 billion. Partner Dominion Energy plans to charge captive electricity customers for the cost, regardless of whether the pipeline is needed. Image via the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Dominion Energy...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 17, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Press Releases, Regulatory Permit Process
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 17, 2018 Environmental justice, climate leaders across U.S. sign letter to Va. regulators against ACP compressor station in Union Hill Residents of Union Hill and their allies have garnered more...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 17, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board fails to uphold Environmental Justice; approves air permit for compressor station in a 4-0 vote on Tuesday, January 8. This massive, 54,000+ hp natural gas compressor station would be in the predominantly...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 15, 2018 | Newsletter
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by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 15, 2018 | Economic Impacts, Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
An editorial in The News Leader noted that Gov. Ralph Northam yet again short-circuited the Virginia regulatory review of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Shortcuts have already been taken in the enforcement of Virginia’s water quality statutes. Now there has been...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 10, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Spiritual Ecology
Buy Now Signs in Buckingham County protest Dominion’s proposed compressor station near the Union Hill community. Richmond Times-Dispatch | File 2017 By Mike Ellerbrock Ellerbrock is director of the Center for Economic Education at Virginia Tech, vicariate deacon for...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 10, 2018 | Economic Impacts
The SCC gave the utility 90 days to correct and refile an integrated resource plan based on PJM forecasts. Virginia utility regulators took the unprecedented action Friday of ordering Dominion Energy to totally redo a long-term energy plan it submitted for approval in...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 10, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Press Releases, Regulatory Permit Process
Residents of Union Hill today sent an open letter to the members of the State Air Pollution Control Board urging them to deny the proposed permit for a natural gas compressor station in this predominantly African-American community in rural Buckingham County, Va....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Chad Oba huddled on a narrow median strip, bundled against the falling snow. Passing cars honked at the sign she was holding, and behind her a crowd of fellow protesters chanted outside the local office of Dominion Energy as police stood watch. For...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
On November 16, 2018 the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Dominion Energy compiled a demographic and income profile for the area of Union Hill in Buckingham County, VA. The report came after the Virginia Air Pollution Board delayed an important vote on the air pollution...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
In this Thursday, Nov. 6, 2018 photo, Richard Walker, an Atlantic Coast Pipeline opponent, poses at a community center in Richmond, Va. Walker says his great-grandfather bought a 25 acre homestead in Union Hill, the site of a proposed compressor station, for $15 in...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Pipelines
Mountain Valley Pipeline RICHMOND, Va. – Attorney General Mark Herring and the Department of Environmental Quality has filed a lawsuit against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The filing sites repeated environmental violations in Craig, Franklin,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
MONTEREY — Following a court order today, Dec. 7, Dominion filed notice with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it is suspending construction along the entirety of the 600-mile route of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, except as needed for safety and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
John W. Laury and his wife Ruby Laura stand on the front porch of their home in Buckingham County. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline will connect to a compression station less than a mile away before passing close to their home. The contested pipeline runs from West...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 8, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Newsletter, Politics of energy
Thursday has arrived and it’s time for our weekly news dump. We heard we might get some snow this weekend to here’s something to keep you warm (or hot under the collar) until next week! Fourth Circuit is Asked to Stay ACP’s Fish and Wildlife Permit A motion to stay...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 7, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
Neighbors and families are pitted against one another over a natural gas pipeline project in Union Hill. In the end, who stands to lose? ‘Dominion thought they can just come in and we’d all roll over,’ said Ruby Laury, a cattle farmer with her...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 4, 2018 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 4, 2018 | Events, Press Releases
PRESS ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 4, 2018 CHARLOTTESVILLE – On Wednesday, December 5, 2018, Friends of Buckingham and a coalition of environmental organizations and community leaders will meet outside Charlottesville Dominion headquarters to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 1, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Pollution - Other Sources, Regulatory Permit Process
Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville is seriously concerned by Gov. Northam’s dismissal of VA State Air Pollution Control (air board) Board members who expressed concern re: environmental justice On Nov 15, VA Governor Ralph Northam replaced two members of the air board....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 30, 2018 | Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
Oldies but goodies: June 2017. Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC is proposing the approximately 600-mile unidirectional, open access Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to transport Marcellus-Utica shale gas from West Virginia, through Virginia, and ending in North Carolina....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 29, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
RICHMOND — Gov. Ralph Northam (D) promised to be a different kind of politician, one who would never lie and always operate aboveboard. But his interference in a controversial vote by air pollution regulators has caused some to question those claims. [A pragmatist in...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 28, 2018 | Events, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
Two dozen people braved a cold, windy afternoon to protest in front of Dominion’s office in Charlottesville. Sandy Hausman reports Alia Stewart-Silver and Hayden Shaw protest the removal of two Air Quality Board members who opposed the pipeline. Standing along one of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 27, 2018 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 24, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
The “Stand with Union Hill Concert of Prayer” will be an all night interfaith prayer vigil with music and story on the eve of the Dec. 10 Air Board Meeting & Vote on Union Hill Compressor Station *** when the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board may...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 23, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Politics of energy
On November 15, in a brazen power play that has been described as the “Thursday Night Massacre,” Governor Ralph Northam fired two members of the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board. The reason: six days earlier, these public servants publicly questioned whether a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
A state appellate court ruled Friday that National Fuel Gas Corp. could not use eminent domain proceedings to cross a Clarksville couple’s property for the Northern Access Pipeline from McKean County, Pa. to Western New York. The Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial...
