by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 3, 2018 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 29, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Health & Safety
The following press release is from the Global Justice Ecology Project, following today’s vote by Gov. Northam’s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice (ACEJ) to make its letter, calling for a moratorium on further construction of the fracked-gas Atlantic Coast...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 29, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
The Transco Pipeline cuts through the forests of Buckingham County and crosses Route 56 in the foreground. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would pass through Buckingham County and connect to this pipeline. A compressor station would be built at this intersection. (Timothy...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 18, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Spiritual Ecology
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — Pastor Paul was nursing a sore throat, but as he preached on a sleepy Sunday morning in his little country church, he felt a rising sense of urgency. “Turning points!” the Rev. Paul Wilson shouted. Like the biblical Paul on the road to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 17, 2018 | Events, Press Releases, Spiritual Ecology
RICHMOND, Virginia – In light of recent setbacks for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light released a report today entitled Our Air, Our Lives: Religious Fact-Finding Delegation to Buckingham County. The report recommends urgent action,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 17, 2018 | Press Releases, Regulatory Permit Process
Press Release: Leaders’ questions highlight community concerns about proposed compressor station’s impact on air quality and health Buckingham, Virginia – On August 16, 2018, members of the historic Union Hill and Buckingham communities filled the Buckingham...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 17, 2018 | Events
JOIN HANDS to protect our land, communities and the Appalachian Trail from the unnecessary and unwanted onslaught of natural gas pipelines. Saturday, September 22 -10:00 am to Noon Blue Ridge Parkway Humpback Rocks Visitor Center, Milepost 5.8 This event features the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 17, 2018 | Environmental Justice
Virginia- In response to a letter from his own advisory committee calling for a halt to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline due in part to its disproportional impact on poor and minority communities, the assistant for Governor Northam’s press secretary, Marissa Astor, told...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 16, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
Today, Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) have released a report that summarizes and provides important details from thousands of comments the public submitted during May and June. The State Water Control Board ordered the comment...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 16, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
On August 15, Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) released a scathing report summarizing 17,000 comments filed with the State Water Control Board in advance of its August 21 scheduled meeting. As Blue Virginia detailed here, the report...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 16, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
Since before he took office in January, opponents of the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines, including a list of lawmakers and officials from his own party, have begged and cajoled Gov. Ralph Northam to get tougher on the contentious natural gas projects....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 15, 2018 | Events, Regulatory Permit Process
Come join us for help in writing your personalized comments about the air permit for the proposed Buckingham compressor station. The comment period ends Tuesday, September 11 with the public hearing which will be at the Buckingham Middle School. Yogaville will host...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 15, 2018 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 15, 2018 | Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
WASHINGTON — Environmental groups pointed to a recent filing to the South Carolina Public Service Commission as evidence in their request for rehearing on a key Federal Energy Regulatory Commission-issued certificate for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In the July 16...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 15, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
Blog by Bobby Whitescarver Aug 5, 2018 The Virginia State Water Control Board must deny 401 certification for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline(ACP). It should have denied 401 certification for the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Building these fracked gas pipelines through...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 15, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
Why does significant news – bad or good – regarding the Mountain Valley Pipeline and/or Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) always seem to come on Friday evenings? In this case, it’s good news regarding the ACP, albeit not the ultimate good news of this idiotic/misbegotten...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 5, 2018 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 4, 2018 | Politics of energy
Pastor Paul Wilson, of Union Hill and Union Grove Baptist churches in Buckingham County, has been among the most outspoken opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which is proposing to build a compressor station in the county. Photo by Robert Zullo, Virginia...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 4, 2018 | Pipelines
ROANOKE — A federal agency has ordered a stop to construction of the entire Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has run into repeated problems with erosion since it began its path through the Roanoke and New River valleys. In a letter to pipeline officials Friday, the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 4, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality [DEQ] has a web page now up with further information about the air permitting process. That information is copied below or you can go here:...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 3, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
by Jon Sokolow In a powerful statement published by Blue Virginia here for the first time, the Virginia State Chapter of the NAACP has called on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to halt all construction activity for both the Mountain Valley and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 1, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
PERMIT NAME: Minor Source Construction Permit issued under the authority of the Air Pollution Control Board PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: August 8, 2018 to September 11, 2018 INFORMATION BRIEFING: Peter Francisco Auditorium in the Buckingham County Administration Building...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 21, 2018 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 21, 2018 | Newsletter
Hi, Everybody! A little early this week, as I have to catch a flight…but we didn’t want to leave you hanging! Here’s what’s been happening. Virginia Approval of ACP Challenged in Federal Court The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond has been asked to stay...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 21, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Events, Regulatory Permit Process
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has been reviewing the ACP air modeling report, readying for the proposed Buckingham compressor station air permitting process. Friends of Buckingham and friends have accessed the documents and are reviewing them, readying...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 20, 2018 | Events, Regulatory Permit Process
Thank you Irene Leech for this article! We are nearing the end of the open comment period (July 25) for FERC’s request for comments on the current process it uses to make decisions about natural gas pipelines. There are currently a number of comments on file with a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 20, 2018 | Events, Politics of energy, Renewables
Right now the Northam administration is developing its Virginia Energy Plan, a roadmap for the commonwealth’s energy policy over the next decade. We need to ensure Virginia’s economy is built on energy efficiency, solar power and smart storage solutions instead...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 20, 2018 | Events, Regulatory Permit Process
This Sunday July 22, 1-3 pm Potluck 2-3 pm Oh do come. This Sunday, July 22 Circle of Protection gives Virginians another fine moment to stand with Union Hill as this historic community prepares to fight for their very breath against the proposed Atlantic Coast...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 4, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Press Releases
Press Release to Farmville Herald For immediate release: June 4, 2018 Contact: Heidi Dhivya Berthoud 434-979-9732 friendsofbuckinghamcountyva@gmail.com https://www.friendsofbuckinghamva.org/ Friends of Buckingham co-sponsored a tour of the Union Hill proposed...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 5, 2018 | Newsletter
