by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2021 | Gold Mining
It should have been a time for the Buckingham County, Virginia, environmental community to celebrate and recuperate from a bruising but successful battle to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a compressor station planned for Union Hill. “We were elated and exhausted...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 9, 2021 | Pipelines
The Keystone XL pipeline project is officially terminated, the sponsor company announced Wednesday. Calgary-based TC Energy is pulling the plug on the project after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 2, 2021 | Gold Mining
Impact of thousands of wildcat gold miners shown as president Jair Bolsonaro is accused of trying to promote their illegal work Rare and disturbing aerial photographs have laid bare the devastation being inflicted on Brazil’s largest reserve for indigenous...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 20, 2021 | Environmental Justice, FERC communications, Press Releases
Our very own Montina!!! Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard Glick today announced the appointment of Montina Cole to serve as Senior Counsel for Environmental Justice and Equity, effective June 1, 2021. Cole, a seasoned executive and attorney...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 14, 2021 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure that the past disparate impacts to these...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 1, 2021 | Gold Mining, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2021 CONTACT: Chad Oba: (434) 806-6332, chado108@icloud.com Buckingham, VA. Residents living near the site of gold exploratory drilling are feeling some reprieve from the pressures of the prospects of large-scale surface gold...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 1, 2021 | Events, Gold Mining
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2021 CONTACT: Chad Oba: (434) 806-6332, chado108@icloud.com Buckingham, VA. Residents living near the site of gold exploratory drilling are feeling some reprieve from the pressures of the prospects of large-scale surface gold mining in...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 27, 2021 | Newsletter
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by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 22, 2021 | Gold Mining
Lawmakers agree to gold mining study but strip out temporary ban Legislation requiring Virginia to study gold mining and its effects on health and the environment is headed to the governor, but without an earlier provision that would have banned any large-scale gold...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2021 | Eminant Domain, For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
The Farmville Herald editor thinks the $3.5 that Dominion is giving to Buckingham is the right thing to do, that it is benevolent. Huh. Why would you have to say that – is there doubt that it is benevolent? See the article of Wednesday February 17. We think it...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 17, 2021 | Gold Mining
Community advocacy group commends passage of gold mining legislation by Senate FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17, 2021 Buckingham, VA – The passage of House Bill 2213 by the Virginia State Senate on Tuesday was commended by Friends of Buckingham, a community...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 13, 2021 | Gold Mining
Democratic senators on a powerful committee said no to a House proposal that would put a temporary moratorium on gold mining, opting to allow for study of whether it’s environmentally safe. The decision by senators to oppose the moratorium surprised one of the state’s...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 13, 2021 | Gold Mining
This article is re-posted with commentary (in red), which makes it a whole lot more interesting 2-15-21. South Carolina regulators have fined a large gold mine $100,000 for breaking environmental rules, marking the third time in the past year the operation north of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 12, 2021 | Environmental Justice
The community of Brown Grove in Hanover County is knitted together by a single ancestor, a freedwoman named Caroline Morris, who helped found the community during the Reconstruction. Now, all these years later, Caroline’s descendants are still battling injustices....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 7, 2021 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 6, 2021 | Racial Social Justice
There is an Elephant in the civic living room of Charlottesville Virginia, says Honor-Slave-Block Advocacy Group. This is article is written by Freeman Allan, HSB/Slave Museum Secretary; Author; Researcher; Iconologist; Social Justice Activist This month marks twenty...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 6, 2021 | Environmental Justice
It’s been a busy several years in usually quiet Buckingham County. In Virginia’s rural and mostly Black community of Union Hill, the people who—not so long ago—staved off a massive natural gas pipeline’s polluting compressor station proposed on the same land their...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 5, 2021 | Gold Mining
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2021 Buckingham, VA – Friends of Buckingham, a community advocacy group known for its work to protect Buckingham County and the community of Union Hill from the now-canceled Atlantic Coast pipeline, applauds the passing of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 25, 2021 | Newsletter
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by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 13, 2021 | Gold Mining
Contact your Delegate and urge them to support HB2213 – Delegate Guzman’s gold mining-related legislation Delegate Elizabeth Guzman is carrying a bill, HB2213, to ensure that the impacts of commercial gold mining to air, water, and public health are studied...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 9, 2021 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 6, 2021 | Gold Mining
I am a retired mining engineer (B.S.; M.S.; P.E.) living on a small farm in Rockingham County Virginia. I got out of the mining industry in 1985 for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the environmental damage mining causes. I have worked in underground...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 4, 2021 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 3, 2021 | Gold Mining, Regulatory Permit Process
Public Hearing on Monday, January 11 at 6 pm. Please submit comments before noon, the day of meeting, or they will not be delivered. Talking points and resources follow these instructions. Please direct comments to the Public Hearing on January 11 on commercial...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 2, 2021 | Gold Mining, Regulatory Permit Process
Please join us to learn about the threat of modern gold mining in Buckingham, the gold-pyrite belt in Virginia and beyond. Find out how this affects you, your drinking water and how you can take action to stop this assault on our inalienable rights to clean water,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 30, 2020 | Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Mountain Valley Pipeline faces political, regulatory changes in 2021 The history of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, from the time it was first proposed to its projected completion, will soon span the terms of three U.S. presidents. So what impact will the incoming...
