by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 4, 2019 | Conservation, Sustainability
The Rights of Nature movement makes gains world wide and right here in Buckingham County, Virginia. Below are 2 exciting articles about the latest river, the Klamath in California, to gain the protective rights of personhood, like humans and corporations enjoy. Thomas...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 28, 2019 | Environmental Justice, FERC communications
Letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) dated November 8, 2014, by Dhyani Simonini, includes historical information about the Native Peoples who thrived along the James River for thousands of years before the coming of the Europeans. FERC...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 14, 2019 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 14, 2019 | Events
As part of the Global Climate Strike week of action, we will be joining with residents and landowners across WV, VA, and NC who are impacted by the proposed Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked gas pipelines and other climate-impacting threats. We have a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 14, 2019 | Events
Water protectors from three states will gather on Bent Mountain for workshops, a potluck supper, a SUN SiNG & Local Friends Concert, an Earth Grief Ceremony, Strategy Campfires and optional overnight camping near the path of the Mountain Valley fracked gas...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 14, 2019 | Climate Change, Events
Greta Thunberg, 16 year old Swedish student, started striking every Friday from school to protest the inaction of the adults to acknowledge and take charge of the #ClimateCrisis. She recently sailed across the Atlantic on a solar powered racing sail boat to attend to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 14, 2019 | Events
Join your friends and neighbors at the Fourth Annual Hands Across the Appalachian Trail! Be part of this special weekend of events across the state on Saturday, September 28 and Sunday, September 29, as we work to protect our communities, water, air, land and natural...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 13, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events
On September 7, a town hall was convened in Buckingham County. An invitation was sent out to our elected representatives. Over 120 people attended this event. See 6 minute video below and on the home page “Union Hill Residents…” The town hall was...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 3, 2019 | Events
On May 7 there was a buzz in the air about a woman with a pair of horses walking through the center of Emporia. Sarah Murphy, of Afton, was nearly a month into her journey to Robeson County, N.C. in protest of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline before returning to her Afton...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 24, 2019 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 24, 2019 | Events
You are invited to join Friends of Buckingham and the Union Hill community, along with allies across Virginia and to support communities leading the fight to protect our health, environment, and future against reckless corporate polluters for a special event and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 10, 2019 | Regulatory Permit Process
Why Is the Forest Service Trying to Evade the Public? The Trump administration is attempting to eliminate public voice from the management of national forests. We must speak up. Read the August 7, 2019, NY Times article, by Sam Evans, the national forests and parks...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 4, 2019 | Events
Attorney Kai Memmer, a volunteer for the Southwest Virginia Chapter of the National Lawyer’s Guild, will train attendees to become Legal Observers. Legal Observers are needed immediately in the Elliston VA area and other areas along the Mountain Valley Pipeline...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 27, 2019 | Events
What will you do? Protection #1, “Get Up & Go” is one of 7 each week. Lots you can do from where you are in Protections 2-7. link to share: 7 Protections July 26-August 4 1. GET UP AND GO! A few (of many) good places to show up this week. Sunday, July 28:...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 26, 2019 | Regulatory Permit Process
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has just thrown out another federal permit for Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In a crushing and unanimous 50-page decision, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit vacated the Fish and Wildlife Service Biological...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 26, 2019 | Endangered Species, Regulatory Permit Process
The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals announced today, Friday July 26, 2019, its decision to turn down the latest U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This is a decided victory for those of us fighting this unneeded project. The...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 17, 2019 | Climate Change, Events
Join us for an exploration of the reality of the impacts, solutions and what’s possible for us to do. Swami Dayananda & Mindy are trained Climate Reality Leaders, part of a group of thousands of volunteers in countries around the globe who have been personally...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 16, 2019 | Economic Impacts, FERC communications, Politics of energy
Construction crews work on an Atlantic Coast pipeline metering station in North Carolina. Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC A collection of 18 Virginia state lawmakers pressed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today to stop the progress of the Atlantic Coast pipeline...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 14, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Health & Safety
Photo of the James River by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud 2009 Introduction We offer our findings to other beleaguered communities struggling to keep up while defending themselves against the ravages of any polluting industry. In a sane world, we would have only clean green...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 8, 2019 | Fossil Fuels, Solar
Yogaville leaders hope their investments in solar power send a message about opposing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Elizabeth McGowan July 8, 2019 Elizabeth McGowan / Energy News Network Jeeva Abbate, right, tells John Laury about the solar system that powers...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 5, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Solar
A broken “no pipeline” sign rests outside a home in Union Hill, where residents are divided over Dominion Energy’s plan to build a compressor station for the utility’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline. A weeklong boot camp in Union Hill, Virginia,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 17, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
Friends of Buckingham, et al. v. State Air Pollution Control Board, et al., is a case pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit involving the potential harms facing Union Hill, an African American community in Buckingham County, from the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 13, 2019 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 30, 2019 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 30, 2019 | Regulatory Permit Process
Take Action! Dominion Not Allowed to Cross Appalachian Trail on U.S. Forest Service Lands In December 2018, a federal court rejected a critical permit that would allow Dominion’s controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to cross the Appalachian Trail (AT) and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 19, 2019 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 14, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines, Spiritual Ecology
The Virginia State Conference NAACP once again has reaffirmed its longstanding opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In a court brief filed on April 12, the state NAACP has urged a federal appeals court in Washington to revoke the key federal permit for the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 6, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Fracking
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has just released its Advisory Opinion, recommending a worldwide ban on hydraulic fracturing, the extreme oil and gas extraction technique known as ‘fracking.’ The materials, and infrastructure of fracking inherently and necessarily...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Politics of energy
Friends of Buckingham extends a warm and grateful thank you to Reverend Barber, Al Gore and Karenna Gore for accepting our ernest and urgent invitation to come to Union HIll, to draw and amplify ever widening attention to the injustices forced on the Union Hill...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events
Former vice president Al Gore and the Rev. William Barber II, left, talk with local resident Ella Rose in front of her home in Union Hill, Va. (Steve Helber/AP) BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — The little front porch seemed like a pulpit as the Rev. William Barber II outlined...
