by Karuna | Sep 14, 2024 | Climate Change, Conservation, Endangered Species, Industrial Solar
A great podcast series from the “Voice of the Commonweath Counties” explains the threats facing us now. Part 1. Utility-Scale Solar – Legislative Outlook with Dean Lynch In the first of a 2-part episode, Joe Lerch sits down with VACo Executive Director...
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 | 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 Nelson Bailey | Dec 14, 2017 | Conservation, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Community activists and the energy company that plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are all trying to make sense of a state board’s conditional approval of a water quality permit for the project. It requires Dominion Energy provide final, more detailed...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2017 | Endangered Species, Health & Safety, Pipelines
You know how Gov. Terry McAuliffe has spent the past four years running around Virginia, repeating Dominion’s (laughable, false) talking points about how the Atlantic Coast Pipeline will be a “game changer” that will supposedly “spur economic growth in all parts of...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 5, 2017 | Conservation, Health & Safety
12/05/2017 Release from Friends of Nelson: Some 20 households in Horizons Village near Nellysford in Nelson County, Virginia, will be testing their groundwater quality to gather baseline data suitable for legal action if and when the construction of the Atlantic Coast...