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 | 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...
