by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 17, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
A member of a Virginia state permitting board who last week approved a highly controversial certification for Dominion’s planned Atlantic Coast pipeline has business ties to a company currently collaborating with Dominion on a related gas project, DeSmog...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 7, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
Opponents of a proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline compressor station in Buckingham County protested outside the General Assembly Building ahead of a State Air Pollution Control Board meeting. (Ned Oliver/Virginia Mercury – Dec. 19, 2018) Is an African-American...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 7, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
This post is a work in process. More comments will be added when time permits. Lakshmi Fjord, PhD, Steering Committee Friends of Buckingham Lakshmi Fjord Air Permit Comm 1-4-19 Stephen Metts, The New School, NY, GIS analyst for policy issues relating to energy...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 2, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Health & Safety, Regulatory Permit Process
Lies are best told when there is no paper trail. And no Freedom of Information Act. Somebody should explain that to David Paylor, the deeply unpopular Director of Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality. And someone should tell Dr. Ralph Northam that children’s...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 2, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Pipelines, Politics of energy
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline – Living on Borrowed Time?January 2, 2019 Forgive the imagery (and the irony), but the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) is increasingly looking like an old automobile in need of a valve job – it is leaking serious oil, suffers by comparison to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 31, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
This is what Environmental inJustice looks like. Read both reports. Lakshmi Fjord, PhD lays out the history of attack, omissions, falsifications surrounding the siting of the proposed ACP Buckingham compressor station [BCS] by local, state, federal agencies and...
