by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Politics of energy
When Harrison County Farm Bureau members Carol Teter and John Lovejoy bought their 160-acre farm in eastern Ohio in 2001, they were looking for a quiet place to raise a few animals and live out the second half of their lives. What the couple didn’t anticipate...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Politics of energy
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine is facing pressure from landowners in his home state of Virginia to stand against the planned Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would carry fracked gas from Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to mid-Atlantic...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Compressor Stations
Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC has filed a special use permit with the Buckingham County Planning and Zoning Office seeking approval to construct an over 53,000 horse powered natural gas-fired compressor station the firm says is essential to operation of its proposed...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 2, 2016 | Fossil Fuels
By Timothy Cama – 07/20/16 12:04 PM EDT From The Hill Enbridge Inc. has agreed to a $177 million settlement with the federal government to resolve charges related to a pair of oil pipeline spills in 2010 in Michigan and Illinois. The agreement includes a $62...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice
Buckingham County faces the irony of being the only Virginia county already targeted for geometrically higher climate change and environmental health impacts to a front-line community from the sole 68 acre industrial complex compressor station, that is also targeted...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Compressor Stations, Events
Wednesday July 13, 7 pm. Union Hill Baptist Church, 1496 Union Hill Road, (Rt. 663), Buckingham 23921. Come to join with friends and neighbors to meet and greet fellow landowners and concerned citizens. Learn how ordinary folks worked together to stop the Keystone XL...
