by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 7, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources, Regulatory Permit Process, Video & Audio
This post has excellent coverage by 2 videos and Planning Commission report. A short video on the Colorado campaign to ban gold mining. And Mining 101 by Earthworks. Alexa Massey, for the Farmville Herald continues to do excellent reporting, making sense out of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 20, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources, Regulatory Permit Process
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is dead. So what’s next for Buckingham County? Gold, apparently. This month, plans by a Canadian gold mining company to extract the valuable commodity from thousands of acres of land in Buckingham surfaced, setting off a wave of alarm in a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 7, 2020 | Gold Mining, Regulatory Permit Process
Friends of Buckingham is alerting you to an urgent joint meeting with the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors and the Planning Commission. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, October 13 at 6 pm. Our county officials will be discussing changing an ordinance that...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 1, 2020 | Regulatory Permit Process
Despite the ACP’s uncertain future, its developers – Dominion and Duke Energy – have seized private property through eminent domain, felled swaths of forest, and spent $3.6 billion dollars! on this unnecessary boondoggle. The project is missing eight...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 28, 2020 | Events, FERC communications
Dominion has asked FERC for a 2 year extension on its expiring certificate to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Without the extension, No ACP construction could happen after October 13, 2020. Submit your comments to FERC by 5 pm on Thursday, July 2, 2020, asking FERC...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 28, 2020 | Natural Gas, Regulatory Permit Process
The times they are a changing… Thanks to years of cumulative persistence, resistance, insistence, networking, dedicated hard work, and the urgent climate crisis, our allies have accomplished what was not possible years ago. That said, the resistance to...
