by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 14, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines
View short video on Youtube A wonderful new video from independent news outlet Grist. Eastern North Carolina is home to the environmental justice movement – and also to some of the state’s biggest threats to human and environmental health, the latest being 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 | Jan 31, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines, Politics of energy
Members of the Lumbee tribe and other opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline marched through Pembroke in Robeson County in late 2016. The ACP would traverse through Native American lands along its route, including in Robeson County. (File photo: Lisa Sorg) [Editor’s...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 13, 2019 | Pipelines, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
A lobbyist for the natural gas industry told West Virginia legislators Tuesday that progress on a pipeline that stretches through the Mountain State was slowed because of “rogue environmental groups” challenging the project in the federal court system. In reality,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 13, 2019 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Credit: FracTracker Alliance Oil and gas pipelines in the US are lacking adequate regulation, inspection, and enforcement. As one example, our colleagues at the FracTracker analysis recently published an alarming analysis of fossil fuel pipeline incidents from...
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...