by Karuna | Jul 28, 2025 | Health & Safety, News, Pollution - Other Sources
Dear Cumberland County Supervisors, Friends of Buckingham strongly urges you to deny the request to construct the Green Ridge Landfill in Cumberland County. While the proposed site is within your borders, the impacts will stretch far beyond affecting the environment,...
by Karuna | Apr 11, 2025 | Pollution - Other Sources, Uncategorized
Jaimi McPeek – Hi everyone! Many of you know me as your local environmental scientist, but I’m also working on something much bigger—I am the Legislative Director for the VA Bottle Bill, a proposed recycling refund program. Here’s how it works: When you buy a...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 17, 2022 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources
Brian Carlton, the new editor at the Farmville Herald, has been doing great coverage of the gold mining issue in Buckingham. This article covers the draft report that is being prepared by the State Agency Committee on the study of the impacts of industrial gold mining...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 1, 2022 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources
A tiny Alaska town is split over a goldmine. At stake is a way of life In Haines, where the salmon once leaped under snow-capped mountains, a massive mining project promises well-paid jobs – and threatens a fragile ecosystem by Dominic Rushe in Haines, Alaska, for The...
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 | Nov 7, 2020 | Gold Mining, Pollution - Other Sources
Tuesday, November 10 at 6 pm. Our County officials will be discussing changing an ordinance that would allow a Canadian gold mining company to drill in an A-1 agriculturally zoned part of the county. Only the first 20 people will be admitted to the auditorium. You can...
