by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 25, 2023 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 25, 2023 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 17, 2023 | Gold Mining
Protect our Water! Thanks to Press Pause Coalition, for writing House Bill 1722 and finding Delegate Simonds to patron it. Now it’s up to us to get the comments to the General Assembly. Use this link to find the bill. Click on view comments. See what others have...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 14, 2023 | Gold Mining
Brian Carlton, Editor of the Farmville Herald, has been following the gold mining issue closely. In 2 articles last week, he follows the formation of the gold mining committee by the Buckingham Board of Supervisors. The committee was approved at the 12-12-2022 Board...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 13, 2023 | Solar
Thanks to Scott Flood for this article and keeping us alert to these pressing concerns. On November 14, 2022, EPA and DOJ announced 1.34 million in settlements to resolve Clean Water Act violations at four large-scale solar construction sites in Alabama, Idaho and...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 7, 2023 | Gold Mining
In 2020, Buckingham County residents discovered that a mineral exploration company, Aston Bay, had been performing exploratory drilling for gold in their county since the previous year. Why had Aston Bay looked to Virginia as a prospecting location for new,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 5, 2023 | Gold Mining, Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 16, 2022 | Gold Mining
On December 2, the State Agency Committee (SAC), tasked with the study of large-scale gold mining and the industry’s potential impacts on communities and their watersheds in Virginia released its public report “Potential Impacts of Gold Mining and Processing in the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 12, 2022 | Gold Mining
George Neall, current farmer, retired miner, has been serving us a steady stream of pertinent information on mining, which has been helpful in educating us to the history and facts of the business. George served on the State Agency Committee (SAC), tasked “to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 11, 2022 | Gold Mining
Some members of the Buckingham County community who helped fight the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are being forced to take on industrial metals mining Residents of rural Virginia communities now recognized internationally for winning an unprecedented battle against the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 10, 2022 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 8, 2022 | Gold Mining
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 7, 2022 State Committee Report Warns of Harmful Impacts from Large-Scale Gold Mining Advocates from across Virginia react to report detailing potential threats to water, land, health CONTACT Chad Oba, President, Friends of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 19, 2022 | Gold Mining
Meaningful state protections are looking increasingly doubtful. See the articles below. First up, local protections could to be the answer to stopping metallic mining at our doorstep. Local Protections See 3 articles in the Farmville Herald. And watch Ben...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 14, 2022 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 10, 2022 | Gold Mining
Brian Carlton, Editor of the Farmville Harald covers the release of the report on the study of the impacts of gold mining in Virginia, by the National Academies of Sciences. Included are 2 good quotes from Kenda Hanuman, FoB representative to the State Agency...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 9, 2022 | Gold Mining
With exploration for gold continuing in Buckingham County, a report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found Virginia’s current system of regulating gold mining “is not adequate to address the potential impacts” of commercial extraction....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 3, 2022 | Gold Mining
There are 447 documented abandoned gold mines in Virginia, and an estimated 500 undocumented, and they are all loaded with mercury, some with cyanide, arsenic, and other toxic materials. Many have numerous gaping and dangerous open shafts. There are some...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 2, 2022 | Gold Mining
Virginia was one of the first major gold-producing states in the U.S., but it has seen only limited and intermittent gold mining activity in the last 70 years. Recent increase in gold prices and other factors have brought renewed attention to mining gold at both new...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 31, 2022 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 20, 2022 | Gold Mining
Friends of Buckingham (FOB), in partnership with the Virginia Community Rights Network (VACRN) have lead a steady drive to keep a spotlight on the gold mining issue, by encouraging Buckingham residents to submit letters to the editor (LTE). Many of the LTEs have been...
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 | Oct 17, 2022 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 9, 2022 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Oct 1, 2022 | Gold Mining, Regulatory Permit Process
Wow! Buckingham Board of Supervisors can do the right thing and protect the county from industrial gold mining! #Ourpointexactly So sayeth Joe Lerch, the director of local government policy for the Virginia Association of Counties at the meeting of the State Agency...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 12, 2022 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 12, 2022 | Gold Mining
We continue to insist the Buckingham supervisors adopt the rights-based freedom from toxic trespass ordinance now! Don’t rely on the state to ban new gold mining! Check out all the links below. Inform yourself and speak up to protect our water, air, land, our...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 7, 2022 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 6, 2022 | Gold Mining
How do you effectively monitor a Virginia gold mining operation without necessary resources or staff? A question awaiting an answer in Buckingham and other localities. This problem is… part of the regulation and enforcement falls to local governments…...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 27, 2022 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 22, 2022 | Newsletter
