by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 27, 2021 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines, Regulatory Permit Process
Four Stellar Women speak out against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Give a listen. OpEd from Karenna Gore regarding denial of MVP’s VA 401 permit, and the anniversary of the Clean Water Act: The common wealth of water In the final months of 2021, a decision...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 27, 2021 | Gold Mining
The Virginia Department of Energy (formerly known as the Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy) announces the gold mining study work groups. December 10 is the deadline to submit your name for consideration to be on the Department of Energy’s...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 8, 2021 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 21, 2021 | Climate Change, Gold Mining
Clean Energy, Not Dirty Mining Earthworks supports the transition to a 100% renewable energy economy—one that no longer depends on fossil fuels—an essential shift, if we are to avert catastrophic climate change. Solar, wind power and battery technologies are...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 21, 2021 | Environmental Justice, Gold Mining, Pipelines
When residents in Union Hill, Virginia, decried the pipeline as a form of environmental racism, the energy company insisted it wasn’t As fracked gas fields in West Virginia boomed over the past decade, energy companies jumped at the chance to build massive new...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Sep 21, 2021 | Gold Mining
September 9, 2021 The Biden administration’s move to invoke its Clean Water Act authority marks a major blow for the project, which is near the world’s largest sockeye salmon run. The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would restore protections...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 23, 2021 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
Catch up on updates about the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline and its Southgate extension with upcoming events, regulatory developments and the latest news that affects the construction of these projects and the communities fighting back against them. MVP Southgate...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 11, 2021 | Gold Mining
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine will conduct an independent study of the health, safety and environmental impacts of gold mining in Virginia as part of a state review that lawmakers agreed to undertake in 2021. Among the issues the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 6, 2021 | Gold Mining, Press Releases
Buckingham, VA – Groups from around the state expressed optimism today that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) has agreed to study the potential impacts of industrial gold mining on water resources, public health, and the environment...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 10, 2021 | Gold Mining
This article, published recently in Newsletter #132, is by Stephanie Rinaldi, directly impacted neighbor, FoB Gold Committee Co-Chair. In March, Governor Northam signed our bill (HB 2213) into law, and that law took effect July 1. Thank you to all those who...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2021 | Gold Mining
It should have been a time for the Buckingham County, Virginia, environmental community to celebrate and recuperate from a bruising but successful battle to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a compressor station planned for Union Hill. “We were elated and exhausted...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 9, 2021 | Pipelines
The Keystone XL pipeline project is officially terminated, the sponsor company announced Wednesday. Calgary-based TC Energy is pulling the plug on the project after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 2, 2021 | Gold Mining
Impact of thousands of wildcat gold miners shown as president Jair Bolsonaro is accused of trying to promote their illegal work Rare and disturbing aerial photographs have laid bare the devastation being inflicted on Brazil’s largest reserve for indigenous...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 20, 2021 | Environmental Justice, FERC communications, Press Releases
Our very own Montina!!! Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard Glick today announced the appointment of Montina Cole to serve as Senior Counsel for Environmental Justice and Equity, effective June 1, 2021. Cole, a seasoned executive and attorney...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | May 14, 2021 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure that the past disparate impacts to these...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 1, 2021 | Gold Mining, Press Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2021 CONTACT: Chad Oba: (434) 806-6332, chado108@icloud.com Buckingham, VA. Residents living near the site of gold exploratory drilling are feeling some reprieve from the pressures of the prospects of large-scale surface gold...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 1, 2021 | Events, Gold Mining
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1, 2021 CONTACT: Chad Oba: (434) 806-6332, chado108@icloud.com Buckingham, VA. Residents living near the site of gold exploratory drilling are feeling some reprieve from the pressures of the prospects of large-scale surface gold mining in...
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by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 22, 2021 | Gold Mining
Lawmakers agree to gold mining study but strip out temporary ban Legislation requiring Virginia to study gold mining and its effects on health and the environment is headed to the governor, but without an earlier provision that would have banned any large-scale gold...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 20, 2021 | Eminant Domain, For Landowners, Pipelines, Politics of energy
The Farmville Herald editor thinks the $3.5 that Dominion is giving to Buckingham is the right thing to do, that it is benevolent. Huh. Why would you have to say that – is there doubt that it is benevolent? See the article of Wednesday February 17. We think it...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 17, 2021 | Gold Mining
Community advocacy group commends passage of gold mining legislation by Senate FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 17, 2021 Buckingham, VA – The passage of House Bill 2213 by the Virginia State Senate on Tuesday was commended by Friends of Buckingham, a community...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 13, 2021 | Gold Mining
Democratic senators on a powerful committee said no to a House proposal that would put a temporary moratorium on gold mining, opting to allow for study of whether it’s environmentally safe. The decision by senators to oppose the moratorium surprised one of the state’s...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 13, 2021 | Gold Mining
This article is re-posted with commentary (in red), which makes it a whole lot more interesting 2-15-21. South Carolina regulators have fined a large gold mine $100,000 for breaking environmental rules, marking the third time in the past year the operation north of...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 12, 2021 | Environmental Justice
The community of Brown Grove in Hanover County is knitted together by a single ancestor, a freedwoman named Caroline Morris, who helped found the community during the Reconstruction. Now, all these years later, Caroline’s descendants are still battling injustices....
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 7, 2021 | Newsletter
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 6, 2021 | Racial Social Justice
There is an Elephant in the civic living room of Charlottesville Virginia, says Honor-Slave-Block Advocacy Group. This is article is written by Freeman Allan, HSB/Slave Museum Secretary; Author; Researcher; Iconologist; Social Justice Activist This month marks twenty...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 6, 2021 | Environmental Justice
It’s been a busy several years in usually quiet Buckingham County. In Virginia’s rural and mostly Black community of Union Hill, the people who—not so long ago—staved off a massive natural gas pipeline’s polluting compressor station proposed on the same land their...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 5, 2021 | Gold Mining
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 5, 2021 Buckingham, VA – Friends of Buckingham, a community advocacy group known for its work to protect Buckingham County and the community of Union Hill from the now-canceled Atlantic Coast pipeline, applauds the passing of...
