The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board fails to uphold Environmental Justice; approves air permit for compressor station in a 4-0 vote on Tuesday, January 8.
This massive, 54,000+ hp natural gas compressor station would be in the predominantly African-American community of Union Hill, Va., as part of the proposed and highly controversial Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Friends of Buckingham and many others vigorously refute the Department of Environmental Quality’s misleading characterization that Union Hill is not an environmental justice community. We are calling for a denial of the permit now. Please also see these linked articles:
Two reports: Fjord Union Hill Community Household Study & Dominion’s Community Engagement
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You are invited to join the increasing number of people who want to sign on to this open letter.
We had a petition that 6,200 people signed onto, which is now outdated. That petition was sent to the air board and also to Governor Northam, Attorney General Mark Herring and Natural Resources Secretary Matt Strickler. Thank you for your support in signing that petition! We want to keep the spotlight on this issue. Thus a new petition is forthcoming as we clarify the way forward.
Stop Environmental Racism in Virginia. Stop the Fracked-gas Compressor Station.
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To: State Air Pollution Control Board
December 27, 2018
An Open Letter Regarding the Threat of Environmental Racism and the Proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline
There is an undeniable pattern of dangerous, polluting industrial facilities being sited in poor communities of color across our nation. “Environmental racism” is a phrase used to describe this systematic positioning.
Right now, a consortium of companies led by Dominion Energy – the largest corporate donor in state political campaigns – is attempting to place the only Virginia compressor station for its unneeded, natural gas Atlantic Coast Pipeline in the low-income, mostly African-American community of Union Hill, in Buckingham County. Many area residents trace their ancestry to the people enslaved on or near the plantation land sold for this site.
On August 16, the Governor’s own Advisory Council on Environmental Justice called for a moratorium on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline until completion of serious investigations of credible environmental justice issues. Governor Northam, Attorney General Mark Herring, Secretary of Natural Resources Matt Strickler and Department of Environmental Quality Director David Paylor must honor the environmental justice matters in this air permit decision. It must be addressed now.
The legacy of placing toxic facilities in places where they disproportionately affect poor communities of color is unjust and unacceptable and needs acute examination. It is not right to look the other way while this continues.
Respectfully,
Pastor Paul Wilson, Union Hill Union Grove Baptist Church
Chad Oba, President, Friends of Buckingham, Impacted Landowner
Rev. Lakshmi Fjord, Ph.D. Anthropologist, Union Hill history and demography, Friends of Buckingham, Yogaville
CC:
Governor Ralph Northam
Attorney General Mark Herring
Secretary of Natural Resources Matt Strickler
Department of Environmental Quality Director David Paylor
In Solidarity:
Karenna Gore – Director of Center for Earth Ethics
Tim Guinee – Actor, Chair of Climate Reality Hudson Valley Chapter
Rev. Dr. William Barber, II – Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival
Dr. Robert Bullard – “Father of Environmental Justice,” Author, Scholar, Lecturer
Ella Rose – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, VA
Chelsea Handler – Comedian, TV Personality & Activist
Bill McKibben – Author, Senior Advisor and Co-founder of 350.org
Chase Iron Eyes – Activist, Attorney, Politician, and a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Heather McGhee – Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos
The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing – President and Founder of United Religious Initiative, Seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California
Del. Elizabeth R. Guzman – Virginia House of Delegates of the 31st District
Ruby Laury – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, VA, Union Grove Baptist Church, Friends of Buckingham, Concern for the New Generation
Danny Glover – Actor, Director, Political activist
Alyssa Milano – Actor, Producer, Activist
Cheryl Strayed – Best Selling Author
Del. Lee Carter — Virginia House of Delegates of the 50th District
Dr. Kusumita P. Pedersen – Trustee and member of Climate Action Task Force, Parliament of the World’s Religions
Tatiana Jones-Chambers – Impacted resident, Union Hill, Va
James Cromwell – Oscar Nominated Actor & Environmentalist
Rev. Susan Hendershot Guy – President of Interfaith Power & Light
Sebastian Roche – Actor
Ed Asner – Actor, Former president of the Screen Actors Guild
Ramin Bahrani -– Emmy-nominated director, Writer, Producer
Giancarlo Esposito – Actor, Producer
Dorothy Oliver – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va
Danny Zuker – Executive producer of Modern Family
Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. – Biologist, Author, Co-founder of New Yorkers Against Fracking
Jeffrey Eyth – Riverscape LLC River Outfitter and Livery, Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Laura Hillenbrand – Historian, Best-selling author of Seabiscuit and Unbroken
Debra Messing – Actor, Producer, Activist
Ken Berlin – President and CEO of Climate Reality Project
Irene Ellis Leech – Impacted landowner, Buckingham, Va
Marie Gillespie – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va
Dr. Helen Caldicott – Physician, Author, Activist
Nora Ann Jones – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va
Paul Gallay – President of Riverkeeper
Richard Greenstone – Impacted homeowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Don Cheadle – Oscar-nominated actor, Producer, Director, Writer
Jon Cryer – Actor, Producer, Author
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. – President of Hip Hop Caucus
Shelly Harper – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va
Wendell Pierce – Obie Award-winning actor, Tony Award-winning producer
Virginia Woodson – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va
Angela Sarafyan – Actor
Del. Mark Keam – Virginia House of Delegates of the 35th District
Del. Sam Rasoul – Virginia House of Delegates of the 11th District
Nischala Joy Devi – Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Debbie Levin – President and CEO of Environmental Media Association
Bruce Hogshead – Solitude Forest Farm, Buckingham, Va
Elaine Chiosso – Executive Director of Haw River Assembly
William F. Limpert – Impacted landowner, Bath County, VA, Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance, Highlanders for Responsible Development, Sierra Club
Annie Parr – Friends of Buckingham Steering Committee, impacted landowner, Buckingham, Va
Tim Hickey – 2019 Democratic candidate for Virginia House of Delegates of the 59th District
Wenonah Hauter – Founder and Executive Director of Food and Water Watch
Mary Louise Parker – Golden Globe-winning actor
Leslie Cockburn – 2018 Democratic nominee for Congress Virginia’s 5th District
Edith Harper – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va
David Leopold – Immigration attorney, Former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association
Lynn S. Limpert – Impacted landowner, Bath County, VA, member of the Sierra Club
Ed Begley, Jr. – Emmy-nominated actor, Activist
Eliza Orlins – NYC Public Defender
Carolyn N. Lyle – Sierra Club Equity Chair, Virginia Chapter
Theresa “Red” Terry – Impacted landowner, Bent Mountain, Va,Tree sitter, Member of Preserve Bent Mountain
Marie Hailey – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va
Rev. Dr. Gerald L. Durley – Board Chair of Interfaith Power & Light
Tom Cormons – Executive Director of Appalachian Voices
Rev. Dhyani Blue Star Simonini – Integral Yoga Minister, Eastern Lenne Lenape Nation, Shenandoah Region Disaster Action Team, Impacted homeowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Mustafa Santiago Ali – Environmental justice advocate, Senior Vice President of the Hip Hop Caucus
Luther Harper – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va
Renato Mariotti – Former federal prosecutor, CNN legal analyst
Frank L. Terry – Impacted landowner, Bent Mountain, Va
Frank H. Terry, Jr. – Impacted landowner, Bent Mountain, Va
Edward Zwick – Oscar-winning producer, Director, Writer
Kathy Mosley – Concern for the New Generation, Impacted landowner Union Hill, Va
Jamie Sarai Margolin – Executive Director of Zero Hour
John Laury – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va, Union Grove Baptist Church, Friends of Buckingham, Concern for the New Generation
Manna Jo Greene – Environmental Action Director of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater
Luis Guzman – Award-winning actor
Ada Washington – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va, Friends of Buckingham
Aidan Quinn – Actor
Glen Besa – Retired Director of the Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
Tom Benevento – Virginia Governor’s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice
Mary Finley-Brook – Virginia Governor’s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice
Dr. Beverly Wright – Professor of Sociology, Founding Director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
Lisa Lefferts, MSPH – Impacted landowner, Horizons Eco Village
William Huston – Huston Shaleshock Media, New York Residents Against Drilling, New York Friends of Clean Air and Water
Heidi Dhivya Berthoud, LMT, LYT, RDH – Secretary Friends of Buckingham, Baseline Testing Project Manager; Buckingham: We the People, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Warren Leight – Pulitzer Prize-finalist, Writer
Sheila M. Dowden – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Ernie Reed – Member of Board of Supervisors, Nelson County, Va
Holly Marie Combs – Actor, Activist
Swami Dayananda – LOTUS Center for All Faiths, Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Rev. Fletcher Harper – Executive Director of GreenFaith
Rev. Faith Harris – Chair of Virginia Interfaith Power & Light
Richard Walker – Impacted landowner, Union Hill, Va, CEO and Founder of Bridging the Gap in Virginia,
Beth Roach – Vice Chair of Virginia Governor’s Advisory Council on Environmental Justice, Mothers Out Front
Rev. Surya Lipscombe – Integral Yoga Minister, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Rev. Maureen Mala Cunningham, Ph.D. – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Montina Cole – GreenFaith Fellow
Samantha Ahdoot, MD, FAAP – Chair of Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action
Joyce Burton – Landowner liaison with Friends of Nelson
Mark Antoniewicz – Director of Communications with Hip Hop Caucus
Terence Muhammad – N.O.I., Community activist, Hip Hop Caucus
Kenda Hanuman – Buckingham: We the People, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Piper Perabo – Actor, Activist
Steven Weber – Actor
Samuel Eberle – Leadership member and former trustee of Yogaville, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Brian Johns – Executive Director of Virginia Organizing
Gioia Timpanelli – Winner of National Book Award and two Emmy Awards
Richard Averitt – Impacted landowner, Nelson County, Va, Rockfish Valley Investments, LLC (DBA Spruce Creek Resort and Market), Friends of Nelson
Jill Averitt – Impacted landowner, Nelson County, Va, Rockfish Valley Investments, LLC (DBA Spruce Creek Resort and Market), Friends of Nelson
The Rev. Weston Mathews – Co-Director of Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice
Siva Ernie Moore – Executive Director of Yogaville, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Eleanor Amidon – Organizer with Pipeline Education Group
Kristin Mink – Environmental activist
Rev. Shanti Sharon Norris – Co-Founder and past Executive Director of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Lou Diamond Phillips – Actor
Satya Greenstone – Impacted homeowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Kiran Bali, MBE, JP – Global Chair of United Religions Initiative
Jeeva Abbate – Yogaville Environmental Solutions, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Melissa Troutman – Director of Public Herald
Bill Geoghegan – Marketing manager, Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Lorne Stockman – Senior Research Analyst with Oil Change International
Kirk Bowers, P.E. – Pipelines Program Coordinator with Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
Lewis Freeman – Executive Director of Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance
Anson Mount – Actor, Producer
Bharata Wingham – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
William Espinosa – Executive Committee member of Cville 100
Kendyl Crawford – Director of Virginia Interfaith Power & Light
Kay Ferguson – ARTivism Virginia
Mindy Zlotnick – Yogaville Environmental Solutions, Buckingham: We the People, Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Coles Terry, III – Impacted landowner, Preserve Bent Mountain
Coles Terry, IV – Impacted landowner, Bent Mountain, Va
Peter Hedges – Oscar-nominated screenwriter of About A Boy, Director of Ben Is Back
Jane Evans – Motion picture executive director, Winner of the Audubon Society Rachel Carson Award
Barbara Gottlieb – Director of Environment & Health, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Larry M. Gross – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Mike Tidwell – Director of Chesapeake Climate Action Network
Kate Addleson – Director Sierra Club Virginia Chapter
Patricia Kerr Alexander – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Robert Dilday – Co-Director of Interfaith Alliance for Climate Justice
Barb Adams – Interfaith Climate Justice League
Mitra Somerville – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Lee Williams – Divest RVA
Sita Rose – Buckingham: We the People, Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Freeda Cathcart – Founder of Indivisible Virginia
John Cruickshank – Chair of Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club
Paula Grass Clements – Chair of Northern Virginia Chapter of the Climate Reality Project
Stacy Lovelace – Co-Founder of Virginia Pipeline Resisters
Marion Taylor – U.S. Green Building Council LEED AP, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Terry Kinney – Tony-nominated actor, Director
Jessica Sims – Co-Founder of Virginia Pipeline Resisters
Roberta Bondurant – Preserve Bent Mountain, Co-Chair of Protect Our Water Heritage Rights
Emily Satterwhite, Ph.D. – Appalachian studies scholar, Appalachians Against Pipelines
Cathy Strickler – Founder of Climate Action Alliance of the Valley
Chuck Berthoud – Retired geologist, Regional coordinator PA Breeding Bird Atlas, Contributor to W.Va. and Va. Breeding Bird Atlas
Minor Terry – Impacted landowner and tree sitter, Bent Mountain, Va
Harrison Wallace – Virginia Director of Chesapeake Climate Action Network, CCAN Action Fund
Jamshid Bakhtiari – Virginia Field Coordinator with Chesapeake Climate Action Network, CCAN Action Fund
Ruth Turner – Magnolia Productions, Wild Virginia
Brooke Smith – Actor, Filmmaker
Sakina Claytor – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Thomas Burkett – Virginia River Healers
Bonnie Law – Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights Steering Committee
Swami Gurucharanananda Mataji – Integral Yoga Senior Teacher, Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Lynda Majors – Preserve Montgomery County, Chair of Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights
Caroline Bray – Virginia Student Environmental Coalition
Maya Stewart-Silver – Friends of Nelson
Ali Mohamed Selim – Spirit Award-winning director
Freeman Allan – Vets for Peace, Cancel Compressor Coalition, VCSamerica.org
B.D. Wong –Tony Award-winning actor
Radha Metro-Midkiff – Owner of Tirtha Salon and Spa and Apothecary by Radha, Impacted landowner, Buckingham, Va
Karen Anderson – Sierra Club, Piedmont Chapter
Emmallyea Swonyoung – Impacted homeowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Natalie Pien – 350 Loudoun, Activist, Organizer; Conservation Co-Chair with Sierra Club Great Falls Group, Green Team Chair with Unitarian Universalist Church of Loudoun
Laurie Halligan – Cumberland County Landfill Awareness, Powhatan, VA
Marie Flowers – Friends of Buckingham Steering Committee, Secretary of Tri County Life Learners, St. Theresa Outreach Committee, Treasurer of Curdsville Community Center, Virginia Citizens for a Safe Society, Buckingham Garden Club
Larry Barker – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Deborah Kushner – Friends of Nelson
Jennifer Trippeer – Reclaim Augusta
David Copper – Reclaim Augusta
Miranda Massie – Director of The Climate Museum
Bhaskar Deva – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Rev. Barbara Bharati Gardino – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Rev. Lauren Van Ham – Seminary Dean with the Chaplaincy Institute, Environmental Network, United Religions Initiative
Rev. Malinda Harnish Clatterbuck – Co-Founder of Lancaster Against Pipelines
Maureen Houlihan – Impacted landowner, Buckingham, Va
Emily Little, RN – Volunteer with Generation 180
Elizabeth K. Williams, MD – American Academy of Pediatrics Fellow (retired), Board Member of Wild Virginia
Kimberly Williams – Mothers Out Front Team, Norfolk, Va
Ayya Dhammadhira – Buddhist nun, Founder of Web of Connection
Chas DiCapua – Buddhist priest
Collin Rees – Campaigner with Oil Change International
James Igoe – Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia
Barbara R. Arnwine – Transformative Justice Coalition
Rhonda Dennis – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Secky Fascione –Director of Organizing with Mothers Out Front
Harriet Shugarman – Founder of Climate Mama
John Clemons – Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
David Sligh – Conservation Director with Wild Virginia
Rhea Parvathi Moore – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Daniel Huyer – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Mary Stewart – Landowner, Nelson County, Va, Friends of Nelson, Friends of Buckingham, Friends of Horizons
Pam Gibson – Friends of Augusta, Reclaim Augusta
Kevin Halligan – Cumberland County Landfill Awareness, Powhatan, Va
Christal L. Schools – Chair of Cumberland County Landfill Awareness
Sharon Ponton – Stop the Pipelines Campaign Coordinator, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
Geralyn Tavernier – Cumberland County Landfill Awareness, Enough is Enough
Ronald Tavernier – Cumberland County Landfill Awareness, Enough Is Enough, Preserve Virginia
Rev. Shakti Ruth Mary Hall – Integral Yoga teacher and minister, Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Swami Sugunananda – Ashram Spiritual Events Coordinator, Impacted homeowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Rev. Prem Anjali – Editor, Integral Yoga Magazine; Director, Integral Yoga Media, Impacted homeowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Victoria Ronnau – President of Enough is Enough, Preserve Virginia
Rev. Patricia Gulino Lansky – Co-Minister with Unity of Charlottesville
Rev. Don Lansky – Co-Minister with Unity of Charlottesville
Billy Davies – Community Outreach Coordinator with Virginia Chapter Sierra Club
Helen Kimble – President of Friends of Nelson
Philippe Petit – High wire artist, Subject of documentary Man on Wire
Scott Ziemer – Renewable Energy Chair with Piedmont Group Sierra Club
Andrea Miller – Executive Director of People Demanding Action
Rev. Kumari de Sachy – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Rick Loiselle – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Amma Kidd – Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Dr. Mark Clatterbuck – Co-Founder of Lancaster Against Pipelines
Yanni Maniates – Director of Global Projects, UNITY EARTH
Abby Fox – Fairfax NAACP
Craig Stevens – Patriots From The Oil & Gas Shales, Marcellus Patriots For Land Rights
Garry Harris – Center for Sustainable Communities
April Pierson-Keating – Mountain Lakes Preservation Alliance, Clean Water Through Clean Energy
Susan Swaine – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
William Swaine – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Jenny Hopkins – Land Steward with Big Arms Farm
Jamie Knorr – Co-Founder of Village School, Charlottesville, Va
Randi Mayem Singer – Screenwriter
Queen Zakia Shabazz – Coordinator of Virginia Environmental Justice Collaborative, United Parents Against Lead & Other Environmental Hazards
Suzanne Keller – Retired epidemiologist, Virginia Department of Health
Thomas Hadwin – Electric and gas utilities executive (retired)
James McKinley-Oakes LCSW – Trauma therapist, Charlottesville, Va
Seth Oldham – Charlottesville, Va
Alice Robison – Water advocate, Bozeman, Montan
Cynthia S. Forga – Impacted resident, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Morgana Sythove – Secretary URI Netherlands, Chair Foundation PFI/ Pagan Federation International
Ayya Santacitta Bhikkhuni – Co-Abbess, Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery, Placerville, CA
Ray Kemble – Impacted landowner, Penn., International environmental justice warrior
Chelah Horsdal – Actor
Laney Sullivan – Lobo Marino
Igor Zdanof — Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va
Whitney Whiting – Photographer, Founder of Pipeline Podcast
Karen Karuna Kreps – Net Ingenuity, Integral Yoga Teacher
Sean Michael Haggerty
Michele Mattioli – Charlottesville, Va
Parameswari Adie — Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, buckingham, Va
Andrew Tyler – Cumberland, Va
Rosemary Gould – Charlottesville, Va
Lauren Nyland – Lyndhurst, Va
Alia Yarrow – Friends of Buckingham, Friends of Nelson, Crozet, Va
Hayden Shaw – Friends of Buckingham, Friends of Nelson, Crozet, Va
Greyson and Ariana Williams – Charlottesville, Va
Andie Macdowell – Actor
Grey McLean – Charlottesville, Va
Andrea Benavitch Wasiewski – Friends of Augusta
Betty Harper – Impacted landowner Union Hill, Buckingham, Va
Barry Hart – Professor of trauma, identity and conflict studies
Sophie Schectman – Virginia Student Environmental Coalition
Clara Carlson – Virginia Student Environmental Coalition
Réjean Dion – Impacted landowner, Yogaville Village Center, Buckingham, Va, Friends of Buckingham
Jennifer Lewis – President and Founder of Friends of Augusta; 6th District Congressional Candidate
Alan Moore – Chair of Environmental Justice Team, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Blacksburg; Director of Faith Development, UU Church of Roanoke; Environmental Scientist; father of 3
Kathie Hoekstra – Alexandria climate activist
Barbara R. Arnwine – The Transformative Justice Coalition
Cat McCue – Charlottesville, Va
Vernice Miller-Travis, Board Member, Clean Water Action, Bowie, MD
Maya van Rossum – Leader, Delaware Riverkeeper Network and Founder, For the Generations
Susan Casey-Lefkowitz – Chief Program Officer, Natural Resources Defense Council
Kevin Chandler, President, VSC NAACP
Karen Campblin, Chair, Environment and Climate Justice Committee
Anne Hunter – Reclaim Augusta
Linda Shallash – Reclaim Augusta
Pam Gibson – Reclaim Augusta
Royce Gibson – Reclaim Augusta
Ali Symons – Climate & Anti-pipeline activist; Clean Energy advocate; member of Sierra Club VA & Climate Reality Project NOVA
Jonathan Sokolow – President, Whole Child Pediatrics, Ashburn, Va.
Katherine Thimnakis – Concerned Citizens for Animal Protection
A mighty fine thanks to all contributors, lovers of our Home Planet!
Earlier incarnations of the letter below:
Pdf of 12/17/2018 letter here:
Letter of Support for Justice for Union Hill, with support from Karenna Gore and others 12-17-18
Press release of12/17/2018 letter here.
Pdf of 12/8/2018 letter here:
Letter of Support for Justice for Union Hill, with support from Karenna Gore and others
This pipeline is TOTALLY unnecessary—used to ship our resource (THAT WILL NOT LONGER BE NEEDED, as solar and wind energy take over) just so Dominion can make MORE $$$ that it DOES NOT NEED and caring NOTHING about our African-American neighbors!! Governor Northam’s bowing to Dominion is truly unacceptable, and I hope he gets his day in court sooner than later. During the election, when I twice tried to talk with him about the pipeline, he literally just mumbled! And, then EVERY member of his interim staff had had a job with a pipeline company. To split a community to lay a pipeline is truly evil!!!
#WeAreAllUnionHill
It saddens me deeply that lower income and persons of color are not protected. Our earth is for all. (from the letter above) The legacy of placing toxic facilities in places where they disproportionately affect poor communities of color is unjust. Think about your children and their children. Think about other peoples children.
Please do not be part of letting greed destroy our ecosystem and cause immense suffering to human beings and all life.
Rhonda Dennis, resident of Yogaville and a land owner in Buckingham County. Please do not let the ACP pollute our ground water, our land, or our air. As a nation we should be focused on renewable energy.
Rhonda, did you want to add your name to the new list of signers? I can do that. Heidi Dhivya
The Transformative Justice Coalition calls on the Commonwealth of Virginia to deny this permit.
Hi Barbara, i take it that you would like to add your name and org to the new list of signers, which i have. Heidi Dhivya
You can add my name to the list. Kathie Hoekstra, Alexandria climate activist
Pipelines like ACP and MVP destroy irreplaceable natural and cultural resources in order to exhaust our dwindling energy resources for sale to the highest bidder in overseas markets. There is no public benefit and certainly no justification to seize private property. This orgy of fossil fuel development is entirely a political decision, subsidized $20 billion a year by U.S. taxpayers. Each dollar of fracked gas profit results in over $15 in carbon recovery cost to the public. The biggest cost is shouldered by future generations and marginalized fencline communities like Union Hill which are specifically targeted by racial, economic, and age demographics which make them appear vulnerable. Nothing could be further from the truth. Union Hill is strong and resilient, and the Circle of Protection is growing.
Please add my name. Thank you!
Alan Moore
Chair of Environmental Justice Team, Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Blacksburg
Director of Faith Development, UU Church of Roanoke
Environmental Scientist and father of 3
Thank you so much for your support! We know our work together will defeat both the ACP, and the MVP. The tide is turning thanks to our profound networking support of each other.
I’m President and founder of Friends of Augusta, where we’ve been fighting the ACP on the front lines for over 4 years.
I’m also Congressional candidate for the 6th District this year.
Please add my name and organization.
I am President and Founder of Friends of Augusta, where we’ve been on the front lines for the last 4 years fighting the ACP.
I am also the 6th District Congressional Candidate.
Standing in line to get into hearing
Please add my name. Jonathan Sokolow, President, Whole Child Pediatrics, Ashburn, Va.
Please add my name with our harmonious Soul Voices to protect our precious animal friends who will be the first to be injured and killed. With the late,distinguished Dr. Anderson (Buckingham’s Vet) we founded an advocate committee in 2004. I remain steadfast with our formidable political agenda = that Nature’s treasures are sacred.these are documented crimes against nature. Together we will prevail.
signed: Katherine Thimnakis Concerned Citizens for Animal Protection.PHONE(434)
969-2017.