Pollution – Other Sources
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Virginia Mercury: Buckingham’s next environmental fight? Maybe gold mining.
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is dead. So what’s next for Buckingham County? Gold, apparently. This month, plans by a Canadian gold mining company to extract the valuable commodity from thousands of acres of land in Buckingham surfaced, setting off a wave of alarm in a...
Gold Mining problems in brief & links to extensive resources
Buckingham Gold Project, Aston Bay Fact Sheet Compiled by Friends of Buckingham Water Pollution Groundwater contamination is of particular concern where the groundwater feeds surface streams or lakes, or where the groundwater is directly a source of potable water for...
Cumberland landfill public hearing Wednesday March 25th, 7-8:30 pm
County Waste/Green Ridge has filed a Notice of Intent and Part A Permit Application with the Department of Environmental Quality to develop a 1200-acre Landfill in eastern Cumberland County. This Heavy Industrial Facility will have a significant impact on the...
YOGAVILLE STATEMENT OF CONCERN
Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville is seriously concerned by Gov. Northam’s dismissal of VA State Air Pollution Control (air board) Board members who expressed concern re: environmental justice On Nov 15, VA Governor Ralph Northam replaced two members of the air board....
Air pollution is the ‘new tobacco’, warns WHO head
Exclusive: Simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more, but ‘a smog of complacency pervades the planet’, says Dr Tedros Adhanom • Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus: Air pollution is the new tobacco. Time to tackle this epidemic...
Pipeline isn’t done deal, will bring noxious effects
The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is not a "done deal" and the zoning variance Dominion Energy and its partners seek and that would destroy the hard work and dreams of the Ryan Blosser family is not a "done deal" either. The ACP, if built, will require victims for...
Outlaws are more ethical than Dominion’s pipeline company
Ryan and Joy Blosser and their two children are at risk of being robbed of their livelihood and their domestic tranquility at the point of a pen. I do not know the Blossers personally, but I was moved by their presentation at the Augusta County Board of Zoning Appeals...
Ten Government-Industry Myths about Biosolids, aka Sludge
This well researched paper by Caroline Snyder, PhD answers many questions. Please click here for the document: Biosolids- 10 Myths
Poll: Congressional Efforts to Kill Methane Pollution Rule Unpopular in AZ
PHOENIX – Efforts by the oil and gas industry to roll back an Obama-era environmental rule don't sit well with most Arizonans, according to a new poll. The energy industry wants Congress to kill a rule which reduces the amount of natural gas released or burned off at...
Virginia House of Delegates committee defangs coal ash bill
A bill that would have required Dominion Virginia Power to submit more information to state regulators before it is allowed to close what environmental groups contend are leaky, unlined ponds containing millions of tons of coal ash has cleared a House committee,...