In a scene resembling a church service, opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline gathered under a tent Sunday at the Rockfish Valley Community Center in Nelson County as several spoke of how the controversial project personally affects them.
Among “testifiers,” as described by attorney Henry Howell III during Friends of Nelson’s first “Property Rights Revival,” was 83-year-old Hazel Palmer.
The Lyndhurst resident is taking a stand that will carry her to the Supreme Court of Virginia to determine whether Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC had the right to survey her land without her permission to chart a route for a 42-inch-wide natural gas pipeline through property that has been in her family’s possession since 1880.
“It’s a beautiful place … so I’m fighting to keep the pipeline from my property,” Palmer said as she received cheers from gatherers Sunday, adding: “I’m fighting for you and for me, and I hope we will be able to turn things around for us.”
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