Pipeline protester Priscilla Sonne holds a drum as she and a small group of others sing before Monday’s meeting.
COURTESY OF MARION KANOUR
At last month’s planning commission meeting in Buckingham County, so many people signed up to speak about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline that a second meeting was created just to continue the public comments. WMRA’s Jordy Yager was there.
On an unseasonably warm October evening, about a hundred people gathered Monday at the Buckingham County Administration Complex.
Most were there to protest the proposed compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Wearing pins and shirts emblazoned with “No Pipeline” and “No Compressor,” several dozen people joined in song beforehand.
But inside, it was all business, as six members of the sheriff’s department stood watch over the crowd and 22 area residents got up, one-by-one, to speak their minds.
PAUL BARLOW: Look I’m a realist, okay.
Paul Barlow and his wife own 20 acres less than 5 miles away from the proposed compressor station being sought by Dominion Power and three other large companies.
BARLOW: I know Dominion has a lot of money, a lot of power. $45 billion buys a lot. They have an army of lawyers that will litigate and litigate and litigate until they get their way. We request that you table this motion until adequate research is done and alternative methods are investigated to reduce or eliminate pollution and compressor station noise. Once they get that permit in their hand, they’re going to do whatever they want to do. Thank you.
The companies are asking Buckingham County for a special use permit to install a station that would compress the natural gas as it flows through the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, from the fracking fields of West Virginia to utility customers in North Carolina.
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