by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 6, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Fracking
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal has just released its Advisory Opinion, recommending a worldwide ban on hydraulic fracturing, the extreme oil and gas extraction technique known as ‘fracking.’ The materials, and infrastructure of fracking inherently and necessarily...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Feb 8, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
In a press release on February 8, 2019, the Southern Environmental Law Center announced their challenge of the Air Pollution Control Board on behalf of the Union Hill Community. The press release states: Today the Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of its...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 25, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
A protester is removed from the Jan. 8 meeting of the Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board. (Steve Helber/Associated Press) By Vivian E. Thomson January 25 at 4:06 PM Vivian E. Thomson, a retired professor of environmental policy at the University of Virginia,...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 18, 2019 | Health & Safety, Regulatory Permit Process
A portion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline construction site in Franklin County. (Roberta Kellam) Visiting the Mountain Valley Pipeline construction corridor in southwest Virginia was a promise I made to local residents while I was a member of the State Water Control...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 17, 2019 | Compressor Stations, Regulatory Permit Process
A member of a Virginia state permitting board who last week approved a highly controversial certification for Dominion’s planned Atlantic Coast pipeline has business ties to a company currently collaborating with Dominion on a related gas project, DeSmog...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jan 13, 2019 | Pipelines, Politics of energy, Regulatory Permit Process
A lobbyist for the natural gas industry told West Virginia legislators Tuesday that progress on a pipeline that stretches through the Mountain State was slowed because of “rogue environmental groups” challenging the project in the federal court system. In reality,...
