This series of short films will be shown in Charlottesville on April 5th, 2016 at 6:30pm at the Violet Crown Cinema. Bringing Back the Brooks – Jeremy Monroe, David Herasimtschuk 2015 An Education, A Father-Daughter Trip of Discovery – Mike Libecki, Mike Schirf, Fitz Cahall | 2014 Comes with Baggage – Dominic Gill, Nadia Boctor | 2015… Read more
This series of short films will be shown in Harrisonburg on March 30th, 2016 at 7pm at the Court Square Theater. Bringing Back the Brooks – Jeremy Monroe, David Herasimtschuk 2015 Defined by the Line – Rebecca Cahall, Alex Lowther, Jimmy Hooper | 2015 Bounce, this is not a freestyle movie – Guillaume Blanchet | 2014 Emerald… Read more
In an effort to demonstrate the profound impacts of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) has published an online interactive mapping system detailing the environmental risks and sensitivities associated with the proposed route. As the User Guide points out, this program hopes to “organize and provide access to environmental information and… Read more
Dominion has proposed to adopt an alternative route (GWNF 6) for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) in order to avoid the threatened species in the Cheat and Shenandoah Mountain ranges. In order to avoid these mountains, the new, proposed route will pass through Pocahontas County, cross into Highland County and then into Bath and Augusta… Read more
On February 12, 2016 Dominion Transmission announced intentions of filing with FERC next week a new route for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Map – Courtesy of DPMC Even with this new route, Dominion has yet to demonstrate two Forest Service prerequisites to building the pipeline across the National Forest: Dominion must prove that the private… Read more
This week, Congress will be voting an appropriations bill that is slated to include provisions that would that would significantly harm national forests. These appropriations are part of a wider deal to reform federal spending on the wildfire budget, allowing more disaster funds to be used for fire fighting. What this means, however, is that… Read more
As a human species, we seem to be doing our best to overwhelm the natural balances of the earth: we waste about 1/3 of all food produced (and up to 40% in the U.S.), we cut down 46-58,000 square miles of forest a year, and scientists predict global temperature increases as high as 8.6° by 2100. Yet,… Read more
The Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC), headed by retired UVA Senior Scientist Rick Webb, seeks to keep Virginia politicians, government bodies, and Dominion on their toes concerning environmental effects of pipelines and natural gas infrastructure. To identify potential problems, DPMC runs a civilian air force that takes photographs of existing and planned infrastructure sites. In their latest investigative effort, the DPMC… Read more
