Governor Northam Must Act to Protect Virginian’s and Our Waters
By David Sligh, Conservation Director, Wild Virginia Let Your Voice Be Heard! Our new Governor has the authority and duty to protect our waters and communities from the Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast Pipelines. Governor Northam must uphold the principles he has supported for many months and we ask that you let him know that you… Read more
What Did the State Water Control Board Do?
by David Sligh for Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition After the Virginia State Water Control Board (Board) decisions about the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) uncertainties and confusion remain. We thought we’d give you our best explanation as to what happened and what might come next. Before… Read more
Frequently Asked Questions
Making Comments at the Virginia State Water Control Board Meetings The Virginia State Water Control Board, a citizen board that has authority over certain permits affecting Virginia’s waterways, will hold meetings this month on permit applications for the proposed Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast fracked-gas pipelines. Citizens who previously submitted comments to the State Water… Read more
Forest Service Clears the Way for ACP
Guest Post by our partners at the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA) A response to objections raised to the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) Draft Record of Decision (ROD) about whether the proposed amendments to the Forest Plans of the Monongahela and George Washington National Forests to accommodate the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) has been issued by the… Read more
Contact your representative about H.R. 2936
The House yesterday passed The “Resilient Federal Forests Act,” H.R. 2936 encouraging and allowing more logging on national forests framed as a way to curtail wildfires. The vote was 232-188. The Virginia delegation voted in a straight party line with all Republicans (Whitman, Taylor, Garrett, Goodlatte, Griffith, Brat and Comstock) voting in favor of the… Read more
Westerman Bill Creates Loophole to Allow Exploitation of National Forests
by Susannah Gilmore The H.R. 2936 “Westerman Bill” has just entered the process of amendment and discussion in Congress. Proposed last June, it seeks to “improve forest management” by essentially allowing industry to bypass environmental assessment as mandated in the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 in order to expedite industrial progress. The bill… Read more
Wild Virginia Response to VOF’s Failure to Defend Conservation Easements
We are very disappointed in yesterday’s decision by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation (VOF) to decline to defend easements on 13 Virginia properties and approve a conversion that will allow the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines to violate standing conservation easement agreements with VOF. We cannot emphasize how important conservation and trust agreements are in protecting… Read more
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