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• BREDL and chapters file Motion to Intervene and Comment in opposition to ACP LLC and Dominion Energy Transmission Inc. request for extension of time
  Jul. 02, 2020: ACP/Dominion's failure to complete its due diligence - listening to communities, to experts, to the agencies from whom it needed permits - is the reason it has been forced into the position of seeking an extension of two (2) years for the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.
• ACTION ALERT: LISTEN IN: Nuclear Plant Vogtle 3 hearing on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at 10:00 AM Eastern
  Jun. 27, 2020: NUCLEAR ALERT! LISTEN IN: Vogtle 3 hearing on Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at 10:00 AM Eastern: Who: Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, Southern Company, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League What: Preliminary Hearing Oral Argument Where: Hearing Conducted via Teleconference Why: Should Southern's Request for License Amendment be Granted
• Citizens Take Legal Action Against Alamance County
  Jun. 18, 2020: Today residents of Snow Camp and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) filed for legal action in Alamance County Superior Court, demanding that the County enforce the regulations in its Heavy Industrial Development Ordinance (HIDO). At issue is a proposed rock quarry in the residential community.
• Reply of BREDL and our chapter Concerned Citizens of Shell Bluff to answers of NRC and SNC regarding Plant Vogtle
  Jun. 15, 2020: BREDL contends that, under the guise of a one-inch change in the seismic gap between two critical walls in the Vogtle reactor, Southern Nuclear Company has admitted to a much more serioius problem.
• BREDL Comments on Draft EIS for Plutonium Pit Production at Savannah River Site
  May 18, 2020: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act - Section 102 42 U.S.C. 4332 DOE/NNSA must take a systematic, interdisciplinary approach to environmental impact on the human environment. The draft EIS posits two alternatives: 1) Proposed Action to repurpose the mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility into the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility to […]
• ACTION ALERT! PLANT VOGTLE PERFORMANCE MEETING ONLINE - Public Invited: Call for shutdown!
  On Wednesday, May 20, at 4:30 PM, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a public information session online. It will have NRC employees responsible for plant inspections participating, including the operating and construction resident inspectors. The session is scheduled for 4:30 p.m., Eastern Time. The public is encouraged to attend.
• BREDL and our chapter Concerned Citizens of Shell Bluff file Petition regarding Plant Vogtle Plant 3 License Amendment and Exemption
  May. 12, 2020: The Company's License Amendment Request does not comply with the current licensing basis, the applicable statutes and regulations, or the process for modifying the current licensing basis for Vogtle Unit 3 as set forth in 10 CFR 52.98(f). The Nuclear Regulatory Commission cannot approve this license amendment request. Our principal interests are […]
• Spring 2020 edition of The League Line now online
  May 11, 2020: We have posted out latest newsletter online. Articles include: North Carolina landowners fight Atlantic Coast Pipeline invasion during pandemic, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18, Non – ionizing radiation, good or bad?, BREDL's new podcast: In Our Backyard Podcast, Anderson and Prospect Hill join forces in a new […]
• Residents Request Comprehensive Review of Three Asphalt Permits - Fear Fatal Flaw in the Future of Caswell County
  May 04, 2020: Today, residents of Caswell County made a formal request to the Board of Commissioners for a comprehensive review of existing and proposed paving industry permits in the Prospect Hill and Anderson communities. The request echoed one made Thursday to the Division of Air Quality by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League.
• Landowners Fight Pipeline Invasion During Pandemic - Request Filed to Adopt Resolution Opposing Atlantic Coast Pipeline
  Apr. 07, 2020: Landowners on the route of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline are fighting to prevent the company's financial appraisers from entering their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to Nash County delivered Friday, residents formally requested that the Board of Commissioners reject the pipeline, citing reductions in safety measures and harassment […]