County hires company, buys equipment to keep eye on emissions, noise

BREDL.org

• BREDL and our Chapters along the MVP file Motion to Intervene and Comment in Opposition to Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC Request for Extension of Time
  Sep. 10, 2020: Not all pipeline projects are the same. Not all pipeline companies are the same. FERC should properly examine this case and not simply grant this extension. FERC has a great opportunity here - the opportunity to right a wrong. Commissioners can prevent further harm to the communities along the MVP route by […]
• Group Finds Catch-22 in Georgia's Plant Vogtle License Changes - Legal Appeal Filed Sept. 4
  Sep. 09, 2020: Today residents of the Shell Bluff community and the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League announced that they had filed a legal appeal of the license changes granted last month to the owners of Plant Vogtle. In an eight-page brief filed on Friday, the opponents of the license identified a ''Catch-22" process used […]
• No ACP/Stop MVP Unity Banner Presented to Water Protectors in Bent Mountain
  Aug. 18, 2020: The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, its chapters and allies presented a Unity Banner to water protectors and pipeline fighters at the Bent Mountain Community Center, Bent Mountain, VA. The Unity Banner was created to symbolize solidarity between those who successfully fought and stopped the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and those who […]
• Summer 2020 edition of The League Line now online
  Cover: Victory! Never give up - the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is dead by Therese Vick & Sharon Ponton; Cover: Marvin Winstead statement on ACP victory; ACP Victory!: The lone yellow pine that helped stop a giant by Catherine Cralle Jones, The Law Office of F. Bryan Brice, Jr.; ACP Victory!: A Virginia landowner's victory; ACP […]
• BREDL sends letter to Governor Northam requesting he prevent an influx of thousands of out of state pipeline workers into southwest and southside Virginia during ongoing pandemic
  Aug. 06, 2020: We have grave concerns that adding thousands of workers - many coming from states currently designated as "hot spots" for COVID-19 - will not only significantly increase the number of cases in these counties but will also put an undue burden on our local healthcare system.
• Residents Call for Public Hearing on Pipeline
  Jul. 21, 2020: Landowners on the proposed route of a new natural gas pipeline in Florence County South Carolina have requested a public hearing. Adopting the name Pamplico Pipeline Defense Committee, the group seeks to protect residents living in the path of a 14.5 mile, 16-inch gas line proposed by Dominion Energy South Carolina.
• BREDL comments on DFC plan to lift ban on investment into advanced nuclear projects
  Jul. 13, 2020: The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is expected to agree to lift a ban on investment into advanced nuclear energy projects for export in July. The proposed change to the agency's E​nvironmental and Social Policy and Procedures ​that would enable the consideration of support of nuclear power projects
• Atlantic Coast Pipeline Cancelled - Statements of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League staff and chapter members who lived in the path of the project
  Jul. 05, 2020: Duke and Dominion's press release: Dominion Energy (NYSE: D) and Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) today announced the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline ("ACP") due to ongoing delays and increasing cost uncertainty which threaten the economic viability of the project.
• 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