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Letters to the Editor Concerning GRP

2/6/20 – Noise, pollution makes GRP bad neighbor_Opinion_franklincountycitizen.com

1/9/20 – GRP a menace to chicken farm_Opinion_franklincountycitizen.com

12/24/19 – MITCHAM_ GRP, health and money _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

12/13/19 – LETTER_ Madison County Clean Power Coalition thanks neighbors _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

12/12/19 – LETTER_County leaders need to ‘make it right’ concerning power plant_Opinion_franklincountycitizen.com

12/12/19 – LETTER_ Disappointed in county leaders over GRP _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

12/5/19 – LETTER_Citizens’ health at risk due to GRP plant_Opinion_franklincountycitizen.com

11/28/19 – LETTER_ Why worry about the rain on the toxic railroad ties_ _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

11/28/19 – LETTER_ Is GRP a good neighbor_ _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

11/21/19 – LETTER_ Local leaders sound like GRP spokesmen _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

11/21/19 – LETTER_ We can work together to protect ourselves from GRP _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

11/15/19 – LETTER_ GRP broke its promise; leaders need to stand with residents _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

11/7/19 – LETTER_ Fearful of how this new plant will affect us _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

11/7/19 – LETTER_ GRP — good or bad_ _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

11/7/19 – LETTER_ County should speak in opposition to the burning of any toxic materials _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

11/7/19 – LETTER_Concerns over biomass plants should be respected_Opinion_franklincountycitizen.com

10/31/19 – LETTER_ Madison Co. scientists voice concern about power plant _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

10/24/19 – LETTER_ Local leaders should fight to enforce original GRP agreement _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

10/24/19 – LETTER_ GRP is an environmental disaster _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

10/24/19 – LETTER_ GRP shouldn’t burn railroad ties _ Opinion _ mainstreetnews.com

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Autumn 2020 edition of The League Line now online
Cover: Mountain Valley Pipeline obtains two-year extension and approval to resume construction - Fight is not over! by Mark Barker; Director's Report: BREDL's approach to community organizing by Louis Zeller; Activists don't quit by Renee Cail - BREDL's In Our Backyard Podcast - Recent Interviews conducted by Jenn Galler; Roanoke County forwards BREDL's request to […]
Protect Caswell Car Caravan
Nov. 14, 2020: On Saturday, members and supporters of Protect Caswell held a rolling demonstration of support for the group's goals of environmental justice and public health. The 17-vehicle caravan bedecked with signs, streamers and balloons carried scores of people down Yanceyville's Main Street and back.
BREDL - Eminent Justice: How a pipeline was cancelled
Nov. 11, 2020: Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League staff and chapter members talk about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline fight. The Dominion Energy and Duke Energy ACP was approved in 2014. Had it been constructed, it would have traversed 550 miles from West Virginia through Virginia to North Carolina. The pipeline companies cancelled the project on […]
BREDL comments to U.S. Forest Service DSEIS for MVP
Nov. 09, 2020: Mountain Valley Pipeline is seeking approval to plow a 42-inch natural gas climate wrecking pipeline through 3.5 miles of our life-sustaining national forest. The Jefferson National Forest Plan would need to be amended to allow this intrusion. Just because FERC rubberstamps projects does not mean that the Forest Service has to go […]
BREDL comments to NC DEQ regarding Addendum to Consent Order for Chemours PFAS pollution
Sep. 17, 2020: BREDL comments on the proposed Addendum to the Consent Order Paragraph 12, which requires additional actions by Chemours to prevent PFAS pollution from entering the Cape Fear River via contaminated groundwater from the Fayetteville Works Site.
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.