The Friends of Nelson public meeting, scheduled for 6=9 pm at Rockfish Valley Community Center, have been postponed because of potential bad weather. Once we have finalized dates with our speakers and our venue, we will send out information on a new date for the public meeting. Our dynamic guest speakers Rick Cornelius and Ivy […]
Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Dominion Virginia Energy (Charlottesville headquarters), 1719 Hydraulic Rd., Charlottesville 22901, protest against the ACP. Bring your signs and wear your t-shirts to protest the ACP at Dominion’s Charlottesville headquarters. Sponsored by Friends of Nelson.
Saturday, September 22 -10:30 am to 12:30 pm, Blue Ridge Parkway, Humpback Rocks Visitor Center, Milepost 5.8. Join hands to protect our land, water, air, communities, and natural treasures from the threats posed by unnecessary, unwanted, and unnatural fracked gas pipelines at our Third annual Hands Across the Appalachian Trail! The dedicated work of hundreds […]
Co-sponsored by Friends of Augusta, Friends of Buckingham, Friends of Nelson, LIAM, and SAW CAN. We the People, this documentary tells the story of of people across the U.S. who have faced decades of of environmental assaults - such as fracking and sludging of farmland - and what they are doing about it. Sunday, September […]
September 26, 2018, 5:30-8:30m at Dominion Energy's Charlottesville headquarterson Hydraulic Rd, sponsored by Charlottesville's Democratic Socialists of America. We stand in solidarity with Red, Minor, Nutty, Lauren, Nettle, and all those who oppose the pipeline projects in West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, specifically the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines. Fracked gas pipeline projects […]
September 30th, 2018, 3:00-4:30 pm, Rockfish Valley Foundation, 1368 Rockfish Valley Hwy, Nellysford, VA 22958 – The Defenders dedication. The Defenders is the 8-foot tall 8-foot wide anti-pipeline sculpture created by Mark Schwenk and Cheryl Langlais of Berkeley Springs West Virginia. Members of the public are cordially invited to the dedication of The Defenders sculpture […]
The Friends of Nelson public meeting, originally scheduled for September 16, 2018, will be held September 30, happily with the same two dynamic guest speakers! Join us from 6:30 to 9 pm at Rockfish Valley Community Center to hear our speakers, with time for questions and answers. Guest Speakers: Rick Cornelius – Rick has been […]
Wednesday, October 3, 2018, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Dominion Virginia Energy (Charlottesville headquarters), 1719 Hydraulic Rd., Charlottesville 22901, protest against the ACP. Bring your signs and wear your t-shirts to protest the ACP at Dominion’s Charlottesville headquarters. Sponsored by Friends of Nelson.
On Thursday October 4, 2018, the Augusta Board of Zoning Appeals will consider Dominion's request for a pipe yard in West Augusta. This request was continued from the September meeting.
Spend the day or stay overnight at Spruce Creek Camp in Nelson County, Virginia on land threatened by the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The biggest regional land-clearing project since the federal highway program of the 1960s is now underway in Virginia. In order to build the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines, Dominion Energy and EQT […]
