Saturday July 18, 2015, 3:30–9:30 p.m. Devil’s Backbone Brewery. Music for the Mountains. It was wonderful! Hundreds came to enjoy Music for the Mountains, raising funds to fight the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. A huge thank you to Devil’s Backbone for the wonderful venue, to Showman and Chief Organizer Larry Stopper, to Queen of Volunteers Helen […]
Buckingham Compressor Station Protest. Come help Friends of Buckingham as they protest Dominion's Community Advisory Group for the proposed ACP compressor station (a PR event designed to replace a fair public forum with open dialogue).
Bi-weekly Protest at Dominion Virginia Power's Charlottesville headquarters (across from Whole Foods) - Bring your signs and wear your t-shirts to protest the ACP. Sponsored by Virginia Sierra Club, 350.org, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Friends of Nelson.
Meet the Candidates Forum - Nelson County Chamber of Commerce at the Nelson Center, 7pm. All local and state candidates have been invited. Great opportunity to show up early and submit questions! More info on this forum here.
A hearing in Buckingham County Circuit Court before Judge Donald Blessing has been scheduled on ACP's motions for entry of an order granting it entry upon private properties to survey, inspect and REMOVE "items of interest" (to ACP) without owners' consent (or even knowledge as to exact times and identity of property removed). At the […]
Join us for a rally that carries forward Central Virginia’s engagement in the fight for climate protection and clean energy solutions! As area residents organize to resist fracked gas transmission projects, the time is now to join the call for solar, wind, and efficiency and say Stop the Pipelines! Looking ahead to Paris and beyond, […]
Bi-weekly Protest at Dominion Virginia Power's Charlottesville headquarters (across from Whole Foods) - Bring your signs and wear your t-shirts to protest the ACP. Sponsored by Virginia Sierra Club, 350.org, Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, Friends of Nelson.
If you haven't signed up to be an intervenor, we're holding another workshop to help you do so. Stop by any time between 1 and 5. What is an “intervenor?” According to FERC’s Frequently Asked Questions, “An intervenor is an official party to a proceeding and enjoys distinct advantages over those who only file comments. […]
Bring Friends and family and join us for this community organized Prayers Not Pipelines event on Sunday, October 25th, 10-3PM at the Rockfish Valley Foundation/ Spruce Creek Gallery. Imagine a “wall” of white gauzy fabric wrapped around the trees so that you can see through to the trees but blocked enough to imagine their loss. […]
Annual meeting of the Virginia Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society. Topics covered will include extreme weather events, increasing variation in annual precipitation, predicted water-demand increases, and gaps in data for surface water and groundwater. Register at http://ww2.bse.vt.edu/swcs/ Registration is $50, and registration closes on October 21. Contact Erin Ling at ejling@vt.edu, […]
