Two vital State Water Control Board meetings this week

We've got two important State Water Control Board meetings coming up tomorrow and Tuesday (December 11th and 12th 2017). The Water Control Board will be considering- and attempting to approve- permits for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Last week, they rubber-stamped approvals for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which has not yet had a substantive environmental impact review. Go over to No ACP, Free Nelson, and Appalachian Voices for more information. It's very important that the public show up to oppose this pipeline; come for a day, come for an hour, just come for however long you can.

Both the December 11th and 12th meetings will begin at 9:30am, and be held at the Trinity Family Life Center (3601 Dill Road, Richmond VA).

If the meeting regarding the Mountain Valley Pipeline is any indication, there will be a substantial police presence.

Pipelines and other fossil fuel related infrastructure are dangerous. Not just in terms of leaks and explosions, although those things will definitely happen and definitely devastate the communities and ecosystems around the project, but in terms of the existential threat posed by climate change. Every multi-billion-dollar pipeline like this is the energy industry doubling-down on climate-change-accelerating power sources. Do you think Dominion Power will bother investing in renewables if it's got a pipeline to send natural gas to harbors for export? Of course not; renewables just aren't a substantive part of their plans, not because they're untenable, but because they will be somewhat less profitable during the transition. We can't just sit by while the architects of the climate apocalypse speed up the disaster.

Ethics Lessons from the Flint Water Crisis: Siddhartha Roy and LeeAnne Walters

Wednesday, November 15th 2017, from 6:30-9pm, at the Science Museum of Virginia (2500 West Broad Street, Richmond VA) Siddhartha Roy of Virginia Tech and LeeAnne Walters, Flint resident and activist, will describe their experiences living through the water poisoning crisis which began in 2014 and what transpired to allow this modern tragedy to unfold. 

Free, open to the public, lot parking available. 

For more information and to RSVP, see this link. 

“Applying Indigenous Legal Traditions to Conceptualizing Water Justice" with Dr. Deborah McGregor

Thursday, October 6th 2016, at 5pm, in room 1030J of the West Grace Street Student Housing (830 West Grace Street, Richmond VA), Dr. Deborah McGregor, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice at the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, will give a presentation titled “Applying Indigenous Legal Traditions to Conceptualizing Water Justice." 

Free, open to the public.