Just like for the hearings last week on the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline…what on earth are Dominion Energy and the other pro-pipeline forces so worried about? 60-70 year olds coming to testify against the environment-trashing pipelines and to try and protect our planet from rapacious greed? Yeah, so dangerous, huh? I encourage everyone to keep a close eye on today’s Virginia State Water Control Board meeting on the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). To understand why the ACP is such a terrible idea, see Lopez and Rasoul: Pipeline not worth cost to Virginians, Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Environmental Racism, and the Appalling Silence of the Good People, McAuliffe’s Folly: The Atlantic “Trump” Pipeline, New Report: Atlantic Coast Pipeline Part of a Widespread, Systemic Market Failure, Doing the Math: Dominion’s and FERC’s Own Numbers Tell Us the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a Budget Buster, “The Science is as Clear as a Mountain Stream:” 500 Show Up Against Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Demand DEQ Do Its Job, Audio: Dominion Fracked Gas Pipeline Approval Process All a Big “Sham”; “The propaganda of big business is just overpowering”, etc, etc.
"The board should not follow DEQ's recommendation to issue the 401 certification until after DEQ performs its antidegradation analysis to assure that Virginia's streams and rivers are not harmed by the Atlantic Coast Pipeline." – Joe Lovett, Appalachian Mountain Advocates #NoACP pic.twitter.com/Y7miECOZDG
— Sierra Club Virginia (@VASierraClub) December 11, 2017
"Best management practices for erosion and sediment control won't work on steep slopes despite wishful thinking on DEQ's part…therefore you should deny with prejudice." – Kirk Bowers @VASierraClub #NoACP #WaterisLifeVA #NoPipelines pic.twitter.com/z8GfXtACcS
— Sierra Club Virginia (@VASierraClub) December 11, 2017
"Without review of specific stream crossings, baseline data and analysis of expected sediment additions…it is impossible for this Board to know whether there is reasonable assurance that water quality standards will not be violated." – Peter Anderson @AppVoices #NoACP pic.twitter.com/eEsuOR907c
— Sierra Club Virginia (@VASierraClub) December 11, 2017
"When you mess with karst it is always a gamble. What we do know is that there will be severe impact to our water quality. It is not a gamble Virginians should take." – Nancy Sorrells @co_alliance #NoACP #WaterisLifeVA #NoPipelines pic.twitter.com/yVn21rpyhC
— Sierra Club Virginia (@VASierraClub) December 11, 2017
"The Water Control Board cannot consider upland impacts separately from stream crossing…the Board must deny permits until they have all of the information necessary to cosider the holistic impacts the ACP would have on Virginia's waterways." – Jamshid Bakhtiari @CCAN #NoACP pic.twitter.com/HGheJJbflE
— Sierra Club Virginia (@VASierraClub) December 11, 2017
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