What started out for Abby Riggleman as helping a friend with a class project at James Madison University turned into contributing to a 23-minute documentary that now is being shown all over Virginia and even winning awards.
Wintergreen Resort officially announced its opposition to the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Memorial Day at a meeting attended by more than 550 Wintergreen property owners and members. Wintergreen General Manager Hank Theiss said the purpose of the meeting was to bring people together to understand the resort’s position and to provide an opportunity for information of the path and its likely impacts.
The Nelson County Board of Supervisors is looking into whether the county would need a permit to allow construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline because the proposed route lies in a regulated floodplain.
The proposed route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is being changed in two counties where the $5 billion project has faced the most opposition. Dominion Resources Inc. announced Monday that the planned natural gas pipeline was shifting to a more-southern alternative route in Augusta and Nelson counties where it would cross the crest of the Blue Ridge, the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Appalachian Trail.
Business and landowners in the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline are worried about how their real estate and property values would be impacted by the Dominion Resources project that would run from West Virginia through Nelson County and into North Carolina.
The eco-subdivision of Horizons Village in Nellysford is a unique community that holds legally binding covenants designed to protect environmental features of the 400-acre neighborhood located in the George Washington National Forest and the Rockfish Valley. Tree clearing is limited to no more than 40 percent per lot and even then comes with restrictions.
The Wintergreen Property Owners Association has joined opposition to the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The property owners association submitted a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission April 17 asking for an extension of at least 30 days for the agency’s 60-day scoping period for the project, which ended Tuesday.
Some Nelson County residents who have denied permission to have their land surveyed for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline may no longer face legal action — for now. Due to a technical issue, some of the initial letters sent to landowners along the pipeline requesting permission to survey were addressed from Dominion Transmission Inc. instead of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Dominion spokesman Jim Norvelle said last week.
Local and state officials have sent letters to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission questioning its policies and asking for additional time and opportunity to weigh in on the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, sent a letter to FERC chairwoman Cheryl LaFleur on March 23 questioning the policies and procedures in which the agency reviews and receives comments from residents who would be affected by proposed natural gas pipelines.
The Nelson County Board of Supervisors is petitioning Dominion Resources to minimize the use of eminent domain to acquire personal property while planning for the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The resolution, passed in a 3-2 vote last Tuesday, formally asks Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to consider a preferred route that would minimize eminent domain acquisitions.