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Update 298

ABRA End of the Year Report for 2020

WE WON!

Those two words best summarize the 2020 accomplishments of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance.  Our coalition’s 6+ year effort to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was an achievement for which the dozens of member organizations and thousands of volunteers working within the ABRA umbrella can proudly claim credit. 

Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Pipeline Updates Read more

Talk About Being Out of Touch with the News!

The November 19 “Presidents Update” blog by the President and CEO of the Hampton Roads Chamber Commerce, Bryan Stephens, celebrates the “recent common-sense ruling from the Supreme Court of the United States” in permitting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to cross underneath the Appalachian Trail. 

Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020 Pipeline Updates Read more

ACP Restoration Plans Still Somewhere on the Drawing Board

The restoration plans for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, requested on October 27 by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and due by December 26, are still – as of this writing – somewhere in the works.  Plans for what to do about the unfinished Supply Header Project,

Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020 Pipeline Updates Read more

Forest Service supports Mountain Valley Pipeline route through Jefferson National Forest

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  • – Charleston Gazette-Mail – 12/11/20
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  • Trump administration rams through final Forest Service analysis of controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline
Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020 Regional & MVP, Regional Issues Read more

DEQ ignores its duties, again

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  • – Virginia Mercury – 12/8/20
Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020 Local & ACP, Regional Issues Read more

Panel again hears environmental concerns about Mountain Valley Pipeline

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  • – The Roanoke Times – 12/9/20
Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020 Regional & MVP, Regional Issues Read more

Federal regulators are rewriting environmental rules so a massive pipeline can be built across West Virginia

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  • – Mountain State Spotlight – 12/8/20
Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020 Regional & MVP, Regional Issues Read more

Ted Boettner: Embracing clean energy vital to WV’s future

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  • – Charleston Gazette-Mail – 12/5/20
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Naval power plant proposal tests Virginia on environmental justice

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  • – Bay Journal – 12/9/20
Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020 Local & ACP, Regional Issues Read more

Despite setbacks for new natural gas projects, companies push forward with plans

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  • – Virginia Mercury – 12/16/20
Daniel Shaffer December 21, 2020 Local & ACP, Regional Issues Read more
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The Allegheny Blue-Ridge Alliance (ABRA) is a coalition of organizations concerned about the natural gas pipeline that Dominion Resources and its partner companies have proposed to build through portions of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina.

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