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The POWHR Newsletter Rundown
1. MVP's Lambert Compressor Station - Actions + More Info
2. Recap of POWHR's Shut It Down: MVP Protest Run Forum
3. News
4. Events
5. Did You Know?
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*not a photo of Lambert* Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance, 2020.
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MVP's LAMBERT COMPRESSOR STATION
Next week on July 7th, around 1 PM EST, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's Air Pollution Control Board will be tasked with approving or denying MVP's permit application to pollute the air via the Lambert Compressor Station in Pittsylvania County, VA.
Here's what you can do to stand against the approval of this air pollution permit:
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Sierra Club Virginia Chapter's:
Tell The Air Pollution Control Board: No Toxic Compressor Station
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7 Directions of Service + Mothers Out Front Hampton Roads':
Virginia Air Board: Deny MVP's Permit!
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Interested in showing solidarity with the folks fighting the Lambert Compressor Station, and want to come to Richmond next Wednesday July 7th to attend the Air Pollution Control Board meeting that will likely decide the permit? Did you send in a comment during the public comment period and therefore gain access to comment at the Air Board hearing -- and want to cede your minutes to an expert or local resident?
Sign up for this Air Board meeting preparation webinar HERE!
"Join us online July 1st to hone your public speaking skills for the upcoming Air Pollution Control Board Meeting! App Voices, Sierra Club, and Chesapeake Climate Action Network want to make sure you feel confident sharing your story in front of the board and demanding that the draft air permit for the proposed Lambert Compressor Station in Pittsylvania County, VA gets rejected. We'll have plenty of time for questions and practice. While open to all, this is geared specifically at those who commented during the initial public engagement period for the permit."
Access the Lambert Compressor Station Air Board Hearing Social Media Toolkit! Here's an article about the Air Board and DEQ's struggle with public engagement.
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RECAP
Shut It Down: MVP Protest Run Forum Discussion
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Photo by Matthew Pickett
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Did you miss our awesome event last week? No worries - you can watch the replay here.
Thank you to all those who shared, donated and amplified the GoFundMe. With your help the MVP Protest Run GoFundMe recently topped the final goal of $15,000, with funds benefitting the Monacan Indian Nation Cultural Foundation and POWHR. The fundraising goal was originally $6,000, and with their incredible advocacy, the MVP Protest Runners were able to raise their fundraising goal twice with generous community support - raising more than double their original goal.
We express our gratitude to the MVP Protest Runners for undertaking this incredible project, and for the stories they shared. We thank members of the Monacan Indian Nation and the representatives from the Board of Directors of the Monacan Indian Nation Cultural Foundation for the good work they are doing in their communities and beyond, as well as for their presence at the event and sharing about their experience with the run. We thank all those of you who have been engaged in the MVP fight and supported this project in innumerable ways - the MVP Protest Run could not have happened without you. To those who are just learning of the MVP or are looking for ways to get involved - we welcome you.
As we learn and continue this fight against the MVP, we invite you to use this document of resources as a springboard for learning, acting, and finding solidarity with other pipeline/fossil fuel infrastructure fights. You can find all the resources mentioned in the event here.
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POWHR published a sharable infographic about legal cases challenging MVP's unlawful permits - check it out, use it, share it!
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- The Roanoke Times - Majors and Jarrell: Wake up to injustice of MVP
- "In light of the necessarily rapid change of energy policy in a climate emergency, why would any public servant allow a private, out of state, “self-insured” LLC, with no named employees, continue to destroy over 300 miles of Appalachian mountains, forest, water and air — and farms, homeplaces, culture and legacy — the very fabric of communities?"
- The Roanoke Times - PHOTO ESSAY - Old Hills and Old Folks Resist
- Appalachians Against Pipelines Facebook - Coverage of "Old Hills and Old Folks Resisting the MVP"
- The Appalachian Voice - Agencies Weigh Mountain Valley Pipeline Water Crossing Permits
- Utility Dive - FERC just established an Office of Public Participation. Why did it take 40 years?
- Charleston Gazette-Mail - Public comment hearing on Mountain Valley Pipeline water permit focuses on past water violations, economic impact
- HEATED World - In the face of crisis, more delay
- The New York Times - Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard
- Elsevier Energy Policy - Recycled text and risk communication in natural gas pipeline environmental impact assessments
- Center for Western Priorities - Look West Monthly Update [deals with climate change, public lands, BLM, DOI, USFS, NPS, FWS and other topics with national impact]
- Reuters - New Jersey Loses at Supreme Court Bid to Stop Pipeline
- Pipeline Fighter's Hub - EXTRACTED: Daily News Clips 6/30/2021 [chock full of good stuff!]
- Bloomberg Green - Why Methane is Climate's Low-hanging, Invisible Fruit
- Aakshi Agarwal, Yale University - Regulatory Agency Capture: How the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Approved the Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Friends of the Central Shenandoah - Response to Comments Submitted by Dominion Energy South Carolina and Public Service Company of North Carolina, in Support of Amendment Application
- "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled in the Spire STL pipeline case that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission “ignored record evidence of self-dealing and failed to seriously and thoroughly conduct the interest-balancing required by its own Certificate Policy Statement.” 23 The same could be said about the approval of the MVP and Southgate. The MVP and Southgate approvals should be re-examined to determine if the Commission’s Certificate Policy was properly followed in certifying these projects before a Certificate Amendment is approved."
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J30 Amplification Toolkit! Today, Indigenous leaders, climate activists and working people are at the White House to demand President Biden stop dirty fossil fuel projects in all our communities, from Line 3 to the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and beyond, and prioritize climate, racial justice, Indigenous rights, housing justice, and transit justice in the infrastructure discussions.
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Air Pollution Control Board Hearing
July 7th, 10:00 AM - Unknown ET
The Air Pollution Control Board is tasked with deciding the MVP Lambert Compressor Station air permit [to pollute] at this meeting.
Read more about how to show up in solidarity against the MVP Lambert Compressor Station in the first part of the newsletter!
Prep meeting July 1 HERE
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The Water Quilt Project Convergence
July 10th, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
Water Quilt Project Convergence at the Newport Community Center, 434 Blue Grass Trail, Newport, VA 24128. Over 80 squares were created and have now been assembled into three beautiful water quilts as a way to honor and protect the waterways threatened by the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Mountain Valley Southgate. Outdoors/Pandemic Safe Protocols. Join ARTivism Virginia and members of the SUN SiNG Collective in a gathering of story and song. Project creators will speak and all of us together will add finishing touches and make future plans for our Water Quilts. Event link here
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No MVP/No MVP Southgate Indigenous People's Gathering
August 28th - Save the Date
From 7 Directions of Service - "We cannot stand by and watch a fossil fuel corporation, and politicians line their pockets as so much is destroyed, producing fracked gas we don’t need. On August 28-29, we will gather in Northern North Carolina, close to the border, to tell the world that the days this gas pipeline ends. Stay tuned for more information."
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Have you been keeping track of the Biden Administration's Domestic Violent Extremist strategy?
Well, the March 2021 report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence titled 'Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021' has some pretty 'interesting' language, and the official 'strategy' was unveiled in June...
The domestic violent extremist definition (below) probably makes sense until you get to this sentence "mere advocacy of political or social positions, political activism, use of strong rhetoric...may not constitute violent extremism, and may be constitutionally protected." [emphasis ours]
Images below are from the: March 2021 report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence titled 'Domestic Violent Extremism Poses Heightened Threat in 2021'
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Here's some more coverage...
Center for Strategic and International Studies - The First U.S. National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism
The New York Times - White House Unveils Strategy to Combat Domestic Extremism
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