All Virginians need to stand up and fight the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline projects.
Dominion Resources is proposing the Atlantic Coast pipeline project, and the Mountain Valley pipeline project is being proposed by EQT Midstream Partners.
Dominion Resources and EQT have not compellingly demonstrated the need for the additional natural gas capacity in Virginia. And to make matters worse, that natural gas wouldn’t even be used for Virginian homes – the gas will run through the Commonwealth and be sent to Japan and India for export.
The project will massively increase Virginia’s carbon footprint, and destroy protected wilderness areas, as well as state and federal parks.
Hardworking Virginians are going to end up paying for these unnecessary projects through higher power bills, in spite of the lack of economic benefit for Virginia, and if anything goes wrong with the pipeline, thousands of those Virginians will be in the ‘incineration zone’ – an area where all life would be incinerated if the pipeline explodes.
The Water is Life Rally is happening in Richmond on December 2 from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., and all those that can attend should.
Virginians need to fight back hard against these projects that are not only unnecessary – they’re dangerous.
The State Water Control Board’s meetings on December 6 and 7 and December 11 and 12 for the pipeline projects, to speak to the fate of the projects, and we all need to attend and speak on our concerns about how these projects hurt our communities.
Delegate-Elect Lee Carter is the newly elected delegate for Virginia’s 50th House district, which encompasses the City of Manassas and some western parts of Prince William County.