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  • The League Line: Fall 2021

    • Cover: BREDL welcomes Kathy Andrews as new executive director
    • TVA retains ownership of the Bellefonte Nuclear Plant site – Agency will not request any new licensing by Sandy Kurtz, BREDL Co-President
    • The 1,4 Dioxane Dilemma by Therese Vick
    • Roanoke County Supervisor takes action on MVP by Ann Rogers
    • BREDL welcomes new chapter Coalition for a Clean Dan River Region by Julie Owen, CCDRR Director
    • People vs. Fossil Fuels pictorial
    • “In honor of a Code Red Warning, I Harken Thee” – a poem by Frank McManus

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  • Riverneck-Kingsburg Pipeline Project, Public Notice No. SAC 2019-01427

    Dear Mr. Wenerick:

    On behalf of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and its members in South
    Carolina, I write to provide comments on Dominion Energy’s proposed Riverneck-
    Kingsburg pipeline project, PN # SAC-2019-01427. These remarks will supplement the
    comments filed today on our behalf by the South Carolina Environmental Law Project
    (“SCELP”).

    In sum, we oppose the granting of the nationwide permit, NWP-12, for this project. Also,
    we hereby request that an extension of the comment period be granted and that a public
    hearing be held on this matter.

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  • Small pipeline, large worries for some S. Carolina residents – ABC27

    PAMPLICO, S.C. (AP) — The land agent who arrived at Reatha Jefferson’s door in May, unannounced and unmasked in the middle of the pandemic, told her he was giving her one more chance.

    The agent was there on behalf of Virginia-based utility giant Dominion Energy. He wanted to see if Jefferson would let Dominion run a new natural gas pipeline through the land her great-grandfather, a rural Black farmer, had bought more than a century ago in Pamplico, South Carolina.

    Jefferson sent the agent away and in July, the utility served her with court papers in an attempt to use eminent domain to build the pipeline.

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