Federal Agency Reps & Officials: Tell FERC to do a PEIS for Virginia Pipelines
To: Federal Agency Representatives
Department of Energy - Rickey R. Hass, Acting Inspector General
Environmental Protection Agency- Shawn M. Garvin, Regional Administrator
United States Forest Service – H. Thomas Speaks, Jr., Forest Supervisor
Bureau of Land Management – Dean S. Gettinger, District Manager
To: Elected Federal Officials
U.S. Senators: Tim Kaine and Mark Warner
U.S. Representatives: Robert Hurt, Randy Forbes, Morgan Griffith, Bob Goodlatte, Rob Wittman, Scott Rigell, Robert Scott, Dave Brat, Don Beyer, Barbara Comstock, Gerry Connolly
CC: FERC Secretary Bose and Commissioner Bay
Dear Federal Agency Representative or Elected Official:
In the past year, developers have proposed four large-diameter, high-pressure natural gas transmission lines through the steep slopes and large un-fragmented National Forests of the central Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountain region of Virginia. The construction and long term economic, health, and safety impacts of these projects on residents and the millions of Virginians that rely on the mountains’ headwaters and recreational opportunities are likely to be considerable. Given the scale, regional proximity, and similar purpose of the four proposed pipeline projects, the only way to accurately assess the impacts and alternatives—and the fundamental need for so many, is to evaluate them together.
We are asking for your help now to ensure a thorough regulatory process that will protect Virginians from needless harm.
Please urge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to conduct a single, comprehensive regional review of all four interstate natural gas pipeline projects currently proposed for the central Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountain region of Virginia and West Virginia—the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the Appalachian Connector Pipeline, and the WB Express Project.
This Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) must comprehensively evaluate the need for these four pipelines; assess the direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts of overall pipeline development in this region; and fully consider all reasonable, less-damaging alternatives in a single document.
Separate analyses of these pipelines is analogous to a transportation “planning” process that allowed private turnpike companies to build large highways through our region with no entrance or exit ramps and no overall sense of which highways are most needed—with private companies taking property from local residents and businesses and reaping all the profit.
This common sense reality is recognized by the National Environmental Policy Act and affirmed by the courts: FERC must evaluate the impacts of related projects with cumulative impacts proposed or reasonably foreseeable in the same geographic region in a single comprehensive EIS. Please minimize the damage these pipelines would cause to the rural heritage, environment, property rights, and property values of Virginians by insisting that FERC follow the law and conduct a PEIS.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
October 28, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
October 19, 2015
122 Comments
It's only reasonable to consider all pipelines and their impact on the states they cross. Seeing them piecemeal is like putting blinders on a horse; controls the horse but does nothing to mitigate danger out of his peripheral vision
Destruction to the environment must be minimized. With at least three pipelines preparing to destroy critical habitat and people's farms and businesses, a PEIS for Virginia is the least that FERC can do.
As a Nelson County resident in my first year of owning a home I am deeply concerned with the proposed ACP and desperately hope it will not be approved. Please consider the long term environmental impacts and that of the health of residents.
the ACP cannot be built without devastating the rural communities and the environment along it's path without benefit to few other than the end users. It is a land grab that overly burdens the rural people of WV,VA and NC.
Because the Government has given the federal powers of eminent domain to multiple pipeline companies, it is like dealing with multiple governments. If they will not cooperate with each other, they should at least be evaluated together. They should not be allowed to divide the government.
Please help save Virginia and Bath County from pipelines!
The 4 pipelines proposed for Virginia - Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), Appalachian Connector, and expansion of the Columbia Gas line, would release 209 million tons of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere per year - more than 4 times the total emissions from all large point sources in Virginia listed in EPA's 2014 Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. The Virginia Chapter's report recommends the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) consider the impact of those emissions in relation the the US commitments to meet the UN-FCCC Paris Accord and carry out a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) on all projects proposed in this region of the US. The Sierra Club i trust. Dominion i do not. Please request a PEIS. Thank you.
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Federal Agency Reps & Officials: Tell FERC to do a PEIS for Virginia Pipelines
To: Federal Agency Representatives
Department of Energy - Rickey R. Hass, Acting Inspector General
Environmental Protection Agency- Shawn M. Garvin, Regional Administrator
United States Forest Service – H. Thomas Speaks, Jr., Forest Supervisor
Bureau of Land Management – Dean S. Gettinger, District Manager
To: Elected Federal Officials
U.S. Senators: Tim Kaine and Mark Warner
U.S. Representatives: Robert Hurt, Randy Forbes, Morgan Griffith, Bob Goodlatte, Rob Wittman, Scott Rigell, Robert Scott, Dave Brat, Don Beyer, Barbara Comstock, Gerry Connolly
CC: FERC Secretary Bose and Commissioner Bay
Dear Federal Agency Representative or Elected Official:
In the past year, developers have proposed four large-diameter, high-pressure natural gas transmission lines through the steep slopes and large un-fragmented National Forests of the central Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountain region of Virginia. The construction and long term economic, health, and safety impacts of these projects on residents and the millions of Virginians that rely on the mountains’ headwaters and recreational opportunities are likely to be considerable. Given the scale, regional proximity, and similar purpose of the four proposed pipeline projects, the only way to accurately assess the impacts and alternatives—and the fundamental need for so many, is to evaluate them together.
We are asking for your help now to ensure a thorough regulatory process that will protect Virginians from needless harm.
Please urge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to conduct a single, comprehensive regional review of all four interstate natural gas pipeline projects currently proposed for the central Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountain region of Virginia and West Virginia—the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the Appalachian Connector Pipeline, and the WB Express Project.
This Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) must comprehensively evaluate the need for these four pipelines; assess the direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts of overall pipeline development in this region; and fully consider all reasonable, less-damaging alternatives in a single document.
Separate analyses of these pipelines is analogous to a transportation “planning” process that allowed private turnpike companies to build large highways through our region with no entrance or exit ramps and no overall sense of which highways are most needed—with private companies taking property from local residents and businesses and reaping all the profit.
This common sense reality is recognized by the National Environmental Policy Act and affirmed by the courts: FERC must evaluate the impacts of related projects with cumulative impacts proposed or reasonably foreseeable in the same geographic region in a single comprehensive EIS. Please minimize the damage these pipelines would cause to the rural heritage, environment, property rights, and property values of Virginians by insisting that FERC follow the law and conduct a PEIS.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
October 28, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
October 19, 2015
122 Comments
To have four pipelines in this area will have a much wider range of impacts than would just one pipeline. So it should be FERC's responsibility to examine these cumulative impacts through a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS).
It's only reasonable to consider all pipelines and their impact on the states they cross. Seeing them piecemeal is like putting blinders on a horse; controls the horse but does nothing to mitigate danger out of his peripheral vision
Destruction to the environment must be minimized. With at least three pipelines preparing to destroy critical habitat and people's farms and businesses, a PEIS for Virginia is the least that FERC can do.
As a Nelson County resident in my first year of owning a home I am deeply concerned with the proposed ACP and desperately hope it will not be approved. Please consider the long term environmental impacts and that of the health of residents.
the ACP cannot be built without devastating the rural communities and the environment along it's path without benefit to few other than the end users. It is a land grab that overly burdens the rural people of WV,VA and NC.
Because the Government has given the federal powers of eminent domain to multiple pipeline companies, it is like dealing with multiple governments. If they will not cooperate with each other, they should at least be evaluated together. They should not be allowed to divide the government.
Please help save Virginia and Bath County from pipelines!
The 4 pipelines proposed for Virginia - Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), Appalachian Connector, and expansion of the Columbia Gas line, would release 209 million tons of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere per year - more than 4 times the total emissions from all large point sources in Virginia listed in EPA's 2014 Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. The Virginia Chapter's report recommends the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) consider the impact of those emissions in relation the the US commitments to meet the UN-FCCC Paris Accord and carry out a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) on all projects proposed in this region of the US. The Sierra Club i trust. Dominion i do not. Please request a PEIS. Thank you.
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To have four pipelines in this area will have a much wider range of impacts than would just one pipeline. So it should be FERC's responsibility to examine these cumulative impacts through a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS).