Bath County Meeting on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Scheduled

ACP will disturb 550 miles of terrain

Bath County Meeting on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Scheduled

>>> Press release below on Community meeting in Bath County, Virginia, regarding Dominion’s new and not improved route! We will also be scheduling a meeting soon in the Snowshoe area …

A public meeting to discuss the potential impacts of the newly proposed route of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) will be held on Thursday, February 25, 7:30 pm at the Hot Springs Fire Department and Rescue Squad, 2670 Main Street, Hot Springs, VA. The meeting is sponsored by the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance (ABRA), a coalition of 45 organizations in Virginia and West Virginia who are addressing the proposed natural gas pipeline. All interested persons are invited to attend.

Presentations will be made by: Lewis Freeman, Chair/Executive Director of ABRA; Rick Lambert, a member of the Virginia Cave Board; and Joe Lovett, Executive Director of Appalachian Mountain Advocates, a Lewisburg, WV-based public interest law firm. A question and answer period will follow the presentations.

On February 12 Dominion Transmission, Inc., managing partner for the ACP, announced it was proposing a new route for the pipeline project that would enter Bath County at the intersection of U.S. 220 and the county line with Highland County, heading southeast through the county, and then directing north into the Deerfield Valley in western Augusta County.

ABRA released a statement about the new route noting that it “would traverse some of the most concentrated karst topography in the Allegheny region.” Continuing:

“A pipeline through this area would significantly increase the likelihood of catastrophic erosion and sediment pollution of several significant waterways. Furthermore, the new route opens up to potential devastation a whole new set of cultural and natural resources. The many newly affected landowners and local officials must be carefully consulted before the project should be allowed to continue with the FERC process.Once again, Dominion has proposed a route without thinking through or understanding the environmental and other consequences of its decision.”

Questions about the February 25 meeting should be directed to Lewis Freeman at lewfreeman@gmail.com or 540-468-2769.

Here is a link to the proposed Dominion ACP route change. It would come close to Snowshoe and cut across the Greenbrier River near Clover Lick.

Details are also available on our Facebook page “Greenbrier Watershed,” from the Greenbrier River Watershed Association in West Virginia.