Podcasts about Atlantic Coast Pipeline

It's been nearly five years since Dominion Energy pulled the plug on a $2.8 billion dollar project – the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Today, the author of a book on that subject shares lessons from the ACP and warns the nation faces another dash for gas.  Sandy Hausman has that story.

Many pipelines have been protested, but few have been defeated. Jonathan Mingle says the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in 2020 is a story of collaboration between local activists and the Southern Environmental Law Center. And: Oil was first discovered in Louisiana at the turn of the 20th century. Suddenly, even the most unassuming plots of land could be worth millions. But Henry Wiencek says not everyone with oil on their property got rich. Later in the show: In the 1970's, Rae Ely fought tooth and nail to protect her bucolic hometown from developers. Brian Balogh says Rae wasn't well versed in politics, but she stood up to powerful politicians and business leaders to stop plans for a prison facility and vermiculite mine in her community. Plus: Palm oil is the distinct flavor of Afro-Brazilian cooking. It's used in all kinds of traditional dishes and even as an offering to religious deities. Case Watkins says the Afro-Brazilian relationship to palm oil has a lot to teach us about environmental and climate justice.

Jonathan Mingle is a freelance journalist and the author of a new book, “Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future," which documents how Virginia communities pushed back against Dominion Power's Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project. Visit the It's All Journalism website to find out how to subscribe to our podcast and weekly email newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That surveyors will be coming out soon. That they have the legal right to do so, whether you like it or not, because this project is in the 'public interest.'" That's how journalist Jonathan Mingle describes the letter that people in rural Virginia received in 2014 from Dominion Energy, one of the biggest power companies in the country. Dominion was planning to construct the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which would carry natural gas over some 600 miles. What happened next is not how most David vs. Goliath stories end. People in the rural communities organized, mobilized, and fought back. The battle raged for six years until the pipeline was canceled in 2020. Jonathan Mingle tells this dramatic story of climate change and resistance in his new book, “Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future.”Mingle, who lives in Lincoln, has traveled to distant corners of the world to chronicle the impacts of climate change and those who are fighting to stop it. In 2015, he published "Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity and Survival on the Roof of the World," about his travels to the former Buddhist kingdom of Zanskar in northern India. He wrote about what is happening as Himalayan glaciers dry up and drought spreads.Mingle has also reported on Vermont's struggle to fund its rural schools and about how the July 2023 floods showed that Vermont is not immune from climate chaos.“This idea that you could somehow escape the impacts of climate change is a delusion,” he said about Vermont's recent experience with flooding.Mingle said that the people who fought and won against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline demonstrated that “the most overlooked climate solution is solidarity. And we're going to need it to adapt to climate change.” 

Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.“These long-lived connections provide a radically different example of the insight from one of the characters created by my fellow Southerner William Faulkner: 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'And similarly long chains reach from the present into the future. Conventionally, we tend to think that the future is yet to be born or is even only just beginning to be conceived. But the climate future was already beginning to take shape when humans started centuries ago to inject more carbon into the atmosphere than the usual climate dynamics could handle in the usual ways, and climate parameters were forced to start changing. The vast and accelerating carbon emissions of the late 20th century and the early 21st century are building minimum floors under the extent of climate change in future centuries, barring radically innovative corrections of kinds that may or may not be possible.[Timothy Mitchell has written:]'The modes of common life that have arisen largely within the last one hundred years, and whose intensity has accelerated only since 1945, are shaping the planet for the next one thousand years, and perhaps the next 50,000.' The future is not inaccessible – we hold its fundamental parameters in our hands, and we are shaping them now. In this respect, the future is not unborn–it's not even future.”– The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Nowwww.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

“These long-lived connections provide a radically different example of the insight from one of the characters created by my fellow Southerner William Faulkner: 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'And similarly long chains reach from the present into the future. Conventionally, we tend to think that the future is yet to be born or is even only just beginning to be conceived. But the climate future was already beginning to take shape when humans started centuries ago to inject more carbon into the atmosphere than the usual climate dynamics could handle in the usual ways, and climate parameters were forced to start changing. The vast and accelerating carbon emissions of the late 20th century and the early 21st century are building minimum floors under the extent of climate change in future centuries, barring radically innovative corrections of kinds that may or may not be possible.[Timothy Mitchell has written:]'The modes of common life that have arisen largely within the last one hundred years, and whose intensity has accelerated only since 1945, are shaping the planet for the next one thousand years, and perhaps the next 50,000.' The future is not inaccessible – we hold its fundamental parameters in our hands, and we are shaping them now. In this respect, the future is not unborn–it's not even future.”– The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right NowHenry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

“Well, it's because of the situation we face. We can tell from the science that we have to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050. And common sense tells you that bringing them down for the second 50% is going to be harder than the first 50%. So we have to take care of the first 50% by about 2030, and it's 2023 already. We literally must - if we're going to keep climate change from becoming even more dangerous than it is - is to do a very great deal in the next seven or eight years. And a huge amount between now and 2050. So it's not that this problem is the most important of all possible problems. There are other problems like preventing nuclear war, but this is a problem that either we get a grip on it now, or there's a real possibility that it will escape from our control. So, we need to be hardheaded about this and look very hard at what people are actually doing. Carbon credits could be a good thing, but they would need to be carefully regulated, and we would need institutions to police them and be sure people are actually doing what they say they're doing. And meanwhile, we should concentrate on reducing emissions because in theory, the carbon credits would get you to the same place but only if what they promised is actually delivered. And it very often isn't. There's a very recent study saying that something like 90% of promised carbon offsets are not actually being implemented. I don't know if it's that bad, but there's a lot of hanky-panky going on.”Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.“Well, it's because of the situation we face. We can tell from the science that we have to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050. And common sense tells you that bringing them down for the second 50% is going to be harder than the first 50%. So we have to take care of the first 50% by about 2030, and it's 2023 already. We literally must - if we're going to keep climate change from becoming even more dangerous than it is - is to do a very great deal in the next seven or eight years. And a huge amount between now and 2050. So it's not that this problem is the most important of all possible problems. There are other problems like preventing nuclear war, but this is a problem that either we get a grip on it now, or there's a real possibility that it will escape from our control. So, we need to be hardheaded about this and look very hard at what people are actually doing. Carbon credits could be a good thing, but they would need to be carefully regulated, and we would need institutions to police them and be sure people are actually doing what they say they're doing. And meanwhile, we should concentrate on reducing emissions because in theory, the carbon credits would get you to the same place but only if what they promised is actually delivered. And it very often isn't. There's a very recent study saying that something like 90% of promised carbon offsets are not actually being implemented. I don't know if it's that bad, but there's a lot of hanky-panky going on.”www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.“These long-lived connections provide a radically different example of the insight from one of the characters created by my fellow Southerner William Faulkner: 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'And similarly long chains reach from the present into the future. Conventionally, we tend to think that the future is yet to be born or is even only just beginning to be conceived. But the climate future was already beginning to take shape when humans started centuries ago to inject more carbon into the atmosphere than the usual climate dynamics could handle in the usual ways, and climate parameters were forced to start changing. The vast and accelerating carbon emissions of the late 20th century and the early 21st century are building minimum floors under the extent of climate change in future centuries, barring radically innovative corrections of kinds that may or may not be possible.[Timothy Mitchell has written:]'The modes of common life that have arisen largely within the last one hundred years, and whose intensity has accelerated only since 1945, are shaping the planet for the next one thousand years, and perhaps the next 50,000.' The future is not inaccessible – we hold its fundamental parameters in our hands, and we are shaping them now. In this respect, the future is not unborn–it's not even future.”– The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Nowwww.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

“These long-lived connections provide a radically different example of the insight from one of the characters created by my fellow Southerner William Faulkner: 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'And similarly long chains reach from the present into the future. Conventionally, we tend to think that the future is yet to be born or is even only just beginning to be conceived. But the climate future was already beginning to take shape when humans started centuries ago to inject more carbon into the atmosphere than the usual climate dynamics could handle in the usual ways, and climate parameters were forced to start changing. The vast and accelerating carbon emissions of the late 20th century and the early 21st century are building minimum floors under the extent of climate change in future centuries, barring radically innovative corrections of kinds that may or may not be possible.[Timothy Mitchell has written:]'The modes of common life that have arisen largely within the last one hundred years, and whose intensity has accelerated only since 1945, are shaping the planet for the next one thousand years, and perhaps the next 50,000.' The future is not inaccessible – we hold its fundamental parameters in our hands, and we are shaping them now. In this respect, the future is not unborn–it's not even future.”– The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right NowHenry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.“This distinction between subsistence emissions and luxury emissions was my main contribution to these debates. And it has recently been calculated that the richest 1% of people in the world produce more emissions than the bottom 50%. A whole lot more. And a lot of these emissions are by those of us who are in the richest 1%. And I'm probably one of those people. A lot of our emissions are from things we don't really need to do. We don't need to constantly fly for our vacations. We can walk in natural places near where we live, or at worst, we can drive in an electric car and so on. That of course means changing some of the things that we take for granted and noticing how great the emissions that they cause are and doing something to reduce our emissions.One thing we can do and which I've tried to do is spell out the ways in which this is an ethical or moral problem. People don't need philosophers to tell them that they're facing problems. I first became interested in this problem by talking to delegates from India who said, 'You people in the rich countries keep saying we have a problem. And our question is, who are we? You industrialized countries, and it's mainly the greenhouse gas from your industrialization that's created climate change. We haven't done that much industrialization yet.' This was 25 years ago. Of course, now India is beginning to industrialize, but their point then was, and it's still largely true, that a lot of the problems are going to hit countries that haven't caused climate change. And so this strikes people just intuitively as unfair.What a philosopher like me can do is just spell out exactly why it is unfair. It is unfair if one person causes a problem, and then someone else has to deal with it. That makes it as if the one who's dealing with it is the slave of the one who caused the problem. I make a mess. And then you have to clean it up. That's as if you worked for me. And that's really incompatible with equal respect for all human beings. And that's the sort of thing philosophers can spell out. And there is now a lot of good philosophical work being done spelling these things out.”www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.“These long-lived connections provide a radically different example of the insight from one of the characters created by my fellow Southerner William Faulkner: 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'And similarly long chains reach from the present into the future. Conventionally, we tend to think that the future is yet to be born or is even only just beginning to be conceived. But the climate future was already beginning to take shape when humans started centuries ago to inject more carbon into the atmosphere than the usual climate dynamics could handle in the usual ways, and climate parameters were forced to start changing. The vast and accelerating carbon emissions of the late 20th century and the early 21st century are building minimum floors under the extent of climate change in future centuries, barring radically innovative corrections of kinds that may or may not be possible.[Timothy Mitchell has written:]'The modes of common life that have arisen largely within the last one hundred years, and whose intensity has accelerated only since 1945, are shaping the planet for the next one thousand years, and perhaps the next 50,000.' The future is not inaccessible – we hold its fundamental parameters in our hands, and we are shaping them now. In this respect, the future is not unborn–it's not even future.”– The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Nowwww.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

“These long-lived connections provide a radically different example of the insight from one of the characters created by my fellow Southerner William Faulkner: 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.'And similarly long chains reach from the present into the future. Conventionally, we tend to think that the future is yet to be born or is even only just beginning to be conceived. But the climate future was already beginning to take shape when humans started centuries ago to inject more carbon into the atmosphere than the usual climate dynamics could handle in the usual ways, and climate parameters were forced to start changing. The vast and accelerating carbon emissions of the late 20th century and the early 21st century are building minimum floors under the extent of climate change in future centuries, barring radically innovative corrections of kinds that may or may not be possible.[Timothy Mitchell has written:]'The modes of common life that have arisen largely within the last one hundred years, and whose intensity has accelerated only since 1945, are shaping the planet for the next one thousand years, and perhaps the next 50,000.' The future is not inaccessible – we hold its fundamental parameters in our hands, and we are shaping them now. In this respect, the future is not unborn–it's not even future.”– The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right NowHenry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

“This distinction between subsistence emissions and luxury emissions was my main contribution to these debates. And it has recently been calculated that the richest 1% of people in the world produce more emissions than the bottom 50%. A whole lot more. And a lot of these emissions are by those of us who are in the richest 1%. And I'm probably one of those people. A lot of our emissions are from things we don't really need to do. We don't need to constantly fly for our vacations. We can walk in natural places near where we live, or at worst, we can drive in an electric car and so on. That of course means changing some of the things that we take for granted and noticing how great the emissions that they cause are and doing something to reduce our emissions.One thing we can do and which I've tried to do is spell out the ways in which this is an ethical or moral problem. People don't need philosophers to tell them that they're facing problems. I first became interested in this problem by talking to delegates from India who said, 'You people in the rich countries keep saying we have a problem. And our question is, who are we? You industrialized countries, and it's mainly the greenhouse gas from your industrialization that's created climate change. We haven't done that much industrialization yet.' This was 25 years ago. Of course, now India is beginning to industrialize, but their point then was, and it's still largely true, that a lot of the problems are going to hit countries that haven't caused climate change. And so this strikes people just intuitively as unfair.What a philosopher like me can do is just spell out exactly why it is unfair. It is unfair if one person causes a problem, and then someone else has to deal with it. That makes it as if the one who's dealing with it is the slave of the one who caused the problem. I make a mess. And then you have to clean it up. That's as if you worked for me. And that's really incompatible with equal respect for all human beings. And that's the sort of thing philosophers can spell out. And there is now a lot of good philosophical work being done spelling these things out.”Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

“Well, it's because of the situation we face. We can tell from the science that we have to reach zero carbon emissions by 2050. And common sense tells you that bringing them down for the second 50% is going to be harder than the first 50%. So we have to take care of the first 50% by about 2030, and it's 2023 already. We literally must - if we're going to keep climate change from becoming even more dangerous than it is - is to do a very great deal in the next seven or eight years. And a huge amount between now and 2050. So it's not that this problem is the most important of all possible problems. There are other problems like preventing nuclear war, but this is a problem that either we get a grip on it now, or there's a real possibility that it will escape from our control. So, we need to be hardheaded about this and look very hard at what people are actually doing. Carbon credits could be a good thing, but they would need to be carefully regulated, and we would need institutions to police them and be sure people are actually doing what they say they're doing. And meanwhile, we should concentrate on reducing emissions because in theory, the carbon credits would get you to the same place but only if what they promised is actually delivered. And it very often isn't. There's a very recent study saying that something like 90% of promised carbon offsets are not actually being implemented. I don't know if it's that bad, but there's a lot of hanky-panky going on.”Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

“When I was at my first university, it was thought of as one of the world's leading places in philosophy. And I learned to use the methods that were dominant there. When I went to the other university, the first seminar that I took was a critique of the methods that I had learned at the first university. And this made a big impression on me because I had left the one where I did the Masters thinking, 'Okay, I know how to do this now, I'm getting good at this.' But then I learned, actually, there are problems with this way of doing things, too. So what I learned from all this is not that no method works and nothing is worthwhile, but just that however good the methods of analysis one has at any given time They're not going to be perfect. And so one needs to keep some humility and keep an open mind and keep on learning and not assume that you're on top of things.So, one lesson I would draw for education is we really do need to teach people to think critically and not just try to pump them full of the beliefs that we think are right. And I do worry about the extent to which some topics are put sort of out of bounds at universities. We don't want to allow hate b behavior, but I think we also need to maintain free speech and enable people to think critically. And this is another of these tricky matters, but I think that's another balance we need to try to keep. Young people need to encounter nature to actually get out into it and see it and feel it and smell it, sense it. And one thing philosophers can do and are trying to do is to argue that value is not just value to humans, which would be a kind of instrumental value. Things can have value in themselves. The other is to try to find ways that especially young people actually experience nature.”Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

Henry Shue is Professor Emeritus of Politics and International Relations at University of Oxford's Merton College. He's the author of Basic Rights, as well as The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now, among many other publications. In 1976, he co-founded the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He was a supporter of the successful campaign by Virginia's Augusta County Alliance to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and now works primarily on explanations for the urgency of far more ambitious policies to eliminate fossil fuels in order to avoid irreversible damage for future generations.“When I was at my first university, it was thought of as one of the world's leading places in philosophy. And I learned to use the methods that were dominant there. When I went to the other university, the first seminar that I took was a critique of the methods that I had learned at the first university. And this made a big impression on me because I had left the one where I did the Masters thinking, 'Okay, I know how to do this now, I'm getting good at this.' But then I learned, actually, there are problems with this way of doing things, too. So what I learned from all this is not that no method works and nothing is worthwhile, but just that however good the methods of analysis one has at any given time They're not going to be perfect. And so one needs to keep some humility and keep an open mind and keep on learning and not assume that you're on top of things.So, one lesson I would draw for education is we really do need to teach people to think critically and not just try to pump them full of the beliefs that we think are right. And I do worry about the extent to which some topics are put sort of out of bounds at universities. We don't want to allow hate b behavior, but I think we also need to maintain free speech and enable people to think critically. And this is another of these tricky matters, but I think that's another balance we need to try to keep. Young people need to encounter nature to actually get out into it and see it and feel it and smell it, sense it. And one thing philosophers can do and are trying to do is to argue that value is not just value to humans, which would be a kind of instrumental value. Things can have value in themselves. The other is to try to find ways that especially young people actually experience nature.”www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-henry-shue https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691202280/basic-rights https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691226248/the-pivotal-generationwww.creativeprocess.info www.oneplanetpodcast.orgIG www.instagram.com/creativeprocesspodcast

From the Richmond Environmental Film Festival [powerpress]

Russia to cut oil output by 500,000 bpd in Marchhttps://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-cut-oil-output-by-500000-bpd-march-2023-02-10/-"As of today, we are fully selling the entire volume of oil produced, however, as stated earlier, we will not sell oil to those who directly or indirectly adhere to the principles of the 'price cap'," Novak said- Are they cutting to see who will pay above $60 and who will adhere to price cap?- Oil isn't up that much- Could be also to push customers to use all Russian servicesOil prices rise over 2% on Russian plan to cut outputhttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-dips-heads-weekly-gain-015302054.html- Goldman cut its oil forecast by $6/barrel- Waiting for Chinese demand to surge in order for crude oil to "break out"- What about rising tensions with China? Shouldn't that increase oil prices?Natural Gas: Fasten Your Seat Beltshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/natural-gas-fasten-your-seat-belts-5c0fcdf4- volatility is much more extreme in 2022 than in any other year- How much of that is due to Russia and the fact that we are WAY more dependent on natural gas than ever before?- We should be concerned about 2023/2024 winterSpecial Guest Ademiju Allen from Rystad to discuss the North American natural gas production and infrastructure.- Gas markets analysts on North American gas team with Rystad- Gas constraints in North AMerica. Appalachia largest resource in America, maybe in world? But not enough takeaway capacity. Atlantic Coast Pipeline cancellation was supposed to help but it was cancelled. Mountain Valley Pipeline also a problem- If gas can't get to where it needs to go, you will have a problem if temperatures are lower than average- Fortunately for weather in Northeast, seasonally mild winter and haven't seen structural impacts to gas consumption in region - Production has remained flat- Is next winter a concern? Storage is seasonally high, comparatively. Broken down regionally it's higher in south-central.- Lack of production wasn't just lack of takeaway but also supply chain issues.- May through September is the period we have to go through and see how much gas is going into storage to see how prices will react to milder or aggressive temperatures. Really hard to say what will happen next winter.- Natural gas prices on a basis. Situation in California is the opposite - they were elevated this winter for different reasons than northeast. - Cold snap over Christmas: utilities/independent system operators always SAY they are well prepared but every storm/event is different. PGM experienced issues with how freezing temps impacted equipment.- The Permian has two things going for it that Appalachia doesn't: proximity to export facilities and that it is mostly associated gas.- Minimal growth coming out of Appalachia year on year basis. Permian and Haynesville has potential for huge growth.- Permian will grow at pace that oil production economics and takeaway capacity allows them to grow.- Permian is producing record levels of gas, but takeaway for gas needs to be able to keep up and right now it's tight.- Is lack of takeaway capacity for gas impacting oil production growth due to regulations that prevent flaring? No evidence for that. Flaring mandates are being following by public operators but not private operators.- Private operators just pay the penalty on flaring.For more visit https://www.rystadenergy.com/North America Natural Gas SolutionGlobal Gas & LNG Solution This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit energyweek.substack.com

A task force to establish a civilian review board on police misconduct in Richmond presented their recommendations to City Council Monday afternoon; An investigation into the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline; Virginia's redistricting commission is shifting its region by region approach to focus on statewide maps; and other local news stories.

Police identify the man they shot to death after a hostage standoff in Luray… The General Assembly will meet in August to decide what to do with a huge budget surplus, but much of that money is already spoken for… In our latest local StoryCorps conversation, two women remember their fight against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline….

Police identify the man they shot to death after a hostage standoff in Luray… The General Assembly will meet in August to decide what to do with a huge budget surplus, but much of that money is already spoken for… In our latest local StoryCorps conversation, two women remember their fight against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline….

Today I welcome . . . DISABILITY JUSTICE AND COVID-19 Lakshmi Fjord, Elaine Gerber, Lenore Manderson. LAKSHMI FJORD, Ph.D. is an environmental justice anthropologist whose community participatory action research methods and evidence led to two historic legal precedents for environmental justice at the federal and Virginia state level. For the first time, a federal appeals court overturned the air permit to site the largest U.S. fracked gas compressor station in an 83% majority Freedmen descent community on the basis of environmental justice. This contributed to the cancellation of the $8 billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline. With Devva Kasnitz and Pam Block, Lakshmi was a foremother of Disability Studies in Anthropology, and Deaf Studies in Disability Studies. She organized the first AAA panel on Disability and Disasters immediately after Katrina in 2005, recruiting Elaine Gerber and Karen Nakamura. She now works in 4 Freedmen-built communities in Virginia facing imminent threats of new toxic polluting infrastructure. Elaine Gerber is a medical anthropologist and disability studies scholar at Montclair State University, and a former president of the Society for Disability Studies.  Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, she served for five years as the Senior Research Associate for the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) and taught in the graduate program in Disability Studies at the City University of New York. Her work examines the intersection between culture and the body, initially with a focus on women’s reproductive health, and more recently, on disability. Current projects revolve around food insecurity and disablement, audio description, and cultures of ableism. There are both theoretical contributions and practical applications to her work.   LENORE MANDERSON is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, and an NRF A-rated scholar. She holds appointments also with Brown University, US, and Monash University, Australia. Known internationally for her work on inequality, social exclusion and the impact of compromised health and embodied difference in Australia, Southeast and East Asia, and Africa, she has published some 750 books, articles, book chapters and reports in these and other areas. She chairs the External Review Group of the Social Innovations in Health Initiative of TDR (2015-) and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). She was awarded the Society of Medical Anthropology Career Achievement Award in 2016, and in January 2020 was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia.

Leaders in Virginia continue to react to the guilty verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin; Blind voters in the commonwealth will now have a permanent option to cast an absentee ballot; Officials in Nelson County support the removal of easements following the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline; And, for the first time, siblings have won top prizes at this year’s Piedmont Regional Science Fair

In today’s Patreon fueled shout-out: The Local Energy Alliance Program, your local energy nonprofit, wants to help you lower your energy bills, make your home more comfortable, and save energy. Schedule your Home Energy Check-Up to get started - now only $45 for City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County residents. You’ll receive energy-saving products and expert advice customized to your needs. Sign up today!In today’s newsletter:Albemarle zoning appeals board upholds North Pointe construction entranceSupervisor Donna Price talks budget, broadband, Biscuit Run Local Food Hub to continue drive-through markets each Today is the last day to comment on a draft affordable housing plan for CharlottesvilleToday the Virginia Department of Health reports 2,417 new cases of COVID-19 in Virginia, and the seven-day average for positive PCR tests has increased to 8.3 percent. Governor Ralph Northam is scheduled to address the Commonwealth at 2 p.m. today. He is not expected to announce any new restrictions, according to a tweet from NBC12 reporter Henry Graff. Source: Virginia Department of Health*The Albemarle Board of Zoning Appeals has ruled that a temporary construction road for the North Pointe development is compliant with the county’s rules and regulations. A former county employee who lives on Pritchett Lane had argued that the original zoning had not authorized the use of his road for construction traffic. “When I worked in zoning for almost 14 years I was taught by the previous zoning administrator and the county attorney that you must always find where a proposed use is allowed, not prohibited because the zoning ordinance is an inclusive ordinance,” said Stewart Wright, adding that his interpretation of the code was that nothing was written down to allow the road to be used for construction traffic. “Construction access points along Pritchett Lane were never proposed by the developer, they were not shown as an element of the approved application plan, and therefore were never reviewed by staff, the Planning Commission, or the Board of Supervisors,” Payne said. The current zoning administrator, Bart Svoboda, had a different interpretation. “There was no prohibition to prohibit construction access on Pritchett Lane,” said Bart Svoboda, the county’s zoning administrator. Deputy county attorney Andy Herrick agreed. “I appreciate the appellant’s frustration and I am sure that the residents of Pritchett Lane don’t appreciate the additional construction traffic and I certainly sympathize with that, but I would say that the unmet expectations there are the result of a fundamental misunderstanding of the special use permit conditions,” said deputy county attorney Andy Herrick. Several people spoke during the public hearing, but the Board of Zoning Appeals must make their rulings based on interpretation of the code, and not public opinion. BZA member Marcia Joseph said she lives across the street from an active construction site and understands the frustration. However, she said that construction entrances are often depicted as part of the erosion and sediment control plan.  That was the case with North Pointe, according to testimony from David Mitchell with the firm Great Eastern Management Company. “The contractor, Faulconer Construction, they got a land use permit from VDOT and they have permission from VDOT to enter at that point and presumably VDOT has assessed that is an acceptable location,” Mitchell said. The BZA voted 5-0 to uphold the county’s determination. Credit: Stewart Wright*It has been over a year since Donna Price was elected to represent the Scottsville Magisterial District on the Albemarle Board of Supervisors, and by now she and her fellow Supervisors would have had held several town hall meetings. However, the pandemic has put that on hold until now. Last night, Price became the second Supervisor to hold a virtual event to take questions from constituents and to give fiscal updates.“We are just at the early stages of preparing our budget for next year,” Price said. “There is great uncertainty as to what that budget will actually end up being. The county gets most of its revenue through property taxes and while residential real estate seems to be doing quite well at the market, that does not necessarily means all of our owners of residential property are equally doing as well financially.” Price said the recent announcement by State Farm that its workers will continue to work remotely and not at the operations center is a demonstration that the market for commercial real estate may be dropping. During the hour-long session, Price said she had concerns about converting agricultural lands to solar panel fields, wants the county to do more to help provide more rural broadband, and that the county should update a policy that discourages building cell towers. “I would rather see a cell tower on a hill and know that my neighbors have the ability to call 9-11 in an emergency and have access to the Internet or their business or their child’s schooling,” Price said. Price also announced that Southern Development has asked to defer a hearing on the Breezy Hill rezoning near Glenmore from December 16 to January 20. She said she would want any altered proposal to go back to the Planning Commission. Someone asked Price why the county was taking on opening of a park at Biscuit Run. The land had been slated for development, but was purchased by-then Governor Tim Kaine in late 2009 in order to become a park. In January 2018, the county agreed to take on the responsibility and leased the park from the state. The construction of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was to have brought $5 million to help pay for its infrastructure, but that project has been canceled. Price said eventually the county will find a way to proceed.“In time, and it’s not going to be this year or next year, but in time, Biscuit Run will be for Albemarle County what First Landing State Park has been to Virginia Beach, and I think we just have to be patient and continue to work the success that I really think we’re going to be able to get.”Price said supported an idea from one attendee that a nature education center be included at Biscuit Run, but said that might not be in the first iteration of the park when it is able to open. *The Charlottesville-Albemarle Metropolitan Planning Organization met yesterday and adopted a new version of its plan to ensure environmental justice for different groups of people. However, there will be a more complete review of the MPO’s Title VI document in the near future.“We are going to do a study on equity in transportation to learn more about the minority groups and how our transportation planning is affecting them and where they are and connect with them and find out what they want,” said Lucinda Shannon with the Thomas Jefferson Planning District.   *Today is the last day to submit comments on a draft affordable housing plan put together by consultants hired by Charlottesville City Council to complete the Comprehensive Plan. As of yesterday, Rhodeside and Harwell had received nearly 200 responses to a request to comment on the plan as well as the guiding principles for the comp plan. People are asked to review the materials on the Cville Plans Together website before filling out the survey. The consultants will revise the draft plan and the goal is to return to City Council with a revised version in January. (survey)These are the draft Comprehensive Plan principles. What do you think? Let the the consultants know. *During the pandemic, the Local Food Hub has continued to connect local agriculture with local customers through drive-through markets held in the parking lot of the former K-Mart Building. The nonprofit has recently announced they will keep going in 2021 after taking a brief break after December 18. The markets will resume Wednesday and Friday from 3:30-5:00 p.m. beginning on January 13. Order taking for that market will begin on January 7. (order) “Developed in response to COVID, the market has been operating since March, and has done over $600,000 in sales,” said Portia Boggs, the director of advancement and communications for the Local Food Hub. According to a press release, vendors at the market include Recurring vendors at the market include: Agriberry, Back Pocket Provisions, Bellair Farm, Caromont Farm, Clover Top Creamery, Carter Mountain Orchard, delli Carpini, Forking Creations, Free Union Grass Farm, Gathered Threads, Gillispie's County Line, good phyte foods, Foresthill Firewood, JAM According to Daniel, Fairweather Farm, Little Hat Creek Farm, Lone Light Coffee, MarieBette Cafe and Bakery, Millstream Farm, Mountain Culture Kombucha, Sussex Farm, Sweet Greens Farm, Elysium Honey Company, Wandering River, Twenty Paces, Pachamama Peru, and The Pie Chest.Some of the items that can be purchased through the Local Food Hub’s drive-through market. (Credit - Local Food Hub)*Today in meetings, the Albemarle Board of Supervisors meets and will have discuss the possibility of levying a tax on cigarettes, will get an audited financial report for the last fiscal year, and will consider a private sewer system for the new Regents School on Fontaine Road Extended. On the consent agenda is a report on the Land Use and Environmental Planning Committee, a group of city, county and University staff that replaced a group that consisted of elected officials top UVA officials. (report)Tonight at 7 p.m., the Albemarle-Charlottesville Historical Society will host the the head of the First Amendment Museum in Augusta, Maine, as part of a new series they are calling Unregulated Historical Meanderings. (zoom registration) (Facebook page)Support my research by making a donation through PatreonSign for a subscription to Charlottesville Community Engagement, free or paidPay me through Venmo This is a public episode. 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This year’s marathon special legislative session finally draws to a close, with money approved for an investigation into racism at VMI, plus the passage of legislation to protect people of color from abusive police stops… The federal government tells the would-be builders of the cancelled Atlantic Coast Pipeline to submit plans to clean up the mess….

This year’s marathon special legislative session finally draws to a close, with money approved for an investigation into racism at VMI, plus the passage of legislation to protect people of color from abusive police stops… The federal government tells the would-be builders of the cancelled Atlantic Coast Pipeline to submit plans to clean up the mess….

As we went through our interview covering  "Hanesville and Appalachain - Gas Focus" with Rob McBride, Sr. Director, Enverus, the numbers confirmed that pure gas plays are set to rise. Appalachian – Marcellus and Utica ➢ Rigs have fallen off in the Appalachian, but there are still rigs running and new wells being drilled. Production is expected to continue to climb in the Marcellus and Utica. The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is expected to come online in early 2021, which will add 2 Bcf/d of takeaway capacity to the region and send gas to the Transco Zone 5 region. Should MVP meet the same fate as the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which was cancelled in early July, pipeline bottlenecks could be seen in the region as early as mid-2021. Enverus does not expect this to happen. Haynesville: ➢ With the drop in crude oil prices, higher natural gas prices are needed to make pure gas plays economical. Higher gas-directed production will offset the production losses from associated gas in order to meet demand in the US. As production grows, additional takeaway capacity is needed from the play. At least four pipeline projects have been proposed to transport gas from the Haynesville to demand in the Gulf Coast. Rob, thanks for stopping by and visiting with us about your team's newest report! Check the link below to download the report, or contact Rob.

In this episode I speak with Dr. Ryan Emanuel. He is a Lumbee associate professor at North Carolina state in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. In this episode we discuss the Atlantic Pipeline and the recent decision to cancel its construction on July 7th, 2020. The pipeline began in 2013 under the Obama administration. It was projected to be 600 miles crossing from Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina. The Atlantic pipeline was described as an energy provider and job creator, for the region. Those opposed to the pipeline say its presence would have disrupted the water and eco-system while being a threat to poor, rural, Black and Indigenous communities in the states. The cancellation comes as a big win for the networks who organized against it. Included in this network are Indigenous peoples from the surrounding nations. Dr. Emanuel and I discuss the pipeline's history, Indigenous people's resistance, and what the win means for Indigenous people in the region. Links: Dr. Emanuel's Website: waterpotential.wordpress.ncsu.edu/ Article: academic.oup.com/envhis/article/24/1/25/5232296 Music by @purplecatsinslacks

Tune in to learn about Lou Zeller's successful efforts to cancel the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Interested in learning more? Visit https://www.facebook.com/BlueRidgeEnvironmentalDefenseLeague.

Paul Wilson is the pastor of the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Union Hill, Virginia a small, historically Black community. When he found out that Dominion Energy and Duke Energy wanted to build a compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in the middle of his community, it felt all too familiar. After organizing around protecting their community's health from air and well water pollution from the station, Union Hill residents won their legal battle against the pipeline, leading to its cancellation in July 2020.

We had the opportunity to sit down with Bernadette Johnson, Vice President, Strategic Analytics to talk about their report "Midstream: Financial and Regulatory Update". Our interview covered some of the most concerning issues currently around Midstream. Let's see: Bankruptcies, M&A, Capital Raises, Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. "There were no trends in Q2 bankruptcies that related to region or gatherer, but there will be undoubtedly be many stakeholders and regions impacted as bankruptcies continue." Well the good news is that there is no individual region that is singled out, the bad news is that everyone is still in the game for bankruptcies. The regulatory discussion points were very timely with all of the political activity. Thank you for stopping by Bernadette! As always we are thrilled to hear your insights, and Michael still thinks your a rock star. *Bernadette also just recently had a fantastic presentation at The Oil & Gas Conference earlier this month.

Stephen Clarke joins the podcast to share a story about a client that fibbed about his life history and the reaction of clients to the cancellation of Atlantic Coast Pipeline.  He also introduces me to the boardgame "Settlers of Catan."  

Francine Stephenson, President of BREDL chapter No Pipeline Johnston County (NPJoCo), Tom Clark, member of BREDL chapter Cumberland County Caring Voices (C3V), Marvin Winstead, President of Nash County Stop the Pipeline (NSTP) and BREDL community organizer, and Lou Zeller, Executive director of Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL). Francine, Tom, and Marvin were all along the 600 mile long proposed pathway of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline where BREDL strategically organized these chapters. With Francine she speaks on how there should be a place where citizens can go to know what their rights are, Tom talks about how the ACP caused conflicts within his family and when Dominion cut down his grandfather's pine tree, Marvin speaks on the disadvantages and problems with fracked ‘natural' gas, and then Lou talks about turning points throughout the six year journey against the ACP and what is next, moving forward from the victory. No Pipeline Johnston County (NPJoCo) County: Johnston County, NC Francine Stephenson, president – francine.stephenson@gmail.com Facebook: No Pipeline Johnston County Cumberland County Caring Voices (C3V) County: Cumberland County, NC Tom Clark, member - 910.322.0664 Facebook: Cumberland County Caring Voices Nash Stop The Pipeline (NSTP) County: Nash County, NC Marvin Winstead, president – 252-478-5442 / marwinstead@gmail.com Facebook Group: Nash Stop The Pipeline Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Office Lou Zeller: bredl@bestsky.com or 336.982.2691 More on chapters and campaigns: nopipeline.net Background Music Credits: https://www.youtube.com/c/mbbmusic https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial https://www.instagram.com/mbb_music

On this week's bonus episode, we're discussing the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, reflecting on last week's Rethinking Climate Change episode as Frank's home in Puerto Rico experiences a tropical storm, sharing some behind the scenes stories about the making of “The UNEP Song,” and more. With Sweaty Penguin Researcher Olivia Amitay and Producers Frank Hernandez and Caroline Koehl.

After years in the works, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline - a celebrated, bipartisan project - was abruptly canceled. Was this an overnight change of heart? Or were there other powers at work? And what's this about the Mountain Valley Pipeline? Join us for the thrilling conclusion of this two-part series as Delegate Sam Rasoul and Union Hill resident Richard Walker share their stories. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejusticereport/message

In this episode, we sit down with David Neal of Southern Environmental Law Center to discuss the recent cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). The ACP was initially a $4.5 billion proposed project, but eventually ballooned to $8 billion until it was finally cancelled. This decision was a shocker to many in the industry, but not surprising that the project was too expensive, infeasible, and unjustified. Hear about why this massive fossil fuel project failed, and what it means for NC's clean energy future. Presented by NC Sustainable Energy Association. Hosted and produced by Ben Stockdale.

After years in the works, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline - a celebrated, bipartisan project - was abruptly canceled. Was this an overnight change of heart? Or were there other powers at work? Jessica Sims (VA Sierra Club) and Jonathan Sokolow (attorney, writer, and activist) joined us to discuss their advocacy in this fight. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thejusticereport/message

On February 24, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Atlantic Coast Pipeline LLC v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association, a case evaluating the U.S. Forest Service's authority to grant rights-of-way under the Mineral Leasing Act of a natural gas pipeline that would traverse the Appalachian Trail 600 feet below ground. B&D's John Cruden and Allyn Stern share key takeaways from the case. B&D principals Jamie Auslander, John Cruden, and Peter Schaumberg filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers and 20 other trade associations, supporting reversal of the Fourth Circuit's novel interpretation of two federal statutes to bar the pipeline project. On June 15, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in our clients' favor in the Cowpasture case, holding that the U.S. Forest Service has authority to grant a pipeline right-of-way that crosses underneath the Appalachian Trail within a national forest.

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline project is dead - just like Gov. Roy Cooper's slush fund dreams associated with the project. Lt. Gov. Dan Forest files a lawsuit against Cooper over his SHEOs. Also, NC leaders & media keep focusing on rising case numbers and hospitalizations - even though these data sets are less about informing and more about generating fear. Subscribe for FREE: https://thepetekalinershow.com/get-the-podcast/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/petekalinershow Advertisers: https://thepetekalinershow.com/support-the-businesses-that-support-us/ Marketplace: https://thepetekalinershow.com/marketplace/ Twitter: @PeteKaliner Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/633836460739500/   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/petekalinershow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Get exclusive content here!: https://thepetekalinershow.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Protesters flee on foot as law enforcement fires tear gas and so-called “less lethal” weapons at the end of a Justice for George Floyd protest in Oakland on June 1. Photo by KPFA's Ariel Boone. On this show: 0:08 – The first death from Covid-19 inside an ICE detention center took place in Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. We speak with Anthony Alexandre, who is currently being detained at the CoreCivic-run facility, and led a hunger strike inside earlier this year. Alexandre reports being exposed to confirmed cases of Covid-19 at least twice since inside, and says immigration status should not be a death sentence during the pandemic. Alexandre also says ICE is vastly underreporting the number of cases inside Otay Mesa. 0:17 – A new Reuters investigation follows asylum seekers who are dropping their cases in order to flee for their safety — from Covid-19. Immigrants in detention with medical vulnerabilities fear death from the virus and are reporting immigration officials are encouraging them to sign for their own deportation, to try to avoid the virus. Laura Gottesdiener (@Gottesdiener), a reporter for Reuters in Monterrey, Mexico. You can read her investigation here. 0:33 – Yesterday, Mexico's COVID-19 death toll reached 30,000, making it the country with the fifth-highest number of officially reported deaths. Shannon Young (@SYoungReports) reports from Oaxaca. 0:41 – We turn to Yemen, where a five-year civil war and devastating U.S.-supported bombing campaign by Saudi Arabia continue to cause a humanitarian disaster, destroying the country's health infrastructure and leaving it unprepared to handle the coronavirus. KPFA's Rami Almeghari reports. 0:48 – Laura Carlsen (@lauracarlsenc) discusses the politics and economics of COVID in Mexico and President Trump's upcoming meeting with with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. She's the director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. 1:08 – The Supreme Court let stand a lower court decision that blocked construction of part of the Keystone XL Pipeline in Montana, a pipeline long targeted by climate activists; a federal judge ruled that the Dakota Access Pipeline operated by Energy Transfer Partners must shut down and empty itself of oil within 30 days; and Dominion Energy and Duke Energy have cancelled their plans to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, deciding it was no longer profitable. Environmental advocates count these as major victories against polluting, extractive projects, after years of resistance largely led by indigenous organizers. We speak with Antonia Juhasz (@AntoniaJuhasz), a Bertha Fellow in investigative journalism, part of a global team of journalists investigating climate, fossil fuels and corporate power. Her most recent book is Black Tide. 1:33 – On June 1, 2020, at the end of a youth-led Justice for George Floyd demonstration and 20 minutes before Oakland's curfew, the Oakland Police Department tear gassed protesters. The police claim it was justified and provoked. But what really happened that evening? We're joined by three journalists from nonprofit newsroom The Oaklandside, Darwin BondGraham (@DarwinBondGraha), Sarah Belle Lin (@SarahBelleLin) and Jonah Owen Lamb, who used visual evidence to investigate police conduct at the protest and compare it to police and city statements and policies. Read their investigation here: “Did OPD violate its own policies against protesters?” The post Some asylum seekers abandon their cases to escape COVID in ICE detention; Mexico's virus death toll reaches 30,000; Visual evidence sheds light on OPD protest crackdown appeared first on KPFA.

Imagine one day you get a letter in the mail. This letter, from a huge corporation, demands your land -- land that's been in your family for generations. This is what happened to Marvin Winstead, Blair Campbell, John and Ruby Laury and many others, starting back in 2013. Behind it all? Duke Energy and Dominion Resources, two giant energy companies looking to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The pipeline would pumped fracked gas through the heart of the Southeast, threatening a river of deep cultural significance to the Lumbee Tribe, a historic African American neighborhood in Virginia, and family farms from West Virginia to North Carolina. But from the mountains of West Virginia to Robeson County, North Carolina, people in communities are uniting to fight back, in a defining struggle for environmental justice. This is the first full-length episode of The Land I Trust, a brand new audio storytelling project brought to you by the Sierra Club. In this series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the dirty energy projects that threaten their homes and the work they're doing to build a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive. To hear more from the people in this episode, and to hear other stories about moving from coal to clean energy, go to sc.org/stories. To take action, you can go to ​ ​sc.org/divest and join the fight against dirty fuel pipelines, or check out the latest ways to make a difference at addup.org. The series is narrated by Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Beyond Coal Campaign at Sierra Club.

Blair Campbell's land in Randolph County, West Virginia, has been in her family for generations. But the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline could cut right through her family's 480-acre farm. Here, she and her daughter, Penelope, age 9, visit their property. The Land I Trust is a brand new audio storytelling project brought to you by the Sierra Club. In this series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the dirty energy projects that threaten their homes and the work they're doing to build a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive. Hear all of the first-person stories from The Land I Trust at http://www.sc.org/stories.

Ruby and John Laury live in Buckingham County, Virginia, in Union Hill—a predominantly African-American community where Dominion Energy plans to build a compressor station as part of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The station would use gas-fired turbines to pump gas through the system. The proposed pipeline would have only three compressor stations—one at each and, and one in the middle, where Ruby and John live. Here, they talk about why they think their community was chosen for this station, and what that means to them. The Land I Trust is a brand new audio storytelling project brought to you by the Sierra Club. In this series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the dirty energy projects that threaten their homes and the work they're doing to build a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive. Hear all of the first-person stories from The Land I Trust at http://www.sc.org/stories.

Southerners pass down traditions, stories and -- hopefully -- a better world to their children. The family stories in this episode come from people trying to do just that. Steve Benjamin, the first African American mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, is working for 100 percent clean energy -- and making progress. Tom & Sandra Clark, grandparents from North Carolina, are trying to preserve their home for their grandchildren. And Amy Mercado and Vic Torres, a father-daughter team from Florida, are fighting to be sure America lives up to its responsibility to take care of its people. This is the second full-length episode of The Land I Trust, a brand new audio storytelling project brought to you by the Sierra Club. In this series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the dirty energy projects that threaten their homes and the work they're doing to build a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive. To hear more from the people in this episode, and to hear other stories about moving from coal to clean energy, go to sc.org/stories. To take action, you can go to addup.org and see the latest ways to make a difference. The series is narrated by Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Beyond Coal Campaign at Sierra Club.

Jorden Revels is a 19-year-old activist and member of the Lumbee Nation in North Carolina. Here, he paddles a canoe along the Lumber River—which some propose renaming the Lumbee River, in recognition of its cultural significance—and talks about how the river could be disrupted by the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The Land I Trust is a brand new audio storytelling project brought to you by the Sierra Club. In this series, we travel through the American South to talk with folks about the dirty energy projects that threaten their homes and the work they're doing to build a clean energy economy that allows all of our communities to thrive. Hear all of the first-person stories from The Land I Trust at http://www.sc.org/stories.

Episode 4 of The Dirt features an interview with Dr. Ryan Emanuel, an associate professor at NC State University and a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Ryan serves on the environmental justice committee of the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs and spoke to The Dirt about the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and its threat to the sovereignty of indigenous communities. The episode also features interviews with experts on sediment pollution and water conservation, as well as a panel of policy professionals discussing the plans for the upcoming session of the NC General Assembly.