The Atlantic Coast Pipeline was announced in 2014. It was to have crossed West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, over 600 miles in all through the Blue Ridge Mountains, critical ecosystems, and Indigenous communities. The pipeline’s compressor station was to have been sited in historic Union Hill, a community formed by formerly enslaved people after emancipation. Dozens of environmental groups, religious congregations, law firms, and others worked together to fight the pipeline, winning, and sometimes losing, lawsuits challenging permits issued for the pipeline. Ultimately, the long fight caused delays and cost increases, and Dominion Energy withdrew the project on July 5, 2020.
Followup speaker is Jessica Sims, Virginia Conservation Network