No MVP Southgate Lambert Compressor Station! Pittsylvania County, Virginia – Zoom Webinar – 2.2.2021
Channel: ARTivism Virginia
Date: 2021-02-03

On February 2, 2021, the Pittsylvania County, Virginia NAACP hosted a public education Zoom meeting on the proposed MVP Southgate Lambert Compressor Station for their community. This is a recording of that meeting.

ARTivism Virginia was honored to assist with this gathering and the expert collaborators who spoke and answered questions. Those speakers included Karen Campblin, Environmental and Climate Justice Chair for the VA State Conference NAACP, Dr. Mary Finley Brook, Associate Professor of Geography and the Environment at the University of Richmond, Lynn Godfrey, Sierra Club Virginia Chapter's Community Outreach Coordinator for Stop the Pipelines campaigns and Mark Sabath, senior attorney with SELC in Charlottesville. 

The meeting was convened and facilitated by Anita Royston, Chairwoman of the Pittsylvania NAACP and Elizabeth Jones, Chair of the Pittsylvania NAACP’s Environmental Justice Committee. Gratitude for all 51 participants.  

Once again, we see a community scrambling to prepare for an in-progress permitting process without adequate or advance notification or information from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality or from the applicant, MVP Southgate. Once again, we see environmental justice being treated as a box to be checked.

The first public hearing for the Lambert Compressor Station will take place Monday, February 8, 2021 at 6:00PM. Register to attend and/or make a public comment here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4187178184631959312

More information on the Feb 8th public hearing here – DEQ NOTICE: https://www.deq.virginia.gov/permits-regulations/public-notices/air

Concerned Virginians are encouraged to file a written public comment before March 10, 2021 and information for that is here:  https://godanriver.com/opinion/letters/time-to-weigh-in/article_ac5f3a10-120f-585b-83be-e7419423f7dd.html?

Now is not the time to grant an air permit for the proposed Lambert Compressor Station in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.  

The proposed Lambert Compressor Station would power Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate before the entire project, including MVP main line has permits to cross Virginia and North Carolina waterways.

Another rural community without extensive broadband being targeted by a noisy unhealthy fracked gas compressor station in the middle of a pandemic and a climate crisis? That would be no. Show up and say so!

To learn more about the proposed MVP Southgate Compressor Station and how to help fight it, please email the Pittsylvania County NAACP at naacppittscoejc@gmail.com.

#noMVPSouthgate #NoCompressorStation #noMVP #ShowUp #WEWILLWIN