Author Archive for Admin

Old Dominion Sierran Fall 2010 is Out and Turning Up the Heat!

By Admin on Sep 22, 2010 in Chapter News

The Virginia Chapter’s Old Dominion Sierran Fall 2010 is out and it’s hot! Check it out today!
Look what’s inside:

McDonnell offers “Do Nothing Plan” to clean up the Bay
Notes from the Chair
Meet Sierra Club’s Virginia chapter staff
Attend Weekend in Wise County
2010-2011 Conservation campaigns and priorities
Chapter hires grassroots organizing manager
Last chance for Annual Gathering
Fracking–dangers of extracting [...]

Video: So You Want to be an Oil Baron

By Admin on Sep 17, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities

When “drill, baby, drill” becomes “spill, baby, spill,” pro-drilling governors need help. Fossil fuel baron Phil Moneybags tells them how to stay the course.

ODEC Delays Plans for Surry-Hampton Roads Coal Plant

By Admin on Sep 08, 2010 in Beyond Coal

Great news from the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition:
The Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition lauded Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s announcement today to delay plans for what would be the largest coal-fired power plant in Virginia. The temporary halt will allow the company, its customers, government officials and the conservation community to explore alternatives that will [...]

Over 1700 Join Hands Across The Sand in Virginia

By Admin on Jul 16, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities

It was in March this year that Joe Bouchard, Laura Wood Habr (Croc’s 19th Street Bistro and Virginia Beach’s “green ambassador”), Ari Lawrence (Virginia Chair, Surfrider Foundation), and myself met to talk about doing a Hands Across The Sand in Virginia Beach. We were inspired by the 10,000 Floridians who a month earlier had [...]

Annual Gathering Oct. 1-3 at Prince William Forest Park: Most Stimulating To Date

By Admin on Jul 03, 2010 in Chapter News

Important Update!
This just in… click here for the complete agenda for our Annual Gathering.
And remember… it’s not too late to register! Click here to do so TODAY!
by Ann Moore
This year’s Sierra Club Annual Gathering promises to be the most exciting, informative, fun and best-fed gathering in many years. It is to [...]

Old Dominion Sierran Summer 2010 Hot Off The Press

By Admin on Jul 01, 2010 in Chapter News

The Virginia Chapter’s Old Dominion Sierran Summer 2010 is hot off the press. Check it out today!
* Environmentalists challenge efforts to push through new mountaintop removal coal mine
* View from the Chair
* Glen Besa receives 2010 Virginia Ferguson Award
[...]

Tell MMS to Stop Atlantic Drilling Program, Fast-Track Wind Instead!

By Admin on Jun 29, 2010 in Safeguarding Communities

BREAKING: Thanks everyone for submitting comments. Last yesterday the DOI has decided to re-open the comment period following assessment of the BP disaster. If
you submitted comments, they will be rolled over to the new comment period.
While we applaud President Obama’s decision to cancel Virginia’s lease sale, we are not out of the woods on drilling. [...]

Join Hands Across The Sand June 26!

By Admin on Jun 18, 2010 in Resilient Habitats, Safeguarding Communities

With now 5 beaches organized for HANDS ACROSS THE SAND and days counting down until June 26, we need all hands on deck to make this National Day Action extremely successful!
Our message with HANDS ACROSS THE SAND is simple, but multi-fold: #1″No” to offshore drilling, #2 “Yes” to clean renewable energy, and #3 [...]

Salazar, East Coast Governors Form Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium

By Admin on Jun 09, 2010 in Clean Energy Solutions, Offshore Wind

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and ten East Coast governors to include Virginia’s Governor Bob McDonnell signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday to create an Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium to promote “the efficient, orderly, and responsible development of wind resources on the Outer Continental Shelf”.
Glen Besa, Director, Sierra Club-Virginia Chapter, offers the following statement:
“Offshore wind [...]

Urge the EPA to Block Ison Rock Ridge Mining Permit

By Admin on Jun 04, 2010 in Beyond Coal, Mountaintop Removal

If ever there is a time we must stand together to stop mountaintop removal coal mining, it is now. On May 12, the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy approved the Ison Rock Ridge permit, a 1,300-acre surface coal mine, that would forever destroy five of communities in Wise County, Virginia, and devastate the [...]