We do have local authority to protect vs metallic mining – will we act on it?
Ken Nadle debuts for public comments. Thank you for getting out of your comfort zone to speak up for what you love! With the National Academies of Sciences (NASEM) final report in, and the State Agency Committee wrapping up their report on the impacts of gold mining...
Letter to the editor – Buckingham needs a dual defense against gold mining
Buckingham County Board of Supervisors Must Consider a Dual Defense Against Gold Mining. In addition to the environmental destruction inherent to gold mining, I would like the Board of Supervisors and county residents to consider the financial consequences of a gold...
Op Ed, LTE: Why wait to protect Buckingham County?
The Farmville Herald is steady with the coverage on gold mining! Mindy Zlotnick and Chad Oba speak out. Check out a pdf of 2 letters in the August 24, 2022 publication here. Read another article by Finn Pollard in the Richmond Times Dispatch - scroll for it. Why wait...
Your letters to the Farmville Herald: 3! in one issue!
Buckingham residents continue to shine a light on the industrial gold mining problems - and answers. Thanks for speaking out! This is what it takes to protect our home. The Farmville Herald has published three! articles in one issue! Below you will find 2 letters to...
Letter to the editor: Supervisors should OK ordinance opposing gold mining
Santoshi Young: As a new householder and new mom living in Buckingham County, I am concerned about what the future holds for my family. And when I hear about the potential harms of possible gold mining, I get really scared. After hearing the two experts at the...
Letters to the editor: Speak up! Say NO! to new gold mining in Virginia!
Photo: Cyanide 'pool'! Cyanide spill in Turkey highlights environmental toll of mining Heidi Dhivya Berthoud: There are over 70 abandoned metallic mines in Buckingham alone, all loaded with mercury, as that was used to process gold in the 1800s. Why would we let...
Letter to the editor: Have you been heard?
Kenda Hanuman: Thank you for the May 20 Opinion announcing the public listening session on gold mining. I was impressed on May 25 by the two hours of comments—all against industrial scale gold mining! The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) committee now has listened...
LTE: National Academies of Sciences gold study listening session May 25
Nelson Bailey: Thanks to Erica Schoenberger for the excellent article (5/10/22) about risks and rewards of gold mining in our area. She states that the principal risks are environmental. These include acid mine drainage, cyanide spills and the failure of tailings...
LTE: Protect Buckingham County Water
Joseph Jeeva Abbate: Cyanide, Mercury, Arsenic…these poisonous chemicals are part of gold ore processing and are a component of every Gold Mine of any type. Do you want to drink these deadly poisons? Do you want these toxins leaching or spilling into our creeks,...
Letter to the editor: Gold mining, the environment and environmental justice
Erica Schoenberger: Buckingham County faces the prospect of a gold mine within its borders. Many of the county’s residents are opposed to it. Virginia has established a working group and also enlisted the help of the National Academy of Sciences to examine the...