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Atlantic Coast Pipeline Would Cost Nelson County $43 Million

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would cost Nelson County up to $43 million dollars per year, with additional one-time costs of up to $41 million according to an independent economic report issued Tuesday by Key-Log Economics. Individuals and businesses would lose up to $25 million in property value outright, while annual losses would include $18 million in recreation tourism dollars and $1.2 million in personal income. The county government would lose $526,000 in tax revenue and

Atlantic Coast Pipeline

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Would Cost Nelson County $43 Million The Atlantic Coast Pipeline would cost Nelson County up to $43 million dollars per year, with additional one-time costs of up to $41 million according to an independent economic report issued Tuesday by Key-Log Economics. Individuals and businesses would lose up to $25 million in property value outright, while annual losses would include $18 million in recreation tourism dollars and $1.2 million in personal income.

Supremacy Clause

January 28th, 2015 we received an email from PA U.S. Senator Bob Casey. This email told us: “Columbia has stated that they will not seek local permits on the basis of federal preemption of state and local laws under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. The Supremacy Clause states that federal laws can preempt state and local laws on the same subject. Therefore, Columbia stated that it is not required to comply with local permits.” Columbia’s expansion of th

It's Symbiosis, Stupid

Lots of people “get” it. Why don’t our “Leaders”? We were just down at the DC rally. With 40,000 of our friends and neighbors. Marching to the White House. Passing the fence where the Sierra Club’s executive director Michael Brune, the club’s president Alison Chen, 350.org’s Bill McKibben hand-cuffed themselves the week before. How serious is Global Warming. These scary awesome changes in our climate and the impacts on our environment? Bill has been arrested before. But it

Bethlehem Bridge

Bethlehem Bridge

A meeting, co-sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Sierra Club and Lehigh University’s Southside Initiative, was held February 3rd in Bethlehem at the Charles Brown Ice House. Lehigh professor Breena Holland did great work in planning and presenting this community dialogue. A follow-up meeting will be held February 24th. The speakers included: a city planner, a county parks representative, an urban trails planner, a Lehigh University architecture professor, a Lehigh Valley Mountain

You Are What You Eat: Buy Fresh, Eat Local, Go Natural, Go Organic

You Are What You Eat: Buy Fresh, Eat Local, Go Natural, Go Organic

Why do humans feel we have to improve everything? Why do we think we can? Case in point. Nature’s methods of growing food. She provides an environment rich in all the necessary ingredients; plants that draw from the soil, plants that return value to the soil. Farming methods have obviously changed over the years. Way before our time, people grew what they needed for personal family and neighbor use. Surpluses were traded. If they grew the same thing in the same place year af

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