Blue Ridge Earth First!

It was the uniform versus the unicorn this past Saturday when Dominion Power complete with police protection standing by, and Blue Ridge Earth First! displaying a particular wit and whimsy, held a stand-off at tables directly across from one another at RVA Earth Day.
So a couple weeks ago some Richmond residents upset with the city’s […]

Fun was to be had today in Richmond, Virginia around noon today, at the offices of Dominion Resources.  About two dozen folks identifying themselves as “Billionaires for Coal” assembled  to ostensibly voice their praise for the company’s many coal-fired power plants.Dressed in formal attire and sipping beverages from wine glasses, the group chanted pro-coal, anti-environment […]

 
Come one, come all to a Billionaires for Coal rally in front of Dominion Power’s high-rise office building in downtown Richmond on Saturday February 7th at 12:00 pm. The affair will be the latest in now years-long grassroots movement opposing Dominion’s plans to construct a new coal-fired power plant in Wise County, Va.
This event is […]

As of 6pm yesterday, everyone is out of jail.  But, please keep those donations coming if your able.  We need to pay back friends that loaned money for bail and to cover upcoming legal costs.  To donate to BREF! please login to your paypal account and send your donation to Drumplaya112@yahoo.com More updates soon!

As of 4:30 pm the 12 Blue Ridge Earth First! activists remain in police custody awaiting bail. After speaking directly with the detained individuals, they are doing well but eager for their release. Bonding alone is going to cost $1,200 to $2,400 and BREF! continues to accept donations, both through paypal to Drumplaya112@yahoo.com or […]

Here is a link to Beth Wellingtons blog which contains more information regarding the action and arrest of 12 blue ridge earth first members. Please give your support to those 12 compassionate BREF! members who place our shared human interest above their own personal welfare. As of 2:30pm the activists are still being […]

Hello Fellow Activists,
This morning in Richmond, Virginia 12 activists from Blue Ridge Earth First! were arrested while participating in a blockade of the Dominion property on Tredegar Street. The blockade was to protest the development of Dominion’s coal-fired power plant in Wise County, VA and the construction of new reactors at […]

September 2006 – Dominion Power announces plans to build a dirty coal plant in southwest Virginia.
June 2007 – Mountain Justice holds a “cradle to grave” march from Mountaintop Removal mogul Massey Energy offices to Dominion offices in downtown Richmond to point out that from extraction to combustion there is no such […]

Thanks Asheville Ben for posting.
 

   
This past Tuesday (April 15th) I was blessed by my creator and honored by my friends to participate in a blockade that shut down Dominion Power’s headquarters for close to two hours at the beginning of the work day. The action was taken by Blue Ridge Earth First!, a Virginia-based chapter of the decentralized global […]