Advisory Panel Pressures Va. Gov. to Block 2 “Racist” Pipelines
Here we go again. More talk from desperate liberals who irrationally hate fossil fuels, claiming the location of two pipelines in Virginia is "racist." You didn't know that an inert metal tube could be racist, did you? Yeah, it's stupid and silly and beyond words--but there you have it. Our schools are doing such a poor job of educating our citizens, they grow up to believe in wild fairy tales and declare anyone (or anything) that is not their particular skin color must be racist. In Virginia, the Governor's Advisory Council on Environmental Justice, is recommending to Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam that he should illegally (against federal law) rescind federal Clean Water Act permits that allow both the $6.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline (Dominion Energy) and $3.7 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline (EQT Midstream) from crossing the state. The Advisory Council's tortured thinking is that the pipeline runs through a few poor/black communities--so it MUST be racist. No mention of the fact that such pipelines actually benefit communities and individuals economically. Pipelines get no credit for economically benefiting nearby communities--they only get dinged for flowing an evil fossil fuel that supposedly causes man-made global warming...
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