Opposition Archives

Atlantic Ocean and NC Beach. Photo: Frank Whatley.

“Not Off Our Coast”: NC Opposition to Seismic Testing and Offshore Drilling

July 20, 2017 Guest Author or Contributor

Governor Cooper announced today that the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality will submit formal comments opposing offshore seismic testing for oil drilling on North Carolina’s coast. The Governor joined coastal business owners and community […]

Source: Friends of Nelson, based in Virginia.

Pipeline Would Require Extensive Mountaintop Removal

May 1, 2017 Kay Whatley

New Research Exposes How Dominion’s Proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) Would Decapitate 38 Miles of Ridgelines in Virginia and West Virginia By Denise Robbins (chesapeakeclimate.org), Anne Havemann (chesapeakeclimate.org), and Joyce Burton (Friends of Nelson) A briefing paper released today […]

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Ready to Fly a Car?

February 13, 2017

The First Flying Car Company to Start Selling its Commercial Models The first commercial flying car in the world is now a fact. Flying car manufacturer PAL-V, based in The Netherlands, has officially started sales […]

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The Strange-ness: Morpheus Bridge Spectre

October 31, 2016

For Halloween, let’s look at a local “legend”. We’ll visit the Morpheus Bridge on the aptly named Morpheus Bridge Road in Wendell, North Carolina. The story goes that a mother, father, and child — alledgedly a daughter — were driving along […]

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SkunkLock Poised to Deliver World’s First Deterrent Bike Lock

October 24, 2016

When a Thief Tries to Break It, a Potent, Stinking Formula Escapes From the Lock Released by Daniel P. Idzkowski, Skunklock LLC SkunkLock, the creators of the world’s first deterrent bike lock, achieved its funding goal via IndieGoGo […]