Nelson County continues pipeline easement battle Easements in Nelson County loom over landowners despite the cancellation of Atlantic Coast Pipeline (Source: wvir) By Andrew Webb | April 17, 2021 at 10:42 PM EDT - Updated April 17 at 10:42 PM
NELSON COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - Over 250 properties in Nelson County signed easements with Dominion Energy to avoid eminent domain from taking over their land for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
“Even though this is a dead project, the easements are very much alive,” Nelson County Board of Supervisors Chair Ernie Reed said.
The county is now taking action and fighting for the landowners who were forced to give up land for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which has since been canceled.
Shannon Brennan
Special to The News & Advance
As sunlight sifted through the treetops onto the forest floor, a dozen hikers stopped to look up at the yellow-bellied sapsuckers courting above.
This stretch of land in the George Washington National Forest in Amherst County is slated to be slashed to the ground, taking countless life forms above and below the soil for a relatively small amount of timber on this particular mountaintop.
The U.S. Forest Service says the logging will provide early successional forest, which includes herbs, shrubs and small trees as the forest regenerates after cutting. Several species rely on this type of forest for their food and habitat.
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