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Defending Our Lands and Waters: The Dangers of Enbridge’s Ridgeline Expansion Pipeline and How to Take Action
If you live in an impacted county (Morgan, Roane, Fentress, Overton, Putnam, Jackson, Smith and Trousdale), TCWP wants you to have sufficient information about the potential harm of allowing Enbridge to install a gas pipeline in your county and to provide you some...
NOW is the time to voice your concerns about the Proposed Oak Ridge Airport
TCWP is urging our members to express your concerns about the proposed Oak Ridge Airport by writing to those with decision-making authority. We have provided the email addresses below for your convenience. The study justifying the airport is more than 10 years old. ...
Oak Ridge Airport Environmental Assessment Public Hearing August 8 from 6-8 PM
The Environmental Assessment document for the proposed Oak Ridge...
Help tell DOE to be more transparent with its toxic waste plans at Oak Ridge Reservation
As cleanup of hazardous and radioactive material at the Oak Ridge Reservation continues, the Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing a reckless plan that would contaminate waterways with toxic chemicals and put downstream communities at risk. Next week, DOE is holding...
Primacy is too expensive for state
The pesky bill (SB 742) that gives the state of Tennessee responsibility for permitting and enforcing coal mining will be heard tomorrow (Wednesday, March 31) by the Senate 2021 Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. These responsibilities, ever...
Why We Oppose the Proposed Oak Ridge Motor Complex
https://youtu.be/u6wCARcZYow On Feb 4, 2021, leaders of AFORR, Advocates for the Oak Ridge Reservation, gave a comprehensive assessment of the Horizon Center, the BORCE, the natural areas within the Horizon Center, and the impact of a racetrack to the area. The event...
Public Comments Sought on Proposed Water Quality Permit for the Pigeon River
Photo of Pigeon River by Erin Johnson Those of you that drove down I-40 at the Tennessee/North Carolina border in the pre-1990’s remember not only the nasty smell of the ‘Dirty Bird’ but also the dark-stained water due to discharges from the Champion papermill in...
A Message from AFORR on the proposed Motorsports complex
Virginia Dale and Ellen Smith A real estate developer wants to build a motorsports complex in an Oak Ridge industrial park. The site has significant ecological and recreational value. The US Department of Energy (DOE) transferred the Horizon Center land for industrial...
Opposes motorsports proposal too
Below is a reprinted letter to the editor by Anne Child published online by The Oak Ridger on Nov. 20, 2020. To the Editor: David Wilson, chair of the Industrial Development Board (IDB), wrote a guest column to update us on the Motorsports Park project proposed for...
MOTORSPORTS PARK – City of Oak Ridge Officials need to hear your oppositions
The Industrial Development Board, Oak Ridge Municipal Planning Commission, and Oak Ridge City Council will all be meeting this month and chances are they will be discussing the proposed motorsports park proposed for the Horizon Center in West Oak Ridge. We...