Activists from Blue Ridge Earth First! and Mountain Justice Summer blockaded the Richmond, VA headquarters of Dominion Energy on the morning of June 30. An all-woman team locked down in the street in front of the building, while another woman hung in the street suspended from a bridge.

The action came in response to the VIrginia Air Board issuing permits to Dominion Energy for a new coal-fired power plant in St. Paul, VA. It was a protest against Dominion’s plans for new coal and nuclear power plants, and against the practices of coal and nuclear power generation and mountaintop removal coal mining in general.

Police arrested all the activists and their supporters, 12 people in all. For updates and more information, visit the Blue Ridge EF! web site. See photos here and here.

It was a busy week for coal opponents. Earlier in the week, Greenpeace crashed a coal conference by co-sponsoring it via a front group, while a county judge rejected a permit for a new coal plant in Georgia, citing global warming concerns.