Book Event: Gaslight by Jonathan Mingle

Join us on Thursday, June 13 @ Staunton Public Library @ 6:30PM for an evening with Jonathan Mingle, author of Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future, a chronicle of the efforts of the citizens of the Shenandoah Valley and Allegheny highlands to derail Dominion Energy's Atlantic Coast Pipeline from 2014 - 2020. Vivid and suspenseful, gut-wrenching and insightful, Gaslight is more than the chronicle of a turning point in American history. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the dark, overlooked story of America’s “favorite fossil fuel,” and the immense future stakes of the energy choices we face today. Since Augusta County was slated to have more miles of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (57) than any other community along the 600 mile long route that started in W.Va., went across Virginia and then deep in N.C., much of this book is about Staunton's own community and how we, collectively, stopped a massive corporation. Presentation in association with Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley.

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About the Book:

Imagine one day you receive a letter in the mail that informs you that a large energy company is planning to build a massive pipeline through your property. That surveyors will be coming out soon. That they have the legal right to do so, whether you like it or not, because this project is in the “public interest”—because the pipeline will be carrying natural gas, the so-called “bridge fuel” that politicians on both sides of the aisle have been peddling for decades as the path to a clean, green energy future.

Jonathan Mingle's Gaslight is more than the chronicle of a turning point in American history. Vivid and suspenseful, gut-wrenching and insightful, it is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the dark, overlooked story of America’s “favorite fossil fuel,” and the immense future stakes of the energy choices we face today.

About the Author:

Jonathan Mingle is a freelance writer and journalist. As a 2020 recipient of the Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, he reported on political, policy, and grassroots battles over natural gas (aka methane) infrastructure and its local and global climate consequences. He has written about climate change impacts and solutions, air pollution and public health, energy and resource issues, development and technology, and much more for a range of outlets, including The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Slate, Undark, Yale Environment 360, and The Boston Globe.