1. Crisis is in the
Eye of the Beholder
Christopher Miller, President
The Piedmont Environmental Council
June 3, 2014

2. Follow best practices, but keep in
mind…
 The closer you are to the impact, the
more you tend to think something is a
crisis
 Often in our work, there isn’t a major
crisis… but a series of mini-crises

3. Stormwater Management
– During Hot Lane Construction

5. Waterloo Bridge

6. Morgan’s Ford Bridge

7. Spectra Energy—
Gas Pipeline Proposal

8. Spectra Energy— Gas Pipeline Proposal (Zoomed in)

9. Trans-Allegheny Interstate Transmission Line

10. The Right of Way Clearing Required
for a Transmission Line Corridor
Would be 150-200 ft

11. What would a 500-kV power
line look like in the Northern
Virginia Piedmont?

12. Beautiful Stone Wall?

13. With a 500 kV line crossing

14. We’ve found that people in crisis crave
information
 Be the group that provides information
 Be the group that provides visuals
 Be the group who can tell a story
 Be the group who provides a way to act

15. What if the crisis hasn’t happened
yet?
 Case Study: Lifting the ban on uranium mining
in Virginia

19. Historic Leases and Public Water
Supplies

21. Sediment Washed Into the Bay from the
hurricane and tropical storms

24. Questions