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Alert: March 24 Valley Link Buckingham Smoke and Mirrors Event
Contact: Kenda Hanuman, hanumankenda2025@gmail.com, 434-969-1586Chad Oba, chado108@icloud.com, 434-806-6332 Friends of Buckingham (FOB) has been to Dominion’s Dog and Pony show before. Their engineers knew less than we did about their proposals and the real impacts...
ALERT: March 24 Valley Link Buckingham Smoke and Mirrors Event
Contact: Kenda Hanuman, hanumankenda2025@gmail.com, 434-969-1586 Chad Oba, chado108@icloud.com, 434-806-6332 Friends of Buckingham (FOB) has been to Dominion’s Dog and Pony show before. Their engineers knew less than we did about their proposals and the real...
Louisa County Unanimously Opposes Electric Transmission Line
The Louisa County Board of Supervisors (BoS) unanimously approved a motion to oppose the Joshua Falls-Yeat Electric Transmission Line Project — a 115-mile 765-kilovolt (kV) transmission line that is planned to cut through 20 miles in Louisa County — and present a...
Riverstone Solar Construction Town Hall, March 4th
The next Riverstone Solar town hall is tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4th, 5 pm–7pm at the Arvonia Fireman’s Building. This is the fourth quarterly meeting. Developer representatives will be present. Construction is currently on hold, and representatives have said it is...
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Problems with Industrial-scale Solar
Solar News
Watch the webinar from Friends of Buckingham, recorded April 25, 2025, to learn from a panel of experts about the Dark Side of Industrial-Scale Solar. Please share this widely.
Earth Month –
The Dark Side of Industrial-Scale Solar
Industrial-Scale Solar in Spotsylvania County, VA
(Photo by Hugh Kenny. The Piedmont Environmental Council)
Solar energy must not come at the expense of nature or communities. But that is what is happening in Buckingham and across Virginia as industrial solar projects replace our forests and working lands.
- Deforestation and bulldozing that forever changes the land.
- Wildlife destroyed and habitats lost.
- Waterways harmed.
- Erosion and sediment to wetlands and waterways.
- Largest land-use change ever.
- Enormous industrial projects inserted into rural communities.
- Forestry and forestry dependent jobs lost.
We must change course. We must save our forests and working lands by putting large-scale solar projects in the built-world. Places like parking lots, rooftops, brownfields, and already developed lands. Read more about the solar issues of our times.
Scott Flood, president of Friends of Buckingham, speaking at our 10th anniversary celebration.
Celebrating 10 Years of Successes
The Friends of Buckingham
10-year anniversary celebration and annual meeting
November 16, 2024
Use this link to watch the slide show of our many accomplishments from the past year.
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Stopping the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
After more than seven years fighting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, we WON!
Read about our successful efforts to protect the natural wonders of Virginia.
Media Center
Chris Landry’s documentary, Not On This Land, focuses on bout the remarkable people who stopped the Atlantic Coast Pipeline from being built.
Ben Price presents to the Buckingham Board of Supervisors 11/15/22: Adopt both a rights-based ordinance to protect our freedom from toxic trespass and a land-use ordinance. Start at 16:50. Stay on for our awesome public comments.