Friends of Buckingham welcomes the invitation to attend Dominion’s Community Advisory Group meetings, beginning Wednesday, September 30, at 11:30 a.m., at the Buckingham County Administration Building/annex. We will continue to express our dedication to preserve Buckingham’s historic, rural character and to oppose the industrial 40,645 h.p. (and growing) compressor station and 42” high-pressure Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
While the invitation is for input from Dominion-chosen organizations, the public is welcome to attend to gain insight into this, so-far, one-sided PR campaign by the industry.
We ask that the Farmville Herald’s proposed public forum (see story at: http://www.farmvilleherald.com/2015/09/pipeline-forum-is-needed-in-buckingham/ )
be facilitated by an independent and neutral entity, and be held immediately. Both sides of the issue would be addressed in a fair and balanced exchange. This public event would include the latest scientific evidence of the health and environmental impacts of hazardous levels of methane gas and other toxins emitted through routine operations of compressor stations. Dominion Power, as the corporation acting under a limited liability status, would be required to publicly disclose the scientific evidence of the environmental, health, economic, and safety impacts of proximity to compressor stations. Both scientists and citizens living in high impact zones for compressor stations and new pipelines will be given time to present other evidence of environmental, health, economic and safety hazards, including new pipeline failure rates and leakage data as well as the presentation of the latest environmental, health, economic, and safety information.
We request that all modes of notification of the public forum in Buckingham be undertaken, in print and news media, door-to-door, public posters, online, and by mail by elected representatives.
Friends of Buckingham considers the seizures of private land through eminent domain to be a loss of our constitutional rights to use and enjoy our land for our own economic benefit, health, and happiness; the ACP and compressor station, instead, expose county residents and private property owners to hazardous, traumatizing living conditions and alienation from our property against our will.
Kenda Hanuman
Friends of Buckingham
Thank you Hanuman for your sound request. Sad that this kind of public forum is not standard protocol for all public and private proposals. Whatever we do affects other lives. We would all benefit by reviving this ancient ethic of considering all actions and their impacts not just for today, or for local concerns, but for the entire globe, and unto “the seventh generation.”