ACP Archives
The Friends of Buckingham have worked for more than seven years to protect our lands from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Our efforts were successful!
An archive of what went into this remarkable environmental accomplishment follows.
Pipelines & Compressor Stations
The fight against the ACP
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Film Screening: “Not On This Land”: The Fight Against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Appalachian Voices and the Southern Environmental Law Center sponsored the documentary film “Not On This Land: The Fight Against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline.” The premiere film screening was on Wednesday evening, April 12, 2023 at the Buckingham Community Center in...
Farmville Herald: County can avoid gold mining, officials say!!!
Wow! Buckingham Board of Supervisors can do the right thing and protect the county from industrial gold mining! #Ourpointexactly So sayeth Joe Lerch, the director of local government policy for the Virginia Association of Counties at the meeting of the State Agency...
FoB joins the ACP Archives Project
Thanks to Friends of Nelson, and specifically Ellen Bouton, an archives project of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline saga was started in the fall of 2020. Once the project was organized, Friends of Buckingham was invited to join. This article is the story of this project. I...
The Fight Against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: A Chronicle
"The paper documents many of the significant developments in the six-year opposition effort against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Its nearly 170 pages chronicles over 400 individual developments with over 500 links to regulatory documents, legal challenges, court...
The Fight Against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: A Chronicle
"The Fight Against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline: A Chronicle" describes in detail significant developments associated with the six year opposition effort against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, from when the project was first proposed by Dominion Energy in early 2014...
Landowners United to Stop Pipelines
In case you missed -- it or would like to view the program again, here's the link to the recording of the Pipeline Fighters Hub's April 12 webinar, "Landowners United to Stop Pipelines": *View the webinar recording*. The program featured...
After The Deluge: Court Cases Go from Bad to Worse for Mountain Valley Pipeline
On April 7, Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile partly constructed pipeline that would carry highly pressurized fracked natural gas from West Virginia to Virginia, was in federal court again, this time in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. After losing a...
Virginia regulatory board denies Mountain Valley Pipeline compressor station permit
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, State Air Pollution Control Board, Decision Minor New Source Review Permit for Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC, Lambert Compressor Station (MVP) Registration No. 21652: Excerpt: The Board...3) determined that the site is not...
Join the MVP ‘Violation Vigil’ Project Saturday December 11, 2 pm Richmond, VA
The Violation Vigil is a collaborative art project that gives poignant, visual and aural representation to the hundreds of water violations at the hands of Mountain Valley Pipeline. It is an invitation to stand in solidarity with the communities facing the MVP, and is...
3 Op Ed’s about the Mountain Valley Pipeline: Karenna Gore, Senator Ghazala Hashmi & Karen Campblin and Dr Samantha Ahdoot
Four Stellar Women speak out against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Give a listen. OpEd from Karenna Gore regarding denial of MVP's VA 401 permit, and the anniversary of the Clean Water Act: The common wealth of water In the final months of 2021, a decision is...
Other Environmental Issues
Industrial solar fields: Big is Bad, Small is Beautiful
Thanks to Scott Flood for the updates around the state on how industrial solar is going - not so well. Photo: Spotsylvania industrial solar field Mecklenburg County Board denies Antler’s Road solar project appeal...
Industrial solar mega projects failures and what could be in store for the James River
Thanks to Scott Flood for this article and keeping us alert to these pressing concerns. On November 14, 2022, EPA and DOJ announced 1.34 million in settlements to resolve Clean Water Act violations at four large-scale solar construction sites in Alabama, Idaho and...
Draft report warns gold mine could be “serious threat” to Buckingham
Brian Carlton, the new editor at the Farmville Herald, has been doing great coverage of the gold mining issue in Buckingham. This article covers the draft report that is being prepared by the State Agency Committee on the study of the impacts of industrial gold mining...
Permit hearing: Riverstone LLC industrial solar facility
This article is in 4 parts. Part #1: updates and summary of the industrial scale Riverstone Solar project in Buckingham, southeast of Scottsville. Part #2 is the information about the upcoming public meeting on Tuesday June 7, 6 pm at the Buckingham VFW. Part #3 is a...
State panel studies potential impact of gold mining in Virginia
The State Agency gold mining study work group meeting on Monday May 16 caught the attention of Joe Dashiell, senior reporter for WDBJ7 TV out of Roanoke and Richmond. Joe managed to distill well the essentials of the advisements of speaker Steve Emerman. From the...
Two Solar power articles – good coverage
Five takeaways from the landmark Virginia Solar Survey Report on solar’s spread is first of its kind in Virginia After a slow start, solar has been booming in Virginia. From having zero large-scale solar farms in 2015, the commonwealth now has 51 in operation, with...
CAN WE GET CLEAN ENERGY WITHOUT DIRTY MINES?
In 2021, global sales of electric vehicles more than doubled. This year, automakers are projected to make another huge gain, driven by soaring gas prices and new models with increased range. Getting away from gas-powered vehicles is essential to transition to a clean...
The Virginia EnvironmentalJustice Collaborative’s (VEJC) annual “ON CURRENT WATCH” W 3/9, 11 AM
Support our efforts towards achieving environmental justice in Virginia. VEJC's purpose is to identify environmental justice communities across the state, to develop EJ leadership, to provide room at the table for these organizations in statewide policy discussions...
Utility Solar Vs. Community Solar
What are the pros and cons to Utility Scale Solar versus Community Solar? Many communities are facing these challenges as we move to decarbonize our energy sources. There have been a couple of community scale solar permits passed in Buckingham recently. The large,...
Several articles on extraction: gold, lithium; the dirty side of ‘clean’ energy
A tiny Alaska town is split over a goldmine. At stake is a way of life In Haines, where the salmon once leaped under snow-capped mountains, a massive mining project promises well-paid jobs – and threatens a fragile ecosystem by Dominic Rushe in Haines, Alaska, for The...
Environmental Justice
State panel studies potential impact of gold mining in Virginia
The State Agency gold mining study work group meeting on Monday May 16 caught the attention of Joe Dashiell, senior reporter for WDBJ7 TV out of Roanoke and Richmond. Joe managed to distill well the essentials of the advisements of speaker Steve Emerman. From the...
The Virginia EnvironmentalJustice Collaborative’s (VEJC) annual “ON CURRENT WATCH” W 3/9, 11 AM
Support our efforts towards achieving environmental justice in Virginia. VEJC's purpose is to identify environmental justice communities across the state, to develop EJ leadership, to provide room at the table for these organizations in statewide policy discussions...
3 Op Ed’s about the Mountain Valley Pipeline: Karenna Gore, Senator Ghazala Hashmi & Karen Campblin and Dr Samantha Ahdoot
Four Stellar Women speak out against the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). Give a listen. OpEd from Karenna Gore regarding denial of MVP's VA 401 permit, and the anniversary of the Clean Water Act: The common wealth of water In the final months of 2021, a decision is...
A historically Black town stood in the way of a pipeline – so developers claimed it was mostly white
When residents in Union Hill, Virginia, decried the pipeline as a form of environmental racism, the energy company insisted it wasn’t As fracked gas fields in West Virginia boomed over the past decade, energy companies jumped at the chance to build massive new...
Glick Names Montina Cole to Top Environmental Justice Post at FERC
Our very own Montina!!! Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard Glick today announced the appointment of Montina Cole to serve as Senior Counsel for Environmental Justice and Equity, effective June 1, 2021. Cole, a seasoned executive and attorney...
Determining Disparate Impacts in Environmental Justice Communities: Does Friends of Buckingham v. State Air Pollution Control Board Provide the Roadmap?
It has long been recognized that minority and disadvantaged communities are subject to higher levels of pollution than more affluent non-minority areas. This fact is the basis of the need for Environmental Justice to ensure that the past disparate impacts to these...
Brown Grove: An historic Virginia community is running out of time.
The community of Brown Grove in Hanover County is knitted together by a single ancestor, a freedwoman named Caroline Morris, who helped found the community during the Reconstruction. Now, all these years later, Caroline’s descendants are still battling injustices....
Advocacy group calls for enslaved builders of Charlottesville to be honored
There is an Elephant in the civic living room of Charlottesville Virginia, says Honor-Slave-Block Advocacy Group. This is article is written by Freeman Allan, HSB/Slave Museum Secretary; Author; Researcher; Iconologist; Social Justice Activist This month marks twenty...
Union Hill makes history—again
It’s been a busy several years in usually quiet Buckingham County. In Virginia’s rural and mostly Black community of Union Hill, the people who—not so long ago—staved off a massive natural gas pipeline’s polluting compressor station proposed on the same land their...
Sun Sing in Place Concert Series
Join ARTivism Virginia’s SUN SiNG Collective for their sixth and final concert in this series, which was on June 18. The week’s focus was on environmental justice, the fight to protect Union Hill and the Poor People’s Campaign and featured guest speaker Reverend Dr....