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The Friends of Buckingham have worked for more than seven years to protect our lands from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Our efforts were successful!
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
Press Release: Letter of Support for Justice for Union Hill, with support from Karenna Gore and others 12-8-18
Residents of Union Hill today sent an open letter to the members of the State Air Pollution Control Board urging them to deny the proposed permit for a natural gas compressor station in this predominantly African-American community in rural Buckingham County, Va....
Big company, big dollars, small community: Dominion deal sparks dissent in community facing gas project
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Chad Oba huddled on a narrow median strip, bundled against the falling snow. Passing cars honked at the sign she was holding, and behind her a crowd of fellow protesters chanted outside the local office of Dominion Energy as police stood watch. For...
Erasing black lives: Dominion Energy misleads Virginia Air Pollution Board regarding demographics of Union Hill
On November 16, 2018 the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Dominion Energy compiled a demographic and income profile for the area of Union Hill in Buckingham County, VA. The report came after the Virginia Air Pollution Board delayed an important vote on the air pollution...
Panel to take closely watched vote on pipeline station
In this Thursday, Nov. 6, 2018 photo, Richard Walker, an Atlantic Coast Pipeline opponent, poses at a community center in Richmond, Va. Walker says his great-grandfather bought a 25 acre homestead in Union Hill, the site of a proposed compressor station, for $15 in...
Local pipeline fighters indifferent on Mountain Valley Pipeline lawsuit
Mountain Valley Pipeline RICHMOND, Va. - Attorney General Mark Herring and the Department of Environmental Quality has filed a lawsuit against the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The filing sites repeated environmental violations in Craig, Franklin, Giles, Montgomery and...
Pipeline construction suspended, again
MONTEREY — Following a court order today, Dec. 7, Dominion filed notice with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that it is suspending construction along the entirety of the 600-mile route of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, except as needed for safety and...
ABRA Update #208 – 12/6/2018
Thursday has arrived and it’s time for our weekly news dump. We heard we might get some snow this weekend to here’s something to keep you warm (or hot under the collar) until next week! Fourth Circuit is Asked to Stay ACP’s Fish and Wildlife Permit A motion to stay...
How money stokes divide of historic black community in Virginia pipeline battle
Neighbors and families are pitted against one another over a natural gas pipeline project in Union Hill. In the end, who stands to lose? 'Dominion thought they can just come in and we'd all roll over,' said Ruby Laury, a cattle farmer with her husband in the Union...
YOGAVILLE STATEMENT OF CONCERN
Satchidananda Ashram-Yogaville is seriously concerned by Gov. Northam’s dismissal of VA State Air Pollution Control (air board) Board members who expressed concern re: environmental justice On Nov 15, VA Governor Ralph Northam replaced two members of the air board....
The Power Behind the Pipelines: Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Oldies but goodies: June 2017. Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC is proposing the approximately 600-mile unidirectional, open access Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) to transport Marcellus-Utica shale gas from West Virginia, through Virginia, and ending in North Carolina....
Other Environmental Issues
Pipeline rupture spews oil into creek 150 miles from Standing Rock
Electronic monitoring equipment failed to detect a pipeline rupture that spewed more than 176,000 gallons of crude oil into a North Dakota creek, according to the pipeline’s operator, about 150 miles from the site of the Standing Rock protests. The potential for a...
4 million Americans could be drinking toxic water and would never know
RANGER, Texas — The leaders of this former oil boom town never gave 2-year-old Adam Walton a chance to avoid the poison. It came in city water, delivered to his family’s tap through pipes nearly a century old. For almost a year, the little boy bathed in lead-tainted...
Rapid rise in methane emissions in 10 years surprises scientists
Rapid rise in methane emissions in 10 years surprises scientists. Methane warms planet 20 times as much as similar CO2 volumes but lack of monitoring means scientists can’t be sure of sources. Scientists have been surprised by the surge, which began just over 10 years...
The Undeniable Truth About Coal
West Virginia sits atop a treasure chest of coal resources. Coal began to define the state’s culture, history, and the economy as early as 1742, when John Peter Salling unearthed the coal in present-day Boone County, West Virginia. Today, all but 4.5% of the state’s...
Washington first state to sue agrochem giant Monsanto over vast PCB pollution
The Japan Times SEATTLE – Washington on Thursday became the first U.S. state to sue the agrochemical giant Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades....
Survey Finds GOP Voters Overwhelmingly Favor Renewables, Clean Energy
December 9, 2016 - Dan Heyman, Public News Service (VA) Play Audio in Browser Window A new poll finds strong support among conservatives for policies supporting renewables and clean energy, and waning support for coal and nuclear power. (Evan Hansen) RICHMOND, Va. -...
Soon-To-Expire Health Benefits For Coal Miners Are At The Center Of The Government Funding Fight
The Huffington Post WASHINGTON ― After more than a year of stalling, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday pushed to extend health benefits for retired coal miners and their widows in a government funding bill lawmakers hope to take up this week. A...
Dakota Access company takes its battle to finish oil pipeline to court
Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, has responded to the Army Corps of Engineers’ denial of a key permit by asking a federal judge to allow it to drill under the Missouri river immediately. The court filing came as thousands of...
Army will not grant easement for Dakota Access Pipeline crossing
By U.S. Army December 4, 2016 Army POC: Moira Kelley (703) 614-3992, moira.l.kelley.civ@mail.mil The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, the Army's Assistant...
How You Can Help Standing Rock…It’s Not What You Think!
By Dave Room on Wednesday November 30th, 2016 Let’s come together and culture hack our oil dependence to stop all the pipelines, starting with Standing Rock. One of the most frustrating things about halting pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure projects...
Environmental Justice
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League Sues to Block Natural Gas Compressor Station in Buckingham County
From the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League: GROUPS SUE COUNTY TO BLOCK COMPRESSOR STATION Today the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League announced that it, together with its local chapter Concern for the New Generation, has filed a lawsuit opposing the...
Ernie Reed to run for Nelson supervisor seat, Brennan to step down
Faber resident Ernie Reed has announced his candidacy for the Nelson County Board of Supervisors’ Central District seat. Reed, president of Friends of Nelson, a group dedicated to opposing the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, is running as a Democrat. Connie Brennan,...
Supervisors being ‘rightly sued’
Editor: I am responding to the article on Feb. 12 regarding the lawsuit against Buckingham County supervisors for their approval of a special use permit for a compressor station for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (“Supervisors, ACP face suit over compressor station,”...
Pipeline document ‘violates the public’s trust’
As an Atlantic Coast Pipeline project opponent, I must point out some critically shoddy work in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Atlantic Coast Pipeline Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) analysis. In a Farmville Herald article, titled “FERC:...
‘The board that ruined Buckingham’
On Jan. 5, the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors showed its lack of concern for the health and safety of its citizens, preserving the flavor and history of the area or honoring the property of landowners. They ignored scientific research, national trends and the...
If the Sabal Trail Pipeline Goes Online it will be an Environmental Justice Disaster Celebrate MLK Weekend by Stopping it on January 14
By now, you’ve likely heard that there is a fracked gas pipeline under construction through the Southeast U.S. In the wake of effective opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their allies at the Missouri River crossing in...
Washington first state to sue agrochem giant Monsanto over vast PCB pollution
The Japan Times SEATTLE – Washington on Thursday became the first U.S. state to sue the agrochemical giant Monsanto over pervasive pollution from PCBs, the toxic industrial chemicals that have accumulated in plants, fish and people around the globe for decades....
Feds target methane leaks on public land
BY DEVIN HENRY - 11/15/16 12:05 PM EST Regulators have finalized a rule cracking down on methane leaks at natural gas drilling sites on federal land. The rule, released Tuesday by the Interior Department, updates 30-year-old regulations on methane venting, flaring and...
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BY-LAWS AND RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURES
http://www.buckinghamcountyva.org/Board%20Minutes/2015/January%2012,%202015.pdf BUCKINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BY-LAWS AND RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURES CREATION BUCKINGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS JANUARY 12, 2015 The Buckingham County Board of...
BY-LAWS BUCKINGHAM COUNTY PlANNING COMMISSION
http://www.buckinghamcountyva.org/Planning%20Commission%20Packets/2016/PC%20P By-Laws Article 1-Objectives 1-1. The Buckingham County Planning Commission was established in conformance with aresolution adopted by the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors on February...