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.
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Pipelines & Compressor Stations
‘Ugly episode:’ Northam allies slam his decision to alter board before Dominion vote
RICHMOND — Gov. Ralph Northam (D) promised to be a different kind of politician, one who would never lie and always operate aboveboard. But his interference in a controversial vote by air pollution regulators has caused some to question those claims. [A pragmatist in...
Charlottesville Protest Air Quality Board Changes
Two dozen people braved a cold, windy afternoon to protest in front of Dominion’s office in Charlottesville. Sandy Hausman reports Alia Stewart-Silver and Hayden Shaw protest the removal of two Air Quality Board members who opposed the pipeline. Standing along one of...
Stand with Union Hill Concert of Prayer
The "Stand with Union Hill Concert of Prayer" will be an all night interfaith prayer vigil with music and story on the eve of the Dec. 10 Air Board Meeting & Vote on Union Hill Compressor Station *** when the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board may approve or...
I Can’t Breathe: Ralph Northam Takes Off the Mask and Reveals He Works for Dominion Energy
On November 15, in a brazen power play that has been described as the “Thursday Night Massacre,” Governor Ralph Northam fired two members of the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board. The reason: six days earlier, these public servants publicly questioned whether a...
Gov. Northam names new members to state air, water boards as pipeline opponents fume
Demonstrators outside the governor's offices on Broad Street in Richmond Friday protest Gov. Ralph Northam's decision to remove two members of the State Air Pollution Control Board as it weighs a crucial permit for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. (Virginia Pipeline...
Delegate Mark Keam on Gov Northam’s decision to replace 2 air board members: “I am hoping that this is nothing but a very badly botched personnel decision made in the worst possible timing.”
For the past several months, I’ve been vocal about my opposition to the two proposed fracked gas pipelines being proposed in Virginia, one of which is owned by Dominion Energy. I’ve joined hundreds of Virginians in raising our specific concerns to Governor Ralph...
Comprehensive Exposé of Dominion Energy’s History of Clean Energy Obstruction in Virginia
Food & Water Watch gathers coalition of clean energy advocates to announce visionary Off Fossil Fuels by 2035 state bill announcement in light of shocking insights about Dominion’s dirty legacy We all need safe food and clean water. By Jackie Filson 11.15.18...
Responses from environmental groups to Northam’s egregious removal of 2 air board members
Statewide Conservation Groups Call on Northam to Reverse Decision to Replace Air Board Members During Pending Permit Decision FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, Nov. 15 Media Contacts: Claudine McElwain | cmcelwain@selcva.org | 434-977-4090 Lee Francis...
Northam removes 2 members from air board before Buckingham project vote
Gov. Ralph Northam is removing two members from the State Air Pollution Control Board, a move that comes less than a week after they raised concerns about a natural gas compressor station planned for a historic black community in Buckingham County and ahead of the...
With compressor station decision pending, Northam replaces two members of state air board
Gov. Ralph Northam will replace two members of the State Air Pollution Control Board and at least one member of the State Water Control Board more than four months after their terms ended. Notably, the decision to replace the two members of the air board — Rebecca...
Other Environmental Issues
The alliance for solar choice: Illinois energy bill passes without anti-solar, anti-consumer provisions Friday, Dec 02, 2016
Your Renewable News | The alliance for solar choice: Illinois energy bill passes without anti-solar, anti-consumer provisions Illinois legislators voted today to pass energy legislation (S.B. 2814) without anti-consumer, anti-solar proposals like mandatory demand...
30 Years of Oil and Gas Pipeline Accidents, Mapped
Sept. 9, 2010: A fire caused by an natural gas pipeline accident roars through San Bruno, California.(Paul Sakuma/AP) The increasingly brutal police response to protests over the construction of The Dakota Access Pipeline has pushed the debate over the safety of oil...
We Already Have A Solution To Climate Change, And It Doesn’t Rely On The Government
How can climate change be solved without the use of government?originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Paul Mainwood, former academic, on Quora: We already have a...
Study ties human actions to specific Arctic ice melt
By Seth Borenstain | The Japan Times WASHINGTON – Driving a gas-powered car about 1,300 kilometers melts about a square meter of Arctic sea ice in the critical month of September, according to a new study that directly links carbon pollution to the amount of ice...
An ‘Unprecedented’ 102 Million Trees Have Died In California’s Drought-Stricken Forests
Dominique Mosbergen | The Huffington Post In California’s drought-stricken forests, trees are dying at an “unprecedented” rate, according to officials. The U.S. Forest Service said last month that 102 million trees have died across the state since 2010, including 62...
November Was A Bad Month For Arctic Sea Ice. The Overall Picture Is Much Worse.
Ryan Grenoble | The Huffington Post If you stumbled across an alarming chart about sea ice on Twitter last month and doomsday scenarios immediately leaped into your head, you’re not alone. What the graph illustrates is true: There’s substantially less sea ice...
Cruise Line Slapped With $40 Million Fine For Deliberately Polluting
The Huffington Post | By Chris D'Angelo Carnival Corp.’s Princess Cruise Lines will plead guilty to seven felony charges and pay $40 million for deliberately polluting the ocean and attempting to cover up the crime, the Department of Justice said Thursday. The...
Group looks to restore church
A new group has formed to preserve, restore and celebrate the history of Alexander Hill Baptist Church in Buckingham — the oldest and first African-American church in the county. A Buckingham Circuit Court judge recently appointed Joseph Scruggs, Mary E. Brown Shelton...
Standing Rock: injured protester’s father says police account is ‘bogus nonsense’
Standing Rock: injured protester's father says police account is 'bogus nonsense' | US news | The Guardian Officers claim protesters set off explosion but Sophia Wilansky’s father and on-site medical professionals say injury is ‘entirely consistent’ with grenade blast...
Standing Rock Thanksgiving: a day of mourning, resistance and Jane Fonda
Standing Rock Thanksgiving: a day of mourning, resistance and Jane Fonda | US news | The Guardian Native Americans gathered at Standing Rock are approaching this Thanksgiving with deeply conflicted feelings. Do they observe the historically dissonant holiday,...
Environmental Justice
Guards for North Dakota pipeline could be charged for using dogs on activists
Guards for North Dakota pipeline could be charged for using dogs on activists | US news | The Guardian Private security guards who deployed dogs on protesters at a North Dakota oil pipeline demonstration were not properly licensed and could face criminal charges,...
23 citizens arrested at McAuliffe’s mansion – here’s why:
Founder and director Mike Tidwell of Chesapeake Climate Action Network had this to say. Yesterday, I had the honor of being arrested side-by-side with U.S. Army veteran Russell Chisholm of Newport, Virginia, taking a stand to stop fracked-gas pipelines and demand true...
23 arrested outside Gov. McAuliffe’s mansion during protest
By ALI ROCKETT Richmond Times-Dispatch Twenty-three people were arrested Wednesday for trespassing in front of the Executive Mansion following a peaceful, three-day protest urging Gov. Terry McAuliffe to reject a pair of proposed fracked-gas pipelines, require power...
Technology designed to detect U.S. energy pipeline leaks often fails
On a routine check of a surface coal mining facility in rural Alabama early this month, inspector Randall Aldridge first smelled gasoline. Then he saw dead plants and animals along a man-made pond that helps the region manage heavy rain. The cause had nothing to do...
Movie star joins pipeline protest as 10 arrested in heavily policed scene
MORTON COUNTY — A movie star on Thursday joined the largest protest yet to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from crossing the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Source: Movie star joins pipeline protest as 10 arrested in heavily policed scene
Farm Bureau helps landowners in pipeline eminent domain case
When Harrison County Farm Bureau members Carol Teter and John Lovejoy bought their 160-acre farm in eastern Ohio in 2001, they were looking for a quiet place to raise a few animals and live out the second half of their lives. What the couple didn’t anticipate...
Landowner says policy was broken
Published 3:03 pm Thursday, July 7, 2016 Farmville Herald by Jordan Miles A Buckingham County landowner says Dominion violated its own agreed-to survey process in work on the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline while the firm contents it followed the policy. Quinn...
Background on Buckingham County for Significance of FoB Proposal to CHEJ
Buckingham County faces the irony of being the only Virginia county already targeted for geometrically higher climate change and environmental health impacts to a front-line community from the sole 68 acre industrial complex compressor station, that is also targeted...
Dominion’s Pipeline Surveyors Trample Basic Rights and Decency
https://youtu.be/bvSOPGXWKTU "On the morning of May 17, 2016, a crew from Dominion/Atlantic Coast Pipeline [ACP] came onto my property to survey the proposed route of the pipeline in the Andersonville area of Buckingham County. Notice of this intrusion was made by an...
Break Free 2016 – Washington D.C. – YouTube